Sentences with phrase «water currents mean»

Koombana Bay's shallow and slow water currents mean that mixing with water from the deep ocean takes a long time.

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T. Rowe dropped Dropbox shares by 16 percent, meaning the current value of its holdings in that company is reportedly under water — 13 percent below the firm's original purchase price in 2012.

Additionally, the study authors noted, the number of people who had access to safe — and not just improved — water in 1990 was likely much lower than previously estimated, which means that the 2015 target is even farther away than estimated by the current rubric.

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.

But current methods to desalinate water come at a very high cost in terms of energy, which means more greenhouse gases and more global warming.

Melting sea ice will mean ocean currents can carry warmer water and nutrients into Arctic water, taking fish further north and potentially allowing them to mix between oceans.

I am interested in the change from the period when the meaning of art and form in art was in making complex experience simple and lucid, as is still the case in «Knife in the Water» [Roman Polanski, 1962] or «Bandits of Orgosolo» [Vittorio De Seta, 1960], to the current acceptance of art as technique, the technique which in a movie like «This Sporting Life» [Lindsay Anderson, 1963] makes a simple, though psychologically confused, story look complex, and modern because inexplicable.

With humanity's ecological footprint of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person means to say that to sustain the current population on Earth of 7 billion people would take 18.9 billion gha (2.7 gha x 7 billion people) which is higher than the 13.4 billion global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water on Earth, a fact that indicates that already exceeded the regenerative capacity of the planet in the average level of current world consumption.

So a better battery would have a higher current «bigger main pipe» meaning that there would be more current «water» left over for the headlights as the car is starting, causing them to dim less?

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.

Dry conditions mean no runoff to mar coastal visibility; currents range from non-existent to mild, and water temperatures range from 78 - 82 ° F. Reefs begin close to shore and slope to depths of more than 130 feet.

Richelieu's remote location is not sheltered from the open water and recommended for the more advanced diver due to changing currents which can be mild to strong, but also mean that the best way to experience Richelieu Rock is via dive liveaboard.

The currents here mean this site can only be dived at certain times and normally at slack water.

Named The Passage, this dive site is a current highway with plankton rich water which means mantas can be seen feeding here along with mobula rays as well as tuna and jacks.

«Mbu» means ocean or sea, a subject relevant to Maheke's current research in the theory of Hydro - Feminism, which examines the interconnectedness of the female body with the natural waters that surround us.

It is therefore by no means enough to put a current meter in the water at one or two points.

The current hard shorelines of New York City failed us because they are too binary — meaning that the sea walls only protect us until the water level reaches a certain height where it will then overflow into the city.

California has nearly quadrupled in population over the last 50 years but has not doubled its water supply, meaning that current supplies are stretched thin as new people migrate to the area and new water needs arise.

The oceans are really big, yet the presence of currents and layers at different temperatures means temperatures can be quite different in waters just a few hundred meters apart.

This despite the fact that such a «forcing» should have, according to the current paradigm, lead to global mean temperatures about 68 degrees colder than the present, which would have lead to a completely frozen Earth, with the mean temperature at about 54 degrees below the freezing point of water.

I would need clarification of what you mean by strong, since for the regulations except for the just started GHR, people have been sent to jail, and audits of the receptive media show that pollution is down as measured in air, water, and groundwater that were regulated under the current regulations.

The report assessed the ability of current and proposed weather modification strategies meant to help with water resource management and weather hazard mitigation.

That means of the earth's current climate, only 6 % is attributed to GHG's which include water vapor of about 97.4 % Water and 2.3 % CO2 and other complex organic molecules and awater vapor of about 97.4 % Water and 2.3 % CO2 and other complex organic molecules and aWater and 2.3 % CO2 and other complex organic molecules and acids.

The oceans and seas absorb the heat from the atmosphere and redistribute it through the means of water currents, and atmospheric processes, such as evaporation and the reflection of light allow for the cooling and warming of the overlying atmosphere.

The current Apple Watch is «water resistant» which is pretty useful, but Apple's cautious tip - toeing around what that means has meant I'm far too scared to get it near anything other than the shower.

The iPhone 7's water resistance makes waterproof cases less important than they were with previous iPhone models — the current models are IP67 rated, meaning they'll survive submersion in a meter of water for half an hour, and they're fully protected against dust.

There are still three wireless charging standards fighting for primacy, Apple has only touched it toes into the water with conducive charging on the Apple Watch, and many deep - pocked technology investors already starting to shift from placing their bets in the current wireless charging standard players to new possibilities like uBeam, which can send power to phones using ultrasonic sound — meaning your device could move about a room while charging, not having to sit idle on a pad.

Speaking of being waterproof, the Xperia Z2 Tablet comes with the same IP58 rating that is found with the current lineup of high - end smartphones from the company, which means that you can dunk the tablet up to 1 meter in water without affecting performance.

The current owner says that their HOA fees cover «building insurance» (whatever that means) along with water, trash, etc. and in addition, they pay $ 5,000 per year in «property» insurance.