Sentences with phrase «water current off»

They are fully aware of upwelling cold water currents off the coast.

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In April, Trump signed the America First Offshore Energy Executive Order instructing Zinke to revise the current five - year schedule for leasing blocks of the U.S. outer continental shelf, the waters off the U.S. shore that the federal government governs.

Already Columbus believed he had located the general site where the earthly paradise would be found and imagined that fresh - water currents in the sea off the northern coast of South America actually flowed from it.8 With literal - minded doggedness others would seek El Dorado, the Seven Cities of Cibola, or the Fountain of Eternal Youth.

Although current drought worries have been focused in the West — Western states have experienced insect outbreaks; mass tree die - offs; loss of water and carbon; bigger and more costly wildfires; and economic impacts to timber stands due to severe, multiyear drought — in the wake of a changing climate, the report notes that «all U.S. forests are vulnerable to drought.»

Led by Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist and marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the team found that a small fraction of contaminated seafloor sediments off Fukushima are moved offshore by typhoons that resuspend radioactive particles in the water, which then travel laterally with southeasterly currents into the Pacific Ocean.

Shelf waters off the Pacific Northwest extend anywhere from 30 to 80 kilometers offshore and lie beneath the California Current, one of the richest marine ecosystems in the world.

When the researchers switched the electric current off by deoxygenating the water, thereby removing the electron acceptor at the sediment surface, the depth of the hydrogen sulfide layer in the sediment rose in less than an hour, as deeper microbes could no longer consume it.

Velicogna and her colleagues also measured a dramatic loss of Greenland ice, as much as 38 cubic miles per year between 2002 and 2005 — even more troubling, given that an influx of fresh melt water into the salty North Atlantic could in theory shut off the system of ocean currents that keep Europe relatively warm.

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.

He predicts that water off the Oregon shore will peak at around 10 to 20 becquerel per cubic meter of water as ocean currents carry radiation from Japan in the years ahead.

At the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, just off the coast of Maine, a tidal power system built and operated by the Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) draws energy from currents created as 100 billion tons of water flow into and out of the bay.

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

These kinds of eddies can pinch off from strong boundary currents like the Gulf Stream, or form where water flows of different temperatures and densities come into contact.

«At the current rate of change, there is not much more room for the waters off the Oregon coast, for example, to absorb more CO2 without crossing the threshold,» Waldbusser says.

When the team ran the model with rivers, the freshwater diluted the salty surface waters of the tropics and subtropics and shut off the deep currents.

Although scientists had noticed before that the water was not centered at the current poles, no one had noticed this precise off - axis, antipodal relationship.

That's because a current of cold ocean water moves from north to south along the West Coast, cooling the coastal Pacific and removing the threat of hurricanes, which form only when low pressure systems siphon off the energy from warm ocean water.

The band of cold water off Chile's coast is produced by the Humboldt Current, a slow northerly ocean flow that runs more than 3,000 miles along the Pacific coast of South America, from southern Chile all the way to the equator.

Current solar facilities reflect the sun's rays off of curved mirrors to heat water or mineral oil, but experimental systems use materials such as molten salt, which could run far hotter and be stored in insulated tanks for hours or days.

The geology off the Chilean coast, and the patterns of currents there, create a mosaic of low - and high - iron waters.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

The 315 horsepower of BMW's N55 must be blessed with Bavarian holy water, because the manner in which it hauls around the 6's 4,455 pounds is nothing short of amazing — it should feel laggy and lethargic off - boost, but then this single - turbo powerplant in its current state of tune doesn't really know the meaning of «lag» — torque delivery occurs right now with a healthy snarl from the exhaust that hides its turbocharged nature.

To refinance, an underwater homeowner would have to cough up the cash to pay off the «above water» part of his or her current mortgage — converting a paper loss into a real one.

While you do NOT need to turn off your filtration, we do recommend that you minimize the water current in the tank while applying Aiptasia Rx.

Most cats avoid water and few owners take their cats for walks on a leash, but if you do take your cat for a walk, avoid floods and don't let it off the leash near flooding as there can be strong currents which may put it at risk.

The waters off Koh Rong and Koh Rong Samloem offer a top launching pad for beginners and snorkellers with shallow waters and light currents.

As you jump into the water and start to make your way onto the plateau, where the wall starts, the current takes you over the flat terrain and along the drop - off.

Langebaan Lagoon extends in a finger of water away from Saldanha Bay, its 16 kilometres controlled by tidal currents, tailing off into salt marshes and a cluster of salt pans, rich with water bird life.

The clear waters around here, especially off Penida, are known for their strong and unforgiving currents and are much colder than you would assume for the tropics.

The currents off of Lumahai Beach can get very strong, so make sure you're aware of the water conditions before jumping in.

Known as propagules, these young plants drop off the parent plant into the water to be carried where ever the currents are going.

The reef system around Placencia in Southern Belize is the perfect environment for you to learn the beginner's scuba diving course with warm waters, no currents, great visibility and amazing coral reefs for you to dive off.

Down currents With a nasty reputation among divers, down currents occur when the flow of water hits the face on a drop off.

The area bordering this deep drop - off is the ideal place to troll for the large pelagic species that come in from the deeper currents to hunt feeder fish in the shallower waters.

Most marine adventure tour operators take their fishing boats down to the deep south - eastern waters off Bali, where rich currents bring together most kinds of popular game fish.

The abundant waters off the coast of Cabo San Lucas — located at the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula, where the calm and warm waters of the Sea of Cortez mixes with the unfathomable cool currents of the Pacific Ocean — offer the ideal conditions for plenty of sport - fish species, including (among others) Rooster Fish, Mahi Mahi (known locally as Dorado), varieties of Tuna, Sharks, Jacks, Groupers, and Billfish such as Sailfish, Swordfish, Black Marlin, Blue Marlin and Striped Marlin.

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However, while the subtle collisions between the bowls suggest the unpredictable complexity of a stochastic pattern in nature, the artist has experimented with and refined all of the components over time — the shape and size of the pool or pools, the temperature and speed of the water, and the type, size, and number of floating vessels that subtly peel off to the left or right of a diametrical current directed at the center.3 For the artist, the configuration of elements in his generative systems is tuned to be «both operational and identifiable as the score of the musical form it produces.»

On the other hand, the budgeting of salinity implicit in the ocean model used by Hatun et al. may not properly account for river run - off (freshens the water), transport from the Pacific, the Canadian Archipelago, the East Greenland current, or melting processes.

With endangered species dangers, and a shrinking snow - cap water supply due to climate change, legislators will have to determine not just how to get water to the masses this year, but also how to transition and wean current users off into new sectors of the economy for the long term, as some job sectors dry up.

Also, with drought and the current trend of farmers to sell off their water rights, the best economic game these folks have left themselves is renewable energy such as wind.

WA Regional Climate Services Manager Mr Glenn Cook explained that the high rainfall was due to an active monsoon season in the north of the state, as a result of the current La Nina and aided by warmer than normal waters off the WA north coast.

11 Thermal image of the Gulf Stream off the coast of the USA Ocean Currents In a similar way, radiation from the Sun heats the oceans, creating convection currents in thCurrents In a similar way, radiation from the Sun heats the oceans, creating convection currents in thcurrents in the water.

These include eastern boundary current upwelling systems such as those off the U.S. west coast along coastal California, Oregon and Washington, deep - sea and subsurface oxygen minimum zones, and coastal waters that are already experiencing excess nutrient levels (eutrophication) and low dissolved oxygen (hypoxia) due to human - driven nutrient pollution from land - based activities.

The cold dry winds blowing eastward off Canada eagerly evaporate the warm surface water of the North Atlantic Current, and leave it heavy with excess salt.

According to the report, to address those threats a policy framework should be developed that enables the sustainable development of the Marshlands and addresses trade - offs among current and future uses of the Marshlands, such as those between agricultural production and water quality, land use and biodiversity, development of oil industry water use and aquatic biodiversity.

El Ni o an irregular variation of ocean current that, from January to February, flows off the west coast of South America, carrying warm, low - salinity, nutrient - poor water to the south; does not usually extend farther than a few degrees south of the Equator, but occasionally it does penetrate beyond 12 S, displacing the relatively cold Peruvian current; usually short - lived effects, but sometimes last more than a year, raising sea - surface temperatures along the coast of Peru and in the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, having disastrous effects on marine life and fishing

• surface upwelling (of cold / cool water) at / off western continental margins, driven by Coriolis effect on equatorward currents;

Presently, more acidic waters brought up from the deeper ocean to the surface by wind and currents off the Northwest coast of the United States are having this effect on oysters grown in aquaculture.

The scientists studied satellite images of 17 giant icebergs off Antarctica from 2003 - 2013 and found that algae could turn the water greener for hundreds of kms (miles) around the icebergs, with nutrients spread by winds and currents.