Sentences with phrase «surface water lakes»
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The agency downplayed the impact of the withdrawal, saying it would amount to only a 0.07 percent increase in total surface water withdrawal from Lake Michigan.
He reaches in and grabs all his hand will hold, turns towards the water and with all his strength throws his arm and releases the food feathering the still surface of the lake.
Onondaga County on Friday issued a blue - green algae advisory for Skaneateles Lake, urging people to «avoid contact with any algae blooms, surface scums, and colored water.»
Most people familiar with water quality problems in Buffalo were not surprised Thursday night when city officials issued a warning that a «harmful blue - green algae bloom» surfaced in Hoyt Lake at Delaware Park.
Onondaga County today issued a blue - green algae advisory for Skaneateles Lake, urging people to «avoid contact with any algae blooms, surface scums, and colored water.»
«The warming surface waters cause large parts of the lake's floor to lose oxygen, killing off bottom - dwelling animals such as freshwater snails,» Cohen said.
The waters of the lake are fluorescent green, and the stench of decay wafts from its surface.
Eventually, sometime about 2.5 billion years ago, the weight of the sediments caused the lake's icy ceiling to collapse, sending immense amounts of water to the surface, the researchers propose online this month in Icarus.
The Michigan Tech chamber works differently due to cloud mixing between a hot and cold surface, the same process that forms clouds or fog over a lake on fall days when the water temperature is warmer than the air temperature.
Surface waters become warm enough (in spring) or cool enough (in autumn) to reach 4 ° Celsius, the temperature at which these waters become dense and sink toward the lake's bottom, mixing the waters.
The Michigan Tech chamber creates clouds through cloud mixing between a hot and cold surface — the same process that forms fog over Portage Lake on fall days when the water temperature is warmer than the air temperature.
That's because when wind speed is low, lake water is more still, and algae can more easily float to the top and form thick mats that spread along the lake surface.
Water removed from 80 meters below the surface of Lake Ontario is pumped through three pipes to the Toronto Island Filtration Plant and treated to meet drinking water standWater removed from 80 meters below the surface of Lake Ontario is pumped through three pipes to the Toronto Island Filtration Plant and treated to meet drinking water standwater standards.
«The predicted changes in surface water temperatures will affect the thermal characteristics of the lakes,» said Dokulil.
In spring, using the Great Lakes as an example, the cold surface waters begin to warm; when they reach 4 °, they become dense enough to sink.
Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe.
Lakes cycle carbon between the water's surface and the atmosphere.
It quickly became clear that this was an environment sealed away from the earth's surface, and although the water in the lake may itself be slowly changed out by the deep - ice dynamics of Antarctica, this process could take well over 10,000 years.
As many surface melt - water lakes form each summer around the Greenland ice sheet, the possibility exists that similar subglacial lakes may be found elsewhere in Greenland.
The researchers propose that, unlike in Antarctica where surface temperatures remain below freezing all year round, the newly discovered lakes are most likely fed by melting surface water draining through cracks in the ice.
The apparent absence of lakes in Greenland had previously been explained by the fact that steeper ice surface in Greenland leads to any water below the ice being «squeezed out» to the margin.
Schimdt has found evidence that warm ocean currents and convective forces beneath Europa's frozen shell can cause large blocks of ice to overturn and melt, bringing vast pockets of water, sometimes holding as much liquid as all of the Great Lakes combined, to within several kilometers of the moon's icy surface.
According to a painstaking satellite survey of 1.3 million lakes stretching from coast to coast, the country lost 6700 square kilometres — or 1.2 per cent — of its water surface area between 2000 and 2009.
In the mid-1990s, a lake containing 1,300 cubic miles of water (as much as Lake Michigan) was detected 12,000 feet below the surface of the ice in East Antarctica, beneath where the Russians had spent years drilling into the ice sheet to study its histlake containing 1,300 cubic miles of water (as much as Lake Michigan) was detected 12,000 feet below the surface of the ice in East Antarctica, beneath where the Russians had spent years drilling into the ice sheet to study its histLake Michigan) was detected 12,000 feet below the surface of the ice in East Antarctica, beneath where the Russians had spent years drilling into the ice sheet to study its history.
Globs of decomposed fish flesh recently rose from deep in the Salton Sea, coagulated into spheres on the lake surface and surfed the waves to shore, leaving the high - water line littered with thousands of sticky balls of fish
In the realm of research, academic hydrogeologists are broadening their time horizons to help forecast and mitigate the effects of climate change, and they're stretching the traditional boundaries of their field to explore questions such as how groundwater interacts with the surface water of lakes and rivers.
Her real breakthrough is finding the mechanism by which molecules on Europa's surface could unite with water and energy in the lakes, and maybe even in the vast, deeper ocean.
She was suggesting that Europa's ocean was not its only source of liquid water; the moon also harbored hidden lakes far closer to vital molecules on the surface, perhaps close enough to support miniature habitable ecosystems.
These lakes could also be hotbeds for life, since molecules embedded in surface ice could easily get dumped into the water when the ice collapses.
Evaluation of the area where this lake existed shows the expansion and contraction of this groundwater - linked body of surface water.
Nested within this landscape are surface waters that include lakes and rivers, Chipps pointed out.
Lakes may form when meteorite impacts heat ice in the crust or when underground reservoirs of water kept liquid by geothermal heat leak onto the surface.
In fact the lakes are small, so he is convinced that most ofTitan's methane lies under the surface, mixed with water and ammonia, which keeps the water from freezing.
Pharmaceuticals in surface water such as lakes and streams are a growing concern.
If groundwater decreases, the sizes and depths of lakes decrease as well, so the size and diversity of lakes and rivers serve as a proxy for how close to the surface the water table — the top of the ground water — resides.
Joyce and his colleagues suggest instead that while surface waters of the ancient lake were oxygenated, deeper layers were oxygen - poor and possibly saturated with carbon dioxide or other toxic substances.
He and others say there is a risk that by disturbing the waters near the bottom of the lake, CO2 could bubble uncontrollably to the surface.
Despite the lake's thickly frozen surface, the water beneath is alive and kicking.
To distinguish between water quality impacts from groundwater and stormwater runoff from the St. Lucie Estuary versus other impacts directly related to periodic discharges from Lake Okeechobee, Lapointe and his collaborators conducted a comprehensive analysis of the interactions of septic systems, groundwater, and surface waters.
On Saturday, the drill had encountered water at about 3766 meters depth, but the team determined that it was a water lens sitting above the surface of the lake rather than the lake itself.
From my cabin I could see clear across the lake, and I had to remind myself that it had more water than America's five Great Lakes put together and a surface area larger than Belgium.
Artificial eyes deep below the surface of the lake look for dim flashes of blue light caused by a rare collision between a neutrino and a molecule of water.
Most previous studies have indicated the dominate role of water usage in changes in the lake surface area.
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Surface - water depletion in the Colorado River Basin has left this «bathtub ring» of mineral deposits on Lake Mead, but groundwater loss is invisible.
A lot of evidence points towards Mars being warm and wet early in its history; features that look like rivers, lakes and outflows have been spotted both from orbit and by rovers on the surface, and a lot of the planet's minerals contain water.
«With Lake Mead at its lowest level ever, we wanted to explore whether the basin, like most other regions around the world, was relying on groundwater to make up for the limited surface - water supply.
15:30 - 15:45 Unraveling groundwater and surface water interaction in Central Kenya Rift lakes: Implications for Paleohydrology Lydia A. Olaka, Andreas Musolff, Ulrich Kniess
On November 16, 2011, scientists announced that data from NASA's Galileo probe (which operated from 1989 to 2003) appear to reveal at least two bodies of liquid water the volume of the North America's Great Lakes underneath the surface ice of Europa.
For example, dropping a pebble in a lake will force the water to move away from its equilibrium — and that change will propagate across the surface of the lake.