Sentences with phrase «water current called»

«The Gulf Stream is driven both by the rotation of the Earth and by a deep - water current called the Thermohaline Circulation»

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Cuomo is calling on the U.S. - Canadian panel that controls water output for Lake Ontario to maintain or increase its current outflow level to decrease the chance of flooding along the lake's shoreline.

(WBEN) Inspired by a «Golden Parachute» deal for the current Erie County Water Authority Executive Director who is likely to lose his job soon because of a change in political patronage power, Assemblywoman Monica Wallace is calling for a limit on these types of severance packages at authorities across New York State.

However, rapidly aging infrastructure, population growth, and increasing urbanization call into question current urban water management strategies, especially in the fast - growing urban areas in Asia and Africa.

Antarctica's strong Circumpolar Deep Current circles the entire continent, driven by strong winds called westerlies, which also create the Southern Ocean's dangerous and choppy waters.

Chris Giunchigliani, a current Clark County commissioner who once served on the Water Authority board, sees the agency — which she called «the final arbiter» of what can and should be built — as centrally responsible for why Las Vegas» building boom continued through the drought years.

As water streams past a submarine's hull, the flow splits into many pairs of current called streaks.

An initial high - resolution study shows that off Peru the ocean layer called «oxygen minimum» where life is limited is sensitive to the intensity of the seasonal current from the equator that brings water containing little oxygen to the coastal ecosystem.

This phenomenon, called von Kármán vortex shedding, affects any elongated structure caught in wind or water currents such as lampposts, high rises and the long vertical pipes used for drilling oil at sea.

Gage and Gordon take issue with claims by Rudall Blanchard Associates, Shell's consultants, that the deep ocean «supports a small range of species»; that deep - water fishing does not take place in the area; and that water currents at the site are what atmospheric meteorologists would call «dead calm».

Researchers were able to determine — with the aid of Opportunity's science package — that liquid water did flow on surface of Mars in the past, its currents etching ripples in stone as a calling card.

Through our current campaign, Our Common Waters, and with exposure to increased oil and gas development near our homes and communities, we have grown concerned about hydraulic fracturing (commonly called «fracking») and its impact on water, air, soil, wildlife habitat, and human health.

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During the Spring months and throughout the Summer, the trophy - sized pelagic species, like Blue Marlin, White Marlin, Sailfish, Blackfin Tuna, and Dorado (also called Dolphin Fish or Mahi Mahi), venture close to the continental shelf to feed on feeder fish that congregate in the warm waters that border the deepwater currents of the Caribbean.

Larger species enjoying the current and the nutrient - rich water are grey reef sharks (or grey whalers as they are often called by Aussies), white tip reef sharks, mackerel and sweetlips.

The study found that major hot spots for large marine predators are the California Current, which flows south along the U.S. west coast, and a trans - oceanic migration highway called the North Pacific Transition Zone, which connects the western and eastern Pacific on the boundary between cold sub-arctic water and warmer subtropical water — about halfway between Hawaii and Alaska.

She calls for a design revolution, given how the current slow effort to build out a western - style sanitation system requiring enormous amounts of water and energy is not tenable, particularly for the poor.

For example, water from the tropical and subtropical Atlantic (including some from the Gulf of Mexico) moves north through the Atlantic in a current popularly (if misleadingly) called the «Gulf Stream».

All along the East Coast of Greenland, we find a strong southward flow of ice and Polar Water called the East Greenland Current.

The job is done by warm water flowing north from the tropics, variously called the Gulf Stream and, when nearing Ireland, the North Atlantic Current.

2 I. Currents (pgs) Ocean water contains horizontal, stream - like movements of water called ocean cCurrents (pgs) Ocean water contains horizontal, stream - like movements of water called ocean currentscurrents.

Surface Currents Horizontal movements of ocean water caused by wind and occurring at or near the ocean's surface are called surface cCurrents Horizontal movements of ocean water caused by wind and occurring at or near the ocean's surface are called surface currentscurrents.

Another part flows eastward toward Spain and Portugal, while the remaining water flows northeastward as the North Atlantic Drift (also called the North Atlantic Current) into the northernmost regions of the North Atlantic Ocean between Scotland and Iceland.

These westerly winds, thanks to the Coriolis effect, move the surface waters a bit to the left (the so - called Ekman current), and this allows waters from intermediate depths to rise to the surface.

The world's climate is way too complex... with way too many significant global and regional variables (e.g., solar, volcanic and geologic activity, variations in the strength and path of the jet stream and major ocean currents, the seasons created by the tilt of the earth, and the concentration of water vapor in the atmosphere, which by the way is many times more effective at holding heat near the surface of the earth than is carbon dioxide, a non-toxic, trace gas that all plant life must have to survive, and that produce the oxygen that WE need to survive) to consider for any so - called climate model to generate a reliable and reproducible predictive model.

ENSO is an actual physical oscillation of ocean water involving equatorial currents in a large bowl called the Pacific Ocean.

Gas and liquids are fluids, this sets up convection currents in the heavy fluid voluminous gas which is our atmosphere as they exist in the fluid liquid water which is the ocean, in the air these volumes of air on the move, packets as some call them..

Periodic events called El Niño and La Niña alter the circulation of warmer and cooler water in ocean currents, leading to changes in climatic patterns across large regions.

This is the same process of liquid water in the ocean, which when heated expands and becomes lighter and so rises and colder volumes of water around it will sink beneath — in the ocean this is called currents, movements of volumes of water through differential heating.

13 C. Wind & Ocean Currents Wind & water combine w / the effects of the sun to influence weather & climate Wind Patterns Winds blow in fairly consistent patterns — prevailing winds — map on pg.60 Coriolis Effect — causes winds to blow diagonally The Horse Latitudes Why are they called this??? Doldrums — windless areas near the Equator Ocean Currents Just like the wind, cold and warm streams of water (currents), move through the oceans El Nino Periodic change in the pattern of ocean currents & water temCurrents Wind & water combine w / the effects of the sun to influence weather & climate Wind Patterns Winds blow in fairly consistent patterns — prevailing winds — map on pg.60 Coriolis Effect — causes winds to blow diagonally The Horse Latitudes Why are they called this??? Doldrums — windless areas near the Equator Ocean Currents Just like the wind, cold and warm streams of water (currents), move through the oceans El Nino Periodic change in the pattern of ocean currents & water temCurrents Just like the wind, cold and warm streams of water (currents), move through the oceans El Nino Periodic change in the pattern of ocean currents & water temcurrents), move through the oceans El Nino Periodic change in the pattern of ocean currents & water temcurrents & water temperature

****** That warmth extends more than 200 feet deep in one area in advance of Katrina, thanks to a donut - shaped pool of hot water called the loop current, which breaks off from the Gulf Stream and floats around the Gulf each year.

In what reporter Gina Passarella in The Legal Intelligencer calls an example of the current economic climate's «uncharted waters» and «choppy tides,» Fordham Law School yesterday took the highly unusual and perhaps even unprecedented step of banning the international law firm Reed Smith, the 16th - ranked firm on this year's Am Law 100, from interviewing on campus for five years.

An important current challenge is that progress is actually much slower in the so - called «treaty provinces,» where a «miserly interpretation» of treaties by the Crown, both federal and provincial, has prevailed, and the First Nations concept of treaties as reflecting a «sharing of the land, water, food, and resources» has not been embraced at all by the Crown.

The reason why the so - called «discounters» have business right now is because so many sales of homes are in the unfortunate position of being under water (the mortgage amounts owing thereon are higher than what the current market values are, or, to put it another way, the mortgage amounts owing are higher than what one can reasonable expect to get when one sells said property (ies).