Sentences with phrase «water currents travel»

8 Warm water currents travel away from equator.

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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.

Under normal conditions, the trade winds and ocean currents in the tropical Pacific travel from the Americas to Asia, maintaining a pool of very warm water and a related area of intense tropical rainfall around Indonesia.

It seems that somehow the virus can actually spread against ocean currents and can travel faster than pilchards can swim, says Michael Hine, a marine pathologist at the New Zealand National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research.

The submersible will travel back and forth through an abyssal current of Antarctic Bottom Water along the Orkney Passage while measuring the intensity of the turbulence.

It travelled back and forth through an abyssal current of Antarctic Bottom Water along the Orkney Passage, sometimes in water colder than 0 °C and in currents up to 1 knot, while measuring the intensity of the turbulWater along the Orkney Passage, sometimes in water colder than 0 °C and in currents up to 1 knot, while measuring the intensity of the turbulwater colder than 0 °C and in currents up to 1 knot, while measuring the intensity of the turbulence.

But Richard Pyle, a researcher at Hawaii's Bishop Museum, said he and other scientists have concluded that the ecological interconnectedess of the region — including the fish larvae that are dispersed on currents, and the sharks and other pelagic fish that travel vast distances — extends beyond federal waters.

Pearce traveled to more than thirty countries while researching When the Rivers Run Dry, examining the current state of crucial water sources like the Indus River in Pakistan, the Colorado River in the United States, and the Yellow and Yangzte rivers in China.

When waves break strongly in some locations and weakly in others, this can cause circulation cells which are seen as rip currents: narrow, fast - moving belts of water traveling offshore.

New research, published this month in Environmental Health Perspectives, shows that persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including the insecticide DDT, travel in air and water currents around the world's -LSB-...]

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Over the years her works have made reference to architecture, traffic patterns, wind and water currents, migrations, military plans, border crossings, and travel.

Apparently, they traveled thousands of miles on Atlantic currents and ended up above Norway with an unusual — but naturally cyclic — pulse of warm water, not as a direct result of overall warming climate, say the researchers.

During the warm period, faster currents cause more tropical water to travel to the North Atlantic, warming both the surface and the deep water.

Icebergs travel with ocean currents, sometimes smashing up against the shore or getting caught in shallow waters.

But they can survive for long periods in salt - water without eating or drinking, so by only travelling when surface currents are favourable, they would be able to move long distances by sea.

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