Warm -
water currents such as the Gulf Stream, Kuroshio, and Agulhas carry excess heat from the tropics to higher latitudes (Figure 1).
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.
Not exact matches
Experienced financial cheats test the
water by starting with elementary games
such as using cookie jars to increase or decrease
current liabilities and to alter revenue.
Just want to share some valuable info (http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/california-targets-wrong-
water-wasters/Content?oid=4222724) since I'm writing from Los Angeles — almond crops are currently responsible for making the
current extreme draught conditions even worse because they are
such a
water - intensive crop in an area that does not naturally have sufficient
water supply, so please consider using other nuts and seeds instead, as CA is currently the only major source of almonds in the world (if you're able to find a small, local / non-CA supplier, wonderful!).
Current cloth diapers come in a host of shapes,
such as preformed cloth diapers, all - in - one diapers with waterproof exteriors, and pocket or stuff - able diapers, which is made of a
water - resistant exterior shell sewn with an opening for insertion of absorbent material inserts.
The
current conventional
water treatment systems utilize processes
such as activated carbon, ozonolysis, and reverse osmosis membrane.
The human right to
water is not fully defined by
current international law or practice, but it has been protected as necessary to secure other human rights,
such as the rights to health, well - being and life.
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.
The findings reflect the major potential sources of environmental pollution along the Rhine,
such as metropolitan areas and industrial plants, waste
water treatment plants and weirs, as well as the particular
current conditions.
Seasonal weather fluctuations also depend on factors
such as proximity to oceans or other large bodies of
water,
currents in those oceans, El Nino / ENSO and other oceanic cycles, and prevailing winds.
In its comments, the EPA pointed out that New York's
current permitting system for
water treatment plants doesn't include limits on pollutants frequently contained in drilling wastewater,
such as radionuclides, which can cause cancer at high levels.
Sometimes, these threats are exacerbated by natural trends,
such as changing ocean
currents that help spark harmful algal blooms in
waters already loaded with nutrients washed from farm fields.
Although many hypotheses have been put forward, most of them focus on the impact of
current variables
such as reef area and
water temperature.
You can imagine that
such a «sensing and response» mechanism involving CRSP and EPF2 could be used to engineer crop varieties which are better able to perform in the
current and future high CO2 global climate where fresh
water availability for agriculture is dwindling.»
Some other fish possess a «passive» electric sense, detecting only external sources of electricity
such as those associated with
water currents.
This is an important finding because
current estimates of biological activity in surface
waters of the ocean rely on instruments aboard satellites that measure the color of the sea surface, which changes along with levels of chlorophyll - a, an assessment that will miss blooms of other organisms,
such as bacteria.
The researchers hypothesize that
current approaches for dealing with excess
water,
such as wetland draining and tiling, could stabilize
water levels in small lakes and impoundments.
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.
RICHLAND, Wash. — Basic ocean conditions
such as
current directions and
water temperature play a huge role in determining the behavior of young migrating salmon as they move from rivers and hit ocean
waters for the first time, according to new research.
«These results will have wider reaching implications,
such as how we map the circulation of the world's oceans in the past, which are affected by how quickly the sea floor is moving up and down and blocking the path of
water currents,» said Hoggard.
In addition, exclusion of human - related impacts
such as irrigation, land use, and
water diversion from most
current climate models makes reliable projection of drought even less certain (Sheffield and Wood 2008).
To mimic
such conditions, Pespeni placed half of her urchin larvae in
water with carbon dioxide levels that match
current ocean conditions.
Coastal and boundary
current systems with a focus on processes that link the nearshore and continental shelf to the open ocean,
such as along - and across - shore transport processes, stirring and mixing of
water masses, and the coastal response to larger - scale forcing events; long - duration, high - resolution observations using autonomous underwater gliders.
Detecting
water on Ceres supports models of the solar system in which giant planets,
such as Jupiter, migrated to their
current positions, mixing material from the outer and inner regions of the solar system.
Why it matters: Knowing how hydroxide ions are arranged in
water could aid scientists in fine - tuning
current industrial processes,
such as manufacturing biodiesel, making processes more efficient or less wasteful.
Unlike the
current generation of light -
water nuclear reactors, PRISM uses metallic fuel,
such as an alloy of zirconium, uranium, and plutonium, and PRISM's fuel rods sit in a bath of a liquid metal — sodium — at atmospheric pressure, which ensures that the transfer of heat from the metal fuel to the liquid sodium coolant is extremely efficient.
She recommends avoiding overfished species
such as shark, orange roughy and bluefin tuna and instead looking for seafood that has been caught in Australian
waters, particularly wild bream, flathead, King George whiting and Australian salmon, all of which are categorised by the Australian Marine Conservation Society as the most sustainable in the
current marketplace.
Although sustainability guidelines are unlikely to be included in the final version of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the Advisory Committee included the following statement in their initial report: «Consistent evidence indicates that, in general, a dietary pattern that is higher in plant - based foods,
such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds, and lower in animal - based foods is more health promoting and is associated with lesser environmental impact (greenhouse gas emissions and energy, land, and
water use) than is the
current average U.S. diet.
With genre movies
such as Get Out and The Shape of
Water dominating the
current race, edgy distributors are optimistic that the Academy, which with each incoming class is trending younger and younger, will continue rewarding ambitious filmmaking.
They take the 2.0 - litre four - pot from the
current Megane RS and detune it to 217bhp and 251 lb ft. Styling is equally
watered down, although you do get a semi-sporting front spoiler, 18in alloys, grippy seats and niceties
such as chromed door mirror caps.
With early reports from the Olympic venue complaining about the health concerns —
such as the Zika virus, and athletes being cautioned to keep their mouths closed while swimming to keep from swallowing the sewage dumped in the
water — and the
current climate of political unrest across the country, this book couldn't come at a better time.
This protects the things you own against common perils
such as fire,
water, theft, vandalism, and artificially generated electrical
current.
It's a good idea to assess
water quality and potential hazards
such as ocean or river
currents before a dog is allowed to enter the
water.
Please bring proof of
current residence
such as payment statement and / or PG&E or
water / trash bill.
This grass can grow in the shallow
waters as there is
such strong protection from winds and
currents by the reef.
This volume of
water movement in
such a small channel is why the
current picks up.
«What's especially concerning about this
current northern fur seal crisis is that this species has a particularly difficult time recovering from unfavorable ocean conditions,
such as these warmer
waters,» says Tenaya Norris, marine scientist at The Marine Mammal Center.
Strong
currents sweep rich plankton harvests into the shallow
water channels around these islands, attracting large, feeding pelagics
such as whale sharks and manta rays.
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.
Within the menus is also a skills screen displaying abilities unlocked, a map and a character screen displaying your
current inventory and tool - belt, active effects, food,
water and well - ness points and other stats
such as how many zombies and players you've killed.
Various elements,
such as wind or
water current, eventually come into play and add even more difficulty to the proceedings.
Tanabe: On my side, it allows for special attributes,
such as each character having a special skill underwater, for example the ability to swim against the
current of
water.
Conservation projects address topics of
current importance
such as developing an understanding of biodiversity and wildlife habitat needs, the contributions of sustainably managed forests to
water quality, and quantifying the value of these forests toward mitigating climate change.
He gained widest fame for his warning, derived from studies of past climate fluctuations, that great flows of fresh
water from melting ice sheets could disrupt Atlantic Ocean
currents and cause regional cooling (
such an idea was caricatured in the Hollywood disaster film «The Day After Tomorrow «-RRB-.
A lot of reseach energy is being devoted to the study of Methane Clathrates — a huge source of greenhouse gases which could be released from the ocean if the thermocline (the buoyant stable layer of warm
water which overlies the near - freezing deep ocean) dropped in depth considerably (due to GHG warming), or especially if the deep ocean
waters were warmed by very, very extreme changes from the
current climate,
such that deep
water temperatures no longer hovered within 4C of freezing, but warmed to something like 18C.
One point I would make is that the relationship between large hurricanes and SSTs as
such will always be a little fuzzy since the presence of warm
water at depth seems to pay a large role in storm intensification (as with Katrina when it crossed the Loop
Current).
Current methane fluxes recorded in the
water column from around these methane hotspots are > 1000x those expected from the observed atmospheric anomolies, so considerable methanotrophic activity could already be activated, making irregularities of microbial consumption potentially even capable of
such a release on its own.
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.
when there are so many other gases
such as methane and
water vapor that are equally or more important and forget the input by the sun and ocean
currents
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.