Sentences with phrase «understanding ocean flow»

Ruth Curry's work is quite good in understanding ocean flows, currents and changes.

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Above all, understanding human civilisation as an ocean into which many rivers flow and contribute guards against the conceptual possibility of hermetic civilisations destined to come into conflict with one another.

Glaciers around the world are melting and contributing to sea level rise, but scientists still don't quite understand how exactly glaciers give birth to icebergs as they flow into the ocean and lose ice.

Sharks are at the top of the ocean food chain, Meyer noted, making them an important part of the marine ecosystem, and knowing more about these fish helps scientists better understand the flow of energy through the ocean.

Understanding how carbon flows between land, air and water is key to predicting how much greenhouse gas emissions the earth, atmosphere and ocean can tolerate over a given time period to keep global warming and climate change at thresholds considered tolerable.

Then there is the increased poleward flow of the ocean currents — partly driven by Hurricanes, I understand.

You understand the «island life» and you can rest, relax, and look at the ocean and go with the traffic's flow.

I understand that ocean circulation is complicated but I have been trying to find out how much is known about the flows of underground rivers and where they enter the ocean.

The authors expect that an improved understanding will lead to more answers about how these plumes affect the ocean regions into which they flow and their potential effects on aquatic plants, animals, and climate.

In particular is it something that could in principle be measured in our lifetime, or are we stuck with calculating it based on our best understanding of how heat flows between the ocean and the atmosphere?

To fully understand the causes of changes in ice flow requires research on the ice itself, the nearby ocean, and the Antarctic climate.

The details of heat flow into the ocean is much harder to measure than surface temperature and the details of it much less well understood.

One can not understand how water flows north through the Gulf Stream without understanding what is happening in the southern oceans.

The problem is that we do not completely understand the factors that control how rapidly the ice flows and thus enters the ocean.

Such accelerated flow leads to increased ice discharge into the ocean, but the relevant dynamical processes are not properly understood nor included in continental ice - sheet models, the main difficulty being the treatment of grounding - line migration in response to increased melting of ice by the ocean.

To get a better understanding of how organic phosphorus and nitrogen contribute to the wider Arctic Ocean nutrient budget, Torres - Valdés et al. measured nutrient loads along the paths of currents flowing into and out of the Arctic Basin.

Customer service skills, the ability to handle vendor relations, capability of tracking and tracing shipments, and understanding of department process flows are just some of the skills that an ocean import agent needs to possess.