Sentences with phrase «sees the sea surface»

Something similar happens when a scuba diver looks up and sees the sea surface acting as a mirror.

Instead we see Sea Surface Temperature climb, and at the same time Solar Sunspot activity declined.

Not exact matches

4c) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) 5c) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above (2nd day) 6c) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) 7c) green plant life appears on land (3rd day also) 8c) the cloud cover left over from the billions of years of rain finally condenses enough that a visible moon and sun can be seen from the earth's surface through the clouds (4th day) 9c) God creates sea life including fish and birds (5th day) 10c) God creates cattle and beasts (large land animals)(6th day) 11c) God creates man.

The result: Surface temperatures increased rapidly, especially in the Arctic, which saw its September sea ice cover shrink by 25 percent.

Now waves have a certain wavelength, and common experience of such waves as may be seen, for example, on the surface of the sea tells us that an object which is very much smaller than the length of the wave has no appreciable effect upon it.

«The exploration of the world's oceans has just begun... the next generation of deep - sea explorers may actually see, for the first time, more of the Earth's solid surface than all previous generations combined.

But a reduction in the number and intensity of large hurricanes driving ocean waters on shore — such as this month's Hurricane Joaquin, seen, which reached category 4 strength — may also play a role by cooling sea - surface temperatures that fuel the growth of these monster storms, the team notes.

DEEP DOWN One of the largest seas on Titan, Ligeia Mare, seen in this false - color radar image taken by the Cassini spacecraft, extends more than 200 meters below the moon's surface.

Hilary Wilson, EUMETSAT's Sentinel - 3 Project Manager added, «It is very exciting to see all the small scale thermal features clearly captured in the Benguela region and this really demonstrates the potential of the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer.

A new NASA visualization shows the 2015 El Niño unfolding in the Pacific Ocean, as sea surface temperatures create different patterns than seen in the 1997 - 1998 El Niño.

The rings in the ocean are cut in half by the sea surface, so we see the two ends of the half ring at the surface.

«Ever since the lakes and seas were discovered, we've been wondering why they're concentrated at high northern latitudes,» said Elizabeth (Zibi) Turtle, a Cassini imaging team associate based at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. «So, seeing that there's something special about the surface in this region is a big clue to help narrow down the possible explanations.»

Kevin Trenbeth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said the study didn't account for changes in sea surface temperatures, which are the main drivers of changes in the position of the rain belts (as is seen during an El Nino event, when Pacific warming pushes the subtropical jet over the Western U.S. southward).

With higher levels of carbon dioxide and higher average temperatures, the oceans» surface waters warm and sea ice disappears, and the marine world will see increased stratification, intense nutrient trapping in the deep Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean) and nutrition starvation in the other oceans.

The reason could be linked to rising sea surface temperatures — fueled in part by global warming — as seen in ocean buoy data collected along the U.S. coast.

Almost all of the hydrocarbon seas and lakes on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan cluster around the north pole, as can be seen in this mosaic from NASA's Cassini mission.

This simulation represents how sea surface temperature changes evolve as a hurricane (seen here approaching the U.S. East Coast) moves across the Atlantic and how the resultant cold wake affects subsequent intensification of the next hurricane.

Ultracold hydrocarbon lakes and seas (dark shapes) near the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan can be seen embedded in some kind of bright surface material in this infrared mosaic from NASA's Cassini mission.

If you were soaring above the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, you'd see mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas, but you might also run into a monsoon - like rainstorm.

Oceanographer Benjamin Hamlington set out to see if he could find an El Niño sea level rise signal around U.S. coasts, by putting together data from tide gauges and satellite altimeters, which measure sea surface heights.

This year has seen record high sea surface temperatures in the Nino3.4 region, the area of the Pacific Ocean where these events are commonly measured.

However, climate change is causing abnormally high sea - surface temperatures, which is causing corals to bleach during summer months (see below for detail).

Easily one of the most unique and visually striking movies you'll see in theaters this year is writer - director Dash Shaw «s My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea, an animated comedy with a mouthful of a title that only just scratches the surface.

Now, the following morning, the only things the Baudelaires had seen were the quiet, still surface of the sea and the gray gloom of the sky.

So far I have seen turtles, mantas, dolphins at the surface, sea snakes and much more!

But most people come to Isla Perro for snorkeling in and around the shipwreck gunboat that lies around 50 meters in front of the beach, when tide is low you can see it hitting the sea surface.

You may be fortunate enough to see a Steller Sea Lion swim by and, possibly most moving of all, is to be in a kelp forest, looking up at the surface, rockfish schooling around you.

Other Steller Sea Lions were seen fishing throughout the trip and could be seen consistently tearing apart Chum Salmon at the surface.

Possible sites include: Bandit Ledge: The gentle hills and ridges of this site support a surprising amount of beautiful cauliflower corals Garden Eel Cove: The slow drop - off ends in a sandy bottom covered with graceful garden eels Anglers: A beautiful archway housing a big family of lionfish High Rock: A massive ridge capped by a pinnacle rising to within 10 feet (approx. 3 meters) of the water's surface Anchor Drag: A maze of canyons, arches small caverns provide enjoyable exploration of the lobsters, crabs, shrimp and puffer fish who live here North Golden Arches: The main attraction is a rock arch with scattered coral heads throughout the area South Golden Arches: A large rock arch with a sandy area, housing numerous marine animals Harlequin: A great spot for a deep dive to see large schools of fish Kaloko Arches: The main attractions here are the unique rock outcroppings and lava formations Turtle Pinnacle: One of best sites to find green sea turtles Eel Cove: Interesting and rapid drop - off for deep diving Thunder Reef: Good spot for viewing deep - water animals West Kaiwi: This dive site is one of the best for observing fish, with lots of coral and a nearby drop - off Please note: This is not an introductory dive.

If you think that Los Cabos is stunning, just wait until you see the beauty below the surface of the Sea of Cortez.

Almost too much to take in on 10 dives let alone 1 See sea snakes sunbathing on the surface, variety of angel fish, bannerfish, cleaner shrimp, sweetlips, boxfish, fusiliers, and so much more.

Join them and see these playful and energetic giants of the sea as they breach from the water, only metres from the boat, and slap their tails on the ocean's surface in a friendly greeting.

You can also go out on a glass bottom boat where you won't even need to get wet and the children can see all the sea life happening below the waters surface.

January to March can see rougher surface conditions in the north, whereas July and August can bring rough seas to the southern sites.

Watch juvenile spotted drums skating figures - of - eight close to the surface and let's not forget our treasured sea turtles, unafraid to come up close to see their reflections in our masks.

Depending on the time of year, you may see whales surfacing, giant sea - rays dancing on the water, and almost always, a guaranteed gorgeous sunset.

If you download 1998 - 2009 cloud cover here, and sea surface temperatures here, you can see that, except for a cloud band from ~ 0 to 10 degrees N, cloudiness is generally less where SST is warmer, though there are lots of details and spatial variation that lessen the correlation.

Titled Sea / See / Saw, the work mimics the glistening surface of Istanbul's famous Bosphorus River, which symbolically and literally separates Asia from Europe.

Further, the solar signal can be seen in the sea surface temperature of the oceans, the amplitude of the solar signal can be as much as 0.3 K for some solar cycles.

It is widely realized that WWii saw changes in the construction of sampling buckets for sea surface temperature measurement, and many navies switching to water intake temperatures in compiling data from ships at sea.

These extraordinary creatures of the deep sea have until now almost always been seen this way — brought to the surface involuntarily or floating there dead.

But this is in a period that the Bureau has predicted is likely, based on statistical analysis of historical data and current sea surface conditions, to be warmer than the historical average (see here.

Hurricanes do have a deep surface mixing effect that normal tropical convection doesn't produce, and that would be expected to result in greater transfer of heat to the atmosphere, but it gets complicated in a hurry; see the realclimate discussion of the Walker circulation for example, as well as the link between hurricanes and sea surface temps.

You can see the current «cold blob» when looking at maps of the sea surface temperature for example on Climate Reanalyzer.

Hopefully, this bodes well for sea ice survival this summer, but as you will likely see if you look in once in awhile, the surface conditions change remarkably during the summer, and from the appearance you may appreciate the associated changes in the fraction of solar heating absorbed by the ice.

Also, if you look at Table T2 in this paper, you will see that ocean sea surface heat storage 0 - 700m from 1955 - 2003 (in W / m2) is always higher at northern latitudes than the corresponding southern latitudes in every case, even with the extensive Southern Ocean warming as noted by Gavin responding to # 18.

There seems to be little exchange in surface waters between the NH and SH (as good as is the case for air currents), see the main sea currents.

One thing I would have liked to see in the paper is a quantitative side - by - side comparison of sea - surface temperatures and upper ocean heat content; all the paper says is that only «a small amount of cooling is observed at the surface, although much less than the cooling at depth» though they do report that it is consistent with 2 - yr cooling SST trend — but again, no actual data analysis of the SST trend is reported.

If we had better sea level rise data for the whole period, we might see that the heat storage curve into the ocean had a shape that better matched the simple function approximation than the land surface data does, or we might have better information on internal climate modes that confused or delayed the temperature response.

One of about 90 labeled rubber ducks dropped into a natural drain hole on the Greenland ice sheet in 2008 by Alberto Behar in an effort to see if meltwater from the surface reached the sea.