Sentences with phrase «water currents flow»

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His sentiments describe our current situation perfectly: Flows data tells us that investors pumped the brakes this month, treading water and waiting for clarity.

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.

When salty ocean water flows through the magnetic field, an electric current is generated and this, in turn, induces a magnetic response in the deep region below Earth's crust — the mantle.

In macroscopic objects such as a current of water, the fact of observing the current does not affect the flow of the water and, in accordance with the laws of classical thermodynamics, this flow would take place from the upper to the lower part of the system.

In electrolysis, electrical current flows through a metallic electrode immersed in water.

The simulations suggest that over decades, these warming events dramatically perturb the ocean surface, affecting the flow of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a system of currents that acts like a conveyor belt moving water around the planet.

If you decouple that ice from where it's grounded — something that currents of warming water, already circulating around the Antarctic coast, could do — then water could flow beneath the inland ice and lubricate its slide into the ocean.

Features like giant gravel current ripples and displaced 65 - foot - wide boulders in the Scablands could not be explained by changes in the nearby Columbia River, he wrote — the flow and volume of whatever water source formed them would have to be exponentially larger.

An ocean current is any more or less permanent or continuous, directed movement of ocean water that flows in one of the Earth's oceans.

As the water picks up speed, however, it starts to develop eddies — zigzagging, swirling currents — that make the flow less predictable.

There the team plans to test a current meter, which measures water flow.

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

Increased flow of the East Australian Current, for example, has meant waters south - east of the continent are warming at two to three times the global average.

The instruments on the sides of Axial that measured current could have supported the squeezed - sponge model if they had measured a strong flow of water back toward the volcano to replace the expelled fluids.

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.

Under which conditions does the current not flow like water through a tap, but rather trickles like sand in an hourglass?

Of course, freeing electrons in a copper - oxide insulator to get superconducting current flowing for useful applications won't be quite as easy as melting ice to get liquid water or removing pieces from a chessboard.

However, under different climate states during the past few millennia the water flux was greater than now; this leads to great uncertainty in estimations of how much of the current water flow is renewable versus fossil.

It becomes more and more resistive to current flow back to the water.

He says that the cost of water - flow power production is less than that of solar or wind and that current - based generators can be arranged in large networks to power thousands of homes.

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.

Many proposed ocean energy projects rely on turbines that require sustained strong currents, but Bernitsas's device can run efficiently on water flows of just a few miles per hour.

«The battery's water - based liquid electrolytes are also designed to be a drop - in replacement for current flow battery systems,» said PNNL materials scientist Wei Wang, one of the paper's corresponding authors.

In Japan, Undaria grows fastest in the cold arctic water that flows past Japan in winter, but reproduces only in the warm summer currents.

They describe technology that would react the CO2 with water or other liquids and, with further processing, produce a flow of electrons that make up electric current.

Strong east - west currents, a possible island chain, and even the Congo River's enormous flow of fresh water might have helped cichlids across the South Atlantic, which was of course much narrower then.

A spin wave can be thought of as similar to an ocean wave, which keeps water molecules in essentially the same place while the energy is carried through the water, as opposed to an electric current, which can be envisioned as water flowing through a pipe, said principal investigator Kang L. Wang, UCLA's Raytheon Professor of Electrical Engineering and director of the Western Institute of Nanoelectronics (WIN).

In collaboration with doctoral candidate Paul Phamduy and NYU - Poly research scholar Giovanni Polverino, Porfiri designed an experiment to examine the interplay of visual cues and flow cues — changes in the water current as a result of tail - beat frequency — in triggering a live golden shiner fish to either approach or ignore a robotic fish.

While the negative electrons flow out as usable current, the positive protons are drawn to the cathode, where they recombine with returning electrons and oxygen to produce 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.

That mismatch sets up currents in the fluid, causing the soapy water to stream from warmer to colder regions, a process known as Marangoni flow.

Four years ago, researchers began placing OSNAP's 53 moorings, studded with sensors to measure temperature, salinity, and current flow, in the waters between Labrador and Scotland.

The turbine operates in the middle layer of the current, 100 m below the surface, where the waters flow calmly and steadily, even during strong storms.

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.

Hundreds of years ago, South American fishermen observed that every year around Christmas, coastal waters of the Pacific became warmer as a current flowed from north to south.

In experiments, the researchers pumped water through a graphene membrane treated with both defect - sealing and pore - producing processes, and found that water flowed through at rates comparable to current desalination membranes.

Considering the model in a flow cell containing nanodiamonds immobilized in a hydrogel, numerical illustration shows flowing water molecules can be polarized over 1000-fold, in sufficient volumes for detection by current NMR scanners.

Around the Antarctic Peninsula, changes in ocean currents, and in particular, changes in circumpolar deep water flowing onto the continental shelf, is melting ice shelves from below.

We have discovered a fascinating property with our Ink after reading a paper from China that showed that an electrical current is produced when sea water is made to flow over Graphene.

As the water becomes very conductive, the voltage may be reduced to as little as 5 or 6 volts to maintain the desired current flow.

They flow through water with focus and determination, often upstream or against current while maintaining feminine energy.

So perhaps some deeper, darker (and more darkly comic) current flows through Smith's veins - an effervescent sort of ice water, perhaps - that allows him to live as comfortably as a New Yorker as he once did as a Midwesterner.

Snorkeling from a boat allows operators to visit sites where there are currents, as snorkels can drift and be picked up without having to swim against the water flow.

Our century - old ranch is outfitted with current amenities including Wi - Fi, fresh spring water flowing from all taps, an expansive restaurant serving authentic Costa Rican cuisine, and our on - site Adventure Center offering more than 20 adventure tours and nature tours right on our ranch and in the national park.

The most recent change came with the 2008 flood, where part of the current veil detached, resulting in the water now flowing out of only one side of the notch.

The current usually flows eastward and is much stronger at the surface than in the deeper water.

Incoming tides can also produce a tidal bore along a river or narrow bay as the water flow against the current results in a wave on the surface.

The prevailing California Current flows southward along the coast, causing an upwelling of nutrient - rich water that provided the foundation for the area's marine ecosystem.

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

Too put it simply, a current is a flow of moving water (usually forcing in the same direction).