Sentences with phrase «under ocean water»

Permafrost was submerged under the ocean water, and started it's slow thawing.

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It is producing a «Submaran»: an unmanned device that can float on the surface of the ocean and also drive 200 meters under the water to monitor pipelines, currents, temperature or whatever a customer might want.
I'd be just as likely to take you on a walk up the mountainside near our house, under the canopy of the trees, so you could listen to the water running in the dozens of creeks dancing down waterfalls of stones, the water bright and cold and clear, heading for the Fraser River, moving towards the fullness of complete ocean.
A robot BP was using under the water in the Gulf of Mexico accidentally bumped a vent, causing BP to have to remove the containment cap that was siphoning off some of the oil gushing from the ocean floor.
In America, President Akufo - Addo will participate and address the UN Oceans Conference, the high - level UN Conference being held in New York to support the Implementation of SDG 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (Life under WOceans Conference, the high - level UN Conference being held in New York to support the Implementation of SDG 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (Life under Woceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (Life under Water).
It is said that little drops of water makes a mighty ocean and it is in this light that ONE LOVE ONE GHANA FOUNDATION, an NGO which is now focusing on education is starting its «one love elimination of schools under trees» project at Akwamu Kotoku Basic School in the Fanteakwa District in the Eastern Region.
This tidal energy produces more than enough internal heat to create a global water ocean, possibly as thick in places as 50 kilometers, buried under an outer layer of ice a few kilometers thick.
The cycle of Pacific Ocean surface water warming and cooling has become more variable in recent decades, suggesting El Niño may strengthen under climate change
Two Atlantic Ocean coral species — elkhorn and staghorn — are listed as «threatened» under the Endangered Species Act, and NOAA is considering whether an additional 82 coral species also warrant some level of protection under the law because of threats from warming water, ocean acidification and polluOcean coral species — elkhorn and staghorn — are listed as «threatened» under the Endangered Species Act, and NOAA is considering whether an additional 82 coral species also warrant some level of protection under the law because of threats from warming water, ocean acidification and polluocean acidification and pollution.
Ryskin proposes that huge deposits of methane and other gases, which are naturally produced in deep - sea waters, became trapped under the pressure of a then - stagnant global ocean.
They found that western Antarctica has recently seen warmer, saltier water being driven under the shelf — the part of the ice sheet that sticks out over the ocean (Science, doi.org/xkx).
Under these conditions, iron is as liquid as the water in the oceans.
Under the icy surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus, a liquid ocean launches water plumes through the cracks.
«The new data set will allow us to check if our ocean models can correctly represent changes in the flow of warm water under ice shelves,» he added.
Its dark surface (Ceres reflects just one - fourth as much light as Vesta) indicates a water - rich interior; some researchers even speculate that it could have a mile - deep ocean under a frozen surface.
These snailfish live almost five miles beneath the ocean surface, in pitch - black waters and under immense pressure.
The way water in this picture found its way back to the ocean reminded me of a peacock's tail spreading under the sun or a woman's hair blowing in the wind.
When mammals began to colonize the ocean some 50 million years ago, they immediately faced a huge challenge: hunting under water.
These particles can interact with water, emitting a shudder of light, albeit under such rare circumstances that just a few of them strike each square mile of ocean each year.
Jones and his colleagues propose the water came from the subducting Farallon oceanic plate under the Pacific Ocean 75 to 45 million years ago.
«Nobody had done rapid - response drilling in the ocean, nobody had drilled anything substantial under 7 kilometers of water, nobody had placed an observatory in a fault that deep, and nobody had retrieved a string of instruments from that deep,» she said.
Coral reefs can't find a strong purchase in the eastern tropical Pacific thanks to more acidic waters — a potential precursor of what the ocean will be like under global warming
It can cost from just under $ 1 to well over $ 2 to produce one cubic meter (264 gallons) of desalted water from the ocean.
During two different research expeditions, in the mid - to late springs of 2010 and 2012, the AUV — which resembles a 2 - meter - long bunk bed with twin hulls stacked on top of one another — traveled back and forth through several different Southern Ocean waters in a lawn mower — like pattern at depths of 20 to 30 meters under the ice to collect a 3D survey of the topography of the sea ice's underbelly.
Their mission was to study how the abundant marine life in these frigid waters will bear up under the stress of one of the world's most daunting, if least publicized, environmental threats: the rising acidity of the oceans.
Under normal conditions, the trade winds and ocean currents in the tropical Pacific travel from the Americas to Asia, maintaining a pool of very warm water and a related area of intense tropical rainfall around Indonesia.
The researchers tested oysters for two months under varying water temperature and pH conditions, including those predicted for oceans in 2100.
But researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, members of the PlanetSolar Deepwater expedition, have now succeeded in linking the composition of marine biological aerosols — and therefore their influence on the climate — to that of bodies of water under them within the Atlantic Ocean, thereby paving the way to an indirect study of these aerosols through water analysis.
In previous experiments, the same SF State researchers found that the same strain of coccolithophores grown for hundreds of generations under cool and acidified water conditions grew less shell than those growing under current ocean conditions.
The glacier is currently experiencing significant acceleration, thinning and retreat that is thought to be caused by «ocean - driven» melting; an increase in warm ocean water finding its way under the ice shelf.
During a trawl for sea creatures on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean last month, scientists on the RV Helmer Hansson in Rijpfjorden on the island of Spitsbergen, Norway, retrieved a 7 - meter - long log infested with living shipworms on the sea floor under 250 meters of water.
One of those scientists is Philip Orton, an ocean engineer at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., a city of about 50,000 people, in the New York City metropolitan area, that Sandy swamped under eight feet of salt water.
GA maps the land masses below the ocean's surface through basic geological work and seismic and bathymetric analysis (measuring water depth at various places in a body of water) to better define and legally extend Australia's continental shelf for a submission to the United Nations under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
A new study led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics has found that wind over the ocean off the coast of East Antarctica causes warm, deep waters to upwell, circulate under Totten Ice Shelf, and melt the fringes of the East Antarctic ice sheet from below.
The one - two punch of warming waters and ocean acidification is predisposing some marine animals to dissolving quickly under conditions already occurring off the Northern California coast, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.
The Earth is more than 75 percent water, but only 1 percent of the oceans have been studied due to technological limits of going deep under water.
Some scientists believe the dwarf planet harbored a subsurface ocean in the past and liquid water may still be lurking under its icy mantle.
By engineering breaking waves of natural ocean water under purified air in the lab, they were able to isolate and analyze aerosols from the spray and determine how life within the water altered the chemistry of the particles.
In the study, the researchers use an ice - ocean model created in Bremerhaven to decode the oceanographic and physical processes that could lead to an irreversible inflow of warm water under the ice shelf — a development that has already been observed in the Amundsen Sea.
At Enceladus's south pole, plumes of water spurt up from an ocean hidden under a thick sheath of ice.
Earth and Venus are of comparable size and mass, yet the surface of Venus bakes at 460 degrees Celsius under an ocean of carbon dioxide that bears down with the weight of a kilometer of water.
Enceladus is subject to forces that heat a global ocean of liquid water under its icy surface, resulting in its famous south polar water jets which are just visible below the moon's dark, southern limb.
Kapteyn b is represented here as an old and cold ocean planet with a network of channels of flowing water under a thin cloud cover.
Is it possible that because it used to be covered with ice it may be under - saturated, and thus absorb more than Antarctic ocean water?
Under its ice crust, estimated to be 10 km thick, is an ocean of liquid water of over 100 km deep.
In the abyssal realm, seafloor habitats under areas of deep - water formation (e.g., those in the North Atlantic and Southern Oceans) could experience a maximum decline in O2 concentration of 0.03 mL L — 1 by 2100 (i.e., a 0.5 % drop from current levels; Tables 2, 3; Figures 2, 3).
However, Mercator Ocean shows that the intermediate waters have cooled under the cool spot.
After recently discovering what is thought to be the largest body of water on Saturn's Titan moon, NASA is considering options to send an autonomous submarine under the surface of Titan's Kraken Mare Ocean.
Cassini discovered a liquid - water ocean under the icy surface of the moon Enceladus and, perhaps a victim of its own success, must die to prevent any chance that its warm electric generators might melt their way down into those life - friendly waters.
Mysterious under - snow lakes pockmarking its edges and deep layers of ice at higher elevations both point to changes that could hasten melt and send water cascading into the ocean, pushing global sea levels ever higher.
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