Sentences with phrase «surrounding ocean»

«The conditions in surrounding ocean waters is very informative when trying to understand what is and may soon be happening on reefs,» Eakin said.

«We need to pay careful attention to where melt and runoff is occurring and how it interacts with surrounding ocean currents, in addition to measuring the total amount of melt,» said Mote.

The effect is much less in Antarctica, whose thick ice cover is not easily changed, and whose climate depends largely on surrounding ocean currents, but warming has been seen in the Antarctic Peninsula.

Peacock and his team built a carbon - fiber resin scale model of the Luzon Strait, including the islands and surrounding ocean floor topography.

The finding indicates that large - scale changes are happening along the coast — because the source of the radium is the land and shallow continental shelves surrounding the ocean.

Just as the Moon pulls water around Earth, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are so massive that their gravitational fields pull surrounding ocean water.

Inhabited from about 650 AD, the Hawaiians fished the rough surrounding ocean by outrigger canoe with nets and spears for over 1200 years.

The Army had previously created a route to the area, but the old road had exceptionally steep grades, and in places it directly surrounded the ocean, which would block the road with two to three feet of sand after a storm.

That includes interacting with their Ocean Tagalong on a large LED screen (8» 3» tall by 53» 5» wide) that surrounds the Ocean Portal area where guests enter after clearing the security and check - in area.

The landscape surrounding the ocean front Inn by the Sea is planted with native materials selected to create habitat and food sources for local wildlife.

Ben Southall takes a deeper look at the myths surrounding the ocean's most misunderstood predator.

The restaurant's central «fire stage» grill station, raw seafood bar and several fish tanks bring the restaurant's preparations directly in view of diners, highlighting the very best of the surrounding ocean.

The Game Bird's menus will make full use of the diverse produce of Great Britain and its surrounding oceans: Clarence Court Eggs, Orkney sea scallops, Salt Marsh mutton and Lincolnshire smoked eel — to name a few.

So they're just getting their oxygen passively from the surrounding ocean water.

The very strong El Niño of 1982 - 83 temporarily warmed the surrounding ocean so much that most of the corals in the southern part of the Galápagos died, said co-author Julia Cole, who collected the coral cores while she was a faculty member at the UA.

While Antarctic ice shelves are in direct contact with both the atmosphere and the surrounding oceans, and thus subject to changes in environmental conditions, they also go through repeated internally - driven cycles of growth and collapse.

The Antarctic ice sheet, the thick layer of ice covering much of the continent, is anchored in place by its floating fringe, shelves of ice that jut out into the surrounding ocean.

Just before the Hell Creek sediments were deposited, about 68 million years ago, the seaway withdrew for good, leaving behind the configuration of continent and surrounding oceans that exists today.

The plan is to drop sensors into the surrounding ocean to measure water temperatures, then skim the ice for signs of changes in surface height.

But because the surrounding ocean would have been warmer, and stabilizing sea ice less abundant, the massive East Antarctic ice sheet may have contributed to higher sea levels by flowing more quickly towards the ocean.

Warmer air temperatures cause more water containing the heavier isotopes oxygen - 18 or deuterium to evaporate from the surrounding ocean.

Over the past 60 years, winter temperatures in the northwestern part of the peninsula have soared by 11 degrees F. Year - round temperatures have risen by 5 degrees F and the surrounding ocean is warming.

An unexpected coral bleaching event in the South China Sea shows that reefs can heat up substantially more than the surrounding ocean

The study, published in the American Geophysical Union's Geophysical Research Letters, is the first to document fine - scale changes taking place on the ice shelf that help maintain its natural balance with the surrounding ocean waters.

This provides important weather data, however they are mostly located around the coast, so leave vast areas of the continent and the surrounding oceans uncovered.

Under such conditions, ice sheets melt more strongly than when the surrounding ocean is thoroughly mixed.

The acetate is a product of methane and hydrogen from the alkaline hydrothermal vents and carbon dioxide dissolved in the surrounding ocean.

Over the years researchers have come up with a number of possible explanations: an ancient sea once covered the valleys; fierce winds carry the salt there from the surrounding oceans; the region sees a lot of hydrothermal activity; chemical or physical weathering of the rocks raises the concentration.

As ice melts in the austral summer, pools of water fill the cracks that inevitably develop in any floating ice shelf as a result of bending and squeezing by the surrounding ocean.

Tropical storms receive energy from their surrounding ocean waters.

In fact, the new research to be published in Nature on July 19 shows that less than 10 percent of the eddy's waters mixed with the surrounding ocean.

When Antarctica froze over it transformed the ecosystems in the surrounding oceans, and may even have driven the evolution of baleen whales

Then, by analysing the sediments for chemical fossils made by certain microscopic plants that live in sea ice and the surrounding oceans, Knies and his co-workers were able to fingerprint the environmental conditions as they changed through time.

«There is clear evidence for exhaustion of molybdenum in the water column, and this strongly indicates a closed environment, shut off from the surrounding ocean,» added Edel O'Sullivan.

In a paper published online today in Science, Chisholm's team reports that cyanobacteria secrete vesicles — small, membrane - enclosed sacs — into the surrounding ocean.

«Meltwater from Greenland is directed by the surrounding ocean currents, but its fate depends on when and where the runoff occurs and the wind fields driving ocean currents,» said study co-author Thomas Mote, Distinguished Research Professor of Geography at UGA.

Now, a team of researchers led by faculty at the University of Georgia has discovered the fate of much of the freshwater that pours into the surrounding oceans as the Greenland ice sheet melts every summer.

Ice loss seen in Antarctica is generally attributed to the well - documented rise in temperature of the surrounding ocean, but scientists are still puzzling out the mechanisms behind the regional variations that they are observing.

It currently discharges enough ice into the surrounding ocean to fill Lake Erie in just over a week.

The scientists have also found the VDVF system has a very energetic heat flux (the amount of energy it emits into the surrounding ocean) of around 500 megawatts.

Now Josh is pursuing one of the main topics in sea level research: the interactions between Greenland's marine - terminating glaciers and the surrounding ocean.

An Atlantic gale threatens to lift and blow us both out like October leaves, over the sheer cliff at our feet and across the bay 400 feet below, dropping us in the surrounding ocean.

Starting by heading up the Boulder Trail from behind the jetty, Summit Track takes in tropical rainforest and coastal woodlands before opening out to stunning views of the island and surrounding ocean.

These great winged creatures glide majestically in the warm shallows of the surrounding ocean, much to the delight of the divers and snorkelers that frequently explore the coral reefs that line the coast.

Together with an extensive area of the surrounding ocean they form the Komodo National Park.

Guests have the opportunity of practicing yoga in the spacious and airy wooden pavilion that overlooks the ocean and listening to the naturally enchanting sound of the surrounding oceans, birds and Costa Rica's signature howler monkeys.

The new map will feature the most easterly point of Australia, Cape Byron, as the centerpiece, with the surrounding ocean floor revealed.

And with a past that stretches back to time immemorial, history lovers could lose themselves in the thousands of stories scattered across the plains, buried in the sand and laying at the bottom of the surrounding oceans.