Sentences with phrase «swirling eddies»

The swirling eddies and currents of bias in local authority decisions (which have lured many an unwary municipal mariner to their doom) have finally been brought into some calm confluence by the Court of Appeal.

Not only do the oceans contain a maze of often shifting current systems, they are filled with turbulence that can be viewed on a scale of just a cubic centimeter to the thousands of swirling eddies a few hundred kilometers wide.

A bulge that forms in a NERP will spread westward, the researchers found, creating layers of water with different densities and allowing smaller, swifter, swirling eddies to form.

Known for his colorful «puddle» abstract paintings, Davenport brings brilliantly chromatic canvases, a spectrum of more or less evenly painted stripes cascading down before some unseen current disrupts their flow, transforming them into swirling eddies of colors mixing together.

He was especially captivated by the «Deluge» drawings, their swirling eddies of black chalk giving form to natural disasters.

Shifting currents, swirling eddies and shallow shoals have contributed to more than 100 shipwrecks and countless deaths in and around the islands and mainland shores.

Bourke's Luck Potholes are the result of decades of swirling eddies of water where the Treur River meets the Blyde River

Off the coast of West Africa, swirling eddies carry dead zones with remarkably low oxygen levels at shallow depths, according to an international study.

The currents caused by large, swirling eddies at the ocean's surface may reach all the way to the sea floor, a new study suggests.

As the study's authors wrote, this is where the strong Antarctic current becomes «a mess of swirling eddies» and meanders around its central path.

The tiniest contaminant — a speck of dust, a blade of grass — can disrupt a waterslide's flow, touching off larger irregularities that in turn create swirling eddies, and so on.

Now it seems swirling eddies in the ocean are mathematically the same — and could help to slow climate change.

I have decided to use one of the letters of St. Paul that addresses the most serious blight that presently exists among believers in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior: divisions within the powerful river of faith that are dividing us into swirling eddies and meandering tributaries.

Not exact matches

I can assure you that if you commit to a serious hour a day of hunting and applying, you'll get the same results as you would swirling in the eddy of Monster.com.

Furthermore, I reflect on these matters as a Protestant Christian whose theological views have been most deeply shaped by the Reformed theological current within the Protestant river, as that was channeled by nineteenth - century theological liberalism and then intersected first by that peculiar eddy in liberalism called «neo-orthodoxy» and then by various other theological eddies still swirling in the last half of the twentieth century.

Your post coincides with my reading of a book about meditation, «Turning the Mind Into an Ally» by Sakyong Mipham, and as the word «fluvial» has been swirling in the eddies of my mind all day.

As the water picks up speed, however, it starts to develop eddies — zigzagging, swirling currents — that make the flow less predictable.

And shear is important in generating «eddies» — cyclonic or anticyclonic swirls of energy — within the overall wind flow.

The study was focused on a form of turbulence known as mesoscale eddies, ocean swirls on the scale of tens to hundreds of kilometers across that last anywhere from a month to a year.

The eddy lumbered past the northern side of Greenland, its winds swirling clockwise.

Giant swirling masses of seawater known as mesoscale eddies roam the world's oceans.

The ocean is full of eddies, swirling motions some tens to hundreds of kilometres across, which mix the water and carry it across the average currents.

For this project, they and their teams are collaborating with engineers from MBARI to test new ways of adaptively sampling oceanographic features such as open - ocean eddies, swirling masses of water that move slowly across the Pacific Ocean, which can have large effects on ocean microbes.

When one of the Seagliders unexpectedly started moving against the Agulhas Current, the scientists realized that it had become trapped in an eddy of swirling water.

This separation of the flow forms a bubble filled with eddies and swirls of air.

It was a flop at the time, too dark and weird and unhinged for mainstream cinema, and like many Gilliam films it's entrancing on a moment - to - moment level, losing itself in the swirls and eddies of the narrative.

There are programs available to give a graphic indication of the swirls and eddies and paths of an air charge and the propagation of the flame front under dynamic conditions.

A few flakes first, in the dull gray late - afternoon sky, and then wind - driven swirls and eddies around the edges of their wide front porch.

A stone's throw into the bay the submarine reef of seaweed and Daveworks eddied and swirled in the sluggish swell.

Eddies and counter currents swirl around the offshore landscapes of Little Tobago and Goat Island, creating a range of unique drift dives and nurturing thick forests of sponges and corals in vibrant hues of orange, green, purple, yellow and red.

The series of six monochromatic lithographs that comprise Anni Albers's Line Involvements (1964) lambently suggest the swirls and eddies of Smith's twiddled creations.

Her swirls may look like eddies, storm clouds, or breaking ice.

The works appear painterly and abstract, graceful and swirling in the eddies of imagination.

Each drawn image is combined with chaotic eddies of paint, suggestive of galactic swirls, bringing with them an impossibility of scale.

Bravura swirls and snaking rivulets of painterly gesture form endlessly perusable eddies of incident and yet the metallic sheen refutes and repels easy interpretation, making these simultaneously seductive and unyielding, adamantine objects.

There's the world of the inside of the car, which could be social, but also ergonomic, to do with monitoring and controlling the vehicle, and also gaseous and physiological, to do with breathing and the exchanges of oxygen and nitrogen and carbon inside the car; outside the cocoon of the car there is a domain of air currents, eddies and swirls, of turbulences and currents which constitutes a separate system.

Harold Eugene Edgerton (American, 1903 - 1990) Swirls and Eddies: Tennis, signed «HAROLD EDGERTON» in pencil on the reverse.

Anyway, could the presence of these eddy swirls (and the sea - surface temperature garbling that goes along with them) have an impact on the sea - surface temperature record by ships traveling unbeknownst through them over the last 50 - 100 years?

Loosely speaking, this is something like the eddies on opposite sides of a global jet swirling in opposite directions -LRB-... and then the position of the jet moves).

The dead zones were created in large areas of swirling water known as eddies, which form when two or more currents collide.

The bodies of swirling water, called mesoscale eddies, are 100 km to 500 km in diameter.

Nature in the city is an evening breeze, a corkscrew eddy swirling down the face of a building, the sun and the sky... It is the natural processes that govern the transfer of energy, the movement of air, the erosion of the earth, and the hydrologic cycle.