Sentences with phrase «strong tidal»

The oil must be offloaded onto tankers there, then shipped through the «Second Narrows,» a shallow strait that is subject to strong tidal currents, and confined by the piers of a railway bridge.

Yet an anticipated influx of new residents will further strain existing energy sources, so city and state officials gave Verdant about $ 3 million to harness power from the river's strong tidal currents.

Can you not see that it is one thing to attribute a cyclone to climate change and quite another to suggest that such a strong cyclone coupled with a strong tidal surge could be part of a trend that is quite credible (though perhaps not 100 % established) based on scientific evidence?

Today, I float in the strong tidal currents of Peconic Bay on Long Island, still mesmerized by the fact that everything in the universe is adrift — galaxies, planets, continents, and even detritus that washes up on beaches.

To reach the lighthouse we had to cross Christie Passage, a narrow waterway with strong tidal currents.

East Railay beach has numerous economically - priced bungalows but the beach is unsuitable for swimming as there are lots of mangroves and strong tidal movement.

The tides fluctuate up to 18» between high & low tide creating a variety of conditions and strong tidal push.

The cut itself is about 9m deep and the occasionally strong tidal currents of Ambergris Caye provide a constant stream of food for the waiting filter feeders like the gorgonian sea fans and sponges that adorn the walls of the reef, which rises to the surface on either side sheltering turtles, crabs, morays and hundreds of small reef fish.

Strong tidal currents nourish this chain of life.

Alleppey has its own long stretch of sands, but boisterous waves and strong tidal currents mean that it is unsuitable for swimming.

Strong tidal currents flow in and out through the cut and are especially strong at mid-water in the center of the channel.

The Channel itself is about 30 ft (9 meters) deep, with occasionally strong tidal currents.

This means that in the cases of Uranus (and Neptune), objects can pass within close vicinity of the planet, where they experience extremely strong tidal forces.

The outskirts of our Galaxy contain various stellar streams that are believed to be the remnants of dwarf galaxies that were torn to shreds by the strong tidal force of the Milky Way.»

Researchers at the University of Western Australia have discovered that rising sea levels could reduce water temperature extremes among reefs that have strong tidal conditions.

In the paper, to be published by the journal Icarus, Quillen states that «strong tidal encounters» may be responsible for the cracks on icy moons such as Charon, Saturn's Dione and Tethys, and Uranus» Ariel.

The vibrations also show strong tidal triggering, with six times as many earthquakes during low tides as high tides while the volcano approached its eruption.

Pluto and Charon are locked into a synchronized orbit, always presenting the same face to each other, so they do not exert strong tidal forces.

A sizeable moon in retrograde orbit will, once captured, have a strong tidal effect on the primary (Neptune in this case) in such a way as to make the moon's orbit become both smaller and more nearly perpendicular to the primary's equator.

Caroline Nolan, the aquarium's general manager, says that strong tidal currents in the narrows which connect the lough to the sea stir up nutrients and give the waters a rich marine life.

It is rather early to speculate, but maybe Pluto captured Charon only a few hundred million years ago (rather than billions), and we are seeing the effect of the very strong tidal interactions that would have ensued.

Another approach operates at the bottom of New York City's East River, where in 2006 Verdant Power, Inc., planted six windmill - like turbines — each 16 feet (five meters) in diameter — 30 feet (nine meters) below the surface and churning at a peak rate of 32 revolutions per minute to transform strong tidal forces into electricity.

Hamers: «Gravity can cause strong tidal effects, just as the moon's gravity causes high and low tide on earth.

«In that crack you have strong tidal flow, so it would be interesting to see what a real ice sheet does in an environment that's analogous in terms of the amplitude of the stresses and the temperatures of the ice,» Kite said.

Its irregular orbit around the gas giant creates strong tidal forces within Io, causing its surface to rise and fall by as much as 100 meters.

The displaced residents said the strong tidal current has been an annual ritual affecting the community.

There's a strong tidal wave of liquidity looking for yield.

- Veronica The GypsyNesters recently posted... Whirling Around the Saltstraumen — the World's Strongest Tidal Flow

The preoccupation with focusing only on the visible surface of the earth, and disconnecting the strongest tidal and gravitational forces in the Earth / Moon system has lead to this misunderstanding of why the lunar tidal effects (when not considered) that produce the teleconnections seen in so many global circulation patterns leaves so many easy to answer questions.

Not exact matches

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«I believe that we're a brave country, we're a strong country, we're a country of great people, and the next election, I think we're going to see a tidal wave and I think you're going to see change.»

By absorbing the force of strong winds and tides, wetlands protect terrestrial areas adjoining them from storms, floods, and tidal damage.

The strong tides around these islands have led the European Union - funded European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) to use Orkneys» waters as the world's largest testbed for a renewable energy source that has been stalled for years: tidal power.

The doomed galaxies would have been pulled apart like taffy if they plunged through the center of the galaxy cluster where gravitational tidal forces are strongest.

Inside this limit, the planet's tidal forces are strong enough to disintegrate a body held together by its own gravity, thus explaining SL9's fragmentation.

No single strong hypothesis has taken the hot start's place, however, although suggestions include tidal pools or oceans covered by glaciers.

If this is compact enough, the strong, tidal gravitational forces tear the star apart in a spectacular way.

The kite and cable model is designed to facilitate placing tidal turbines in deep water, where the stronger current has the potential for providing greater power but also makes it extremely difficult to plant a turbine in the seabed.

Since a thinner ice shell retains less heat, the tidal effects caused by Saturn on the large fractures in the ice at the south pole are no longer enough to explain the strong heat flow affecting this region.

The great tidal forces in this region of very strong gravity were expected to tear the cloud apart and disperse it along its orbit.

Astronomers suspected that tidal forces, which arise because the Milky Way's gravity is stronger on one side of the cluster than on the other, could break up clusters — especially more diffuse ones.

Since the tidal effect is strongest when the moon is closest to the primary, it also tends to make the orbit more circular.

It is too faint to tell for now, but if Segue 2 has a tail of stars streaming away from it into the Milky Way, that's strong proof for the tidal stripping scenario, says Kirby.

«When you're so close to the star, tidal interactions become so strong that they can rip apart the surface of a planet and destroy it,» says Roberto Sanchis - Ojeda, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

By devising and running a new computer model, Quillen, a professor of physics and astronomy at Rochester, has now shown that the tidal pull exerted by another, similar object could be strong enough to crack the surface of such icy moons.

The dwarf elliptical galaxy SagDEG in the direction of the Milky Way's center is stretched and distorted from the tidal effects of the Milky Way's strong gravity.

[7] Mercury's surface is also flexed by significant tidal bulges raised by the Sun — the Sun's tides on Mercury are about 17 percent stronger than the Moon's on Earth.

Those calculations showed that tidal heating is strong enough that it could allow water to remain liquid under the surface of those objects.

One possibility is that the central star of Mz 3 has a closely orbiting companion that exerts strong gravitational tidal forces, which shape the outflowing gas.

Strong winds push the bay waters over low - lying shores, forming brackish tidal marshes among the short, salt - tolerant vegetation.