Sentences with phrase «up near the surface»

At night these same animals venture up near the surface in what may be the greatest migration in the animal kingdom.

The tanks held seawater with a range of pH levels reflecting current conditions as well as the lower pH occasionally encountered in Puget Sound when deep water wells up near the surface.

The logic is that it would have been subducted as a function of plate tectonics billions of years ago, then encased in a forming diamond deep in the mantle, and ultimately sent back up near the surface again.

They feast up near the surface, and then descend with the dawn back into the depths.

There's an objection you haven't addressed yet — that if extra heat tried to build up near the surface, convection would immediately carry it away again because warm air rises.

Not exact matches

Phase I surface drilling originally planned for 1,500 metres has wrapped up on 22 holes totalling 2,405 metres as Castle Silver Resources TSXV: CSR sees new polymetallic potential from a former mine near Ontario's Cobalt camp.

Stand table up on all 4 legs and place near another surface so baby can reach over and «walk» to it.

This way, most of the fabric is up against mom and baby's head is nice and high, riding near the surface of the fabric pouch.

It has rubber feet and brakes that lock up whenever the baby goes near an uneven surface such as stairs.

The fact that a similar sound is made by vulcanian and plinian eruptions — two types of blast with tall dense ash columns — suggests it is created as ash and gas churn up near the inner surface of the volcano mouth.

But when gobbling up the tiny crustaceans near the surface, the whales tend to be lefties, launching themselves upward while performing a 360 - degree barrel roll to the left, researchers report in the Nov. 20 Current Biology.

But when gobbling up the tiny crustaceans near the surface, the whales tend to be lefties, launching themselves upward while performing a 360 - degree barrel roll to the left,...

Near Attica, Kansas, they emerged from the rain and looked skyward, taking in the sector of the storm that vacuumed up warm surface air and thrust it high into the atmosphere.

Today, cold water sinks near the Arctic and flows deep below the surface of the Atlantic toward the southern oceans, where it rises up.

So, for example, a big part of what drives a hurricane is the fact that you've got a lot of warm water near the surface of the ocean that is transferring heat into the air, and that's what's moving up, and that is a big part of then what's propelling the entire bigger storm system.

The oxygen content of the ocean may be subject to frequent ups and downs in a very literal sense — that is, in the form of the numerous sea creatures that dine near the surface at night then submerge into the safety of deeper, darker waters at daybreak.

Southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus macoyii) roll over and over to soak up the sun as they skim along at or near the surface of the water, often for hours on end.

An investigation of the most powerful earthquake ever recorded deep within the Earth suggests deep quakes may be better at dissipating pent - up energy than similar quakes near the surface, researchers say in a new study.

Last July, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft swooped near Pluto, snapping the first close - ups ever taken of the dwarf planet's surface.

A low - altitude flow of warm, moist air from an ocean area combined with a flow of cold, dry polar air high up creates maximum instability, which means that parcels of air heated near the surface rise rapidly, creating powerful updrafts.

Suck up near - freezing water from under the ice and pump it directly onto the ice's surface during the long polar winter.

It will snap the first close - up images of Pluto and Charon, map their surface features with visible - wavelength cameras, study their compositions in the near - infrared spectrum, and monitor Pluto's thin atmosphere with ultraviolet spectrometers and radio waves.

There is no risk of a collision, but the near miss offers a chance to observe the asteroid up close, for instance, using radar to map its surface.

Satellites «make their best guess» from 400 kilometers up, Vass says, and can track only conditions near the water's surface, but the gliders «feel the full breadth of the current.»

Haney had rigged up three vacuum - like devices with pipes, plastic funnels and paper to suck up and filter air near the lake's surface.

Furthermore, a deeper upper layer of warm surface water may weaken the cold tongue if the Ekman pumping doesn't reach down below the thermocline to bring up colder water, and weakened trade winds would have a similar effect through reduced Ekman pumping near the equator.

But, as the comet nears the sun and rotates, the lander should get the solar power it needs to wake up and continue studying the surface of the comet, says McDowell.

This is more likely to occur in calm conditions, when air near the surface is less well mixed with air higher up.

This heavy element upwells from a star's core (where it is produced) to the surface (near where it is observed) in a phase called the third dredge - up, when material in deep helium - burning layers is brought to the surface through convection.

Its camera operates in both visible and near - infrared wavelengths, and thus allows high - resolution images of surface features between 4 to 8 feet across to be captured from an altitude of up to 250 miles.

A best fitting model for the inner rim in which large grains in the disk mid-plane reach to within 0.25 AU of the star, while small grains in the disk surface create a puffed - up inner rim at ~ 0.7 - 0.8 AU, is able to reproduce all the data, including the near - infrared visibilities.

Based on the seasonality of ice shelf break up, and the geographic distribution of ice shelf collapse near the southerly - progressing -9 °C isotherm, it appears that surface ponding is necessary for ice - shelf collapse [12].

If you skip out on exfoliation it can cause dead skin cells to build up on the surface of yuor skin and make it near impossible for your lotions and moisturizers to do their jobs.

Whether in front or back, this Murano serves up near - Infiniti levels of interior niceness, with richly padded surfaces and oversize chairs covered in soft leather.

I measured with an infrared thermometer and got 750F on the surface of the exhaust pipe near the lambda, so I assume it must have gotten up to temp inside the pipe.

The 2019 Subaru Ascent feels nicely planted, handling the curvy roads near Coastal Oregon, some 50 miles south of Portland — where Outbacks are as common as Ford F - 150s elsewhere in the country — without giving up comfort over uneven road surfaces.

Of the remaining 28 trillion acre - feet of freshwater on or near the surface, two - thirds is locked up as ice.

Fairly prevalent in goldfishes, swim bladder disease is when the organ maintaining the fish's stability and bouyancy loses its ability to regulate air properly, causing the fish to float nearer to the surface of the water, swim towards a particular side, or even end up upside down!

Sightings of the gigantic cetaceans are up because the krill patches they feed on, which are usually submerged, are often being found at or near the surface.

Composed of near panoramic images of earth's diverse terrains — from the savannah wilderness of southwestern Kenya to the elegant geometry of Venetian canals, from the rococo forms of Toledo to the luminous color fields of the Indian Ocean — each picture in the series is connected by a common horizon line that lines up in the identical position to form a continuous landscape that suggests a common bond and an ever expanding view of the globe's surface.

Similarly, Harmony Hammond employs strips of canvas, grommets, and oil paint to build up the near - monochromatic surfaces of her canvases, a process which she calls «material engagement.»

This is to be expected because the spin - up of the wind - driven ocean circulation speeds up the currents (Ekman transport) which carry heat out of the tropics in the near - surface layers toward the subtropical ocean gyres.

This is more likely to occur in calm conditions, when air near the surface is less well mixed with air higher up.

Furthermore, a deeper upper layer of warm surface water may weaken the cold tongue if the Ekman pumping doesn't reach down below the thermocline to bring up colder water, and weakened trade winds would have a similar effect through reduced Ekman pumping near the equator.

And no, there is no huge plunge in tropical or global surface air temperatures when the ocean circulation spins up because there is a near - compensating decrease in poleward heat transport via the atmospheric circulation.

So at some point in the very near future we can probably expect surface temperatures to gather up a head of steam, and begin rising at a rapid rate.

It's possible that terrestrial sinks could continue to sop up and sequester some anthropogenic carbon, but there's an owful lot of near - surface carbon and if that get's oxidized at some point in the future, then we could be in even hotter water.

A couple of years ago, when it was starting to become obvious that the average global surface temperature was not rising at anywhere near the rate that climate models projected, and in fact seemed to be leveling off rather than speeding up, explanations for the slowdown sprouted like mushrooms in compost.

A new study released Friday in the journal Science Advances helps clear up a bit of the mystery, by showing that man - made climate change is responsible for most of the change seen in ocean surface temperatures near the equator across Asia, which in turn affect regional rainfall patterns including the Indian monsoon.

Most interesting is that the about monthly variations correlate with the lunar phases (peak on full moon) The Helsinki Background measurements 1935 The first background measurements in history; sampling data in vertical profile every 50 - 100m up to 1,5 km; 364 ppm underthe clouds and above Haldane measurements at the Scottish coast 370 ppmCO2 in winds from the sea; 355 ppm in air from the land Wattenberg measurements in the southern Atlantic ocean 1925-1927 310 sampling stations along the latitudes of the southern Atlantic oceans and parts of the northern; measuring all oceanographic data and CO2 in air over the sea; high ocean outgassing crossing the warm water currents north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly average