Sentences with phrase «waters near the ocean»

However, the data also showed that significant amounts of carbon dioxide were being absorbed by the waters near the ocean surface.

When there is excess CO2 in the atmosphere, water near the ocean surface becomes acidic too quickly for this normal process to take place.

Not exact matches

While investigators initially thought the plane may have gone down quickly in a tight spiral, the debris that washed up on Reunion Island near Madagascar in the Indian Ocean last week suggests that the aircraft may have glided along after running out of fuel and descended slowly into the water.

One explanation for why the season is so active is that all of the components that make hurricanes are near ideal conditions: The ocean waters are at their warmest they get all year (and are somewhat hotter than usual).

Conditions are otherwise favorable for intensification through Sunday, with a moist atmosphere, light wind shear less than 10 knots, and very warm ocean waters near 30 °C (86 °F).

I'd be just as likely to take you on a walk up the mountainside near our house, under the canopy of the trees, so you could listen to the water running in the dozens of creeks dancing down waterfalls of stones, the water bright and cold and clear, heading for the Fraser River, moving towards the fullness of complete ocean.

Tests conducted on water being dumped into the Pacific Ocean near the Fukushima nuclear power plant have found levels of radioactivity millions of times more than is normal in water.

As long as I am near any water my soul sings but I am scared of the ocean haha.

Bragg Certified Organic Sea Kelp comes from pristine Atlantic Ocean waters near Iceland.

Only the downhill par - 4 third comes near the water on the Ocean nine, but the entire nine is a fun, varied romp among cactus - covered slopes and high - priced real estate.

Do NOT leave your toddler near or around water (for example, bathtubs, pools, ponds, lakes, whirlpools, or the ocean) without someone watching her.

On Earth, about a million bacteria are found in a cubic centimeter of ocean water near shore.

The shrimp represent centimeter - sized swimmers, including krill and shrimplike copepods, found throughout the world's oceans that may together be capable of mixing ocean layers — and delivering nutrient - rich deep waters to phytoplankton, or microscopic marine plants, near the surface, the researchers suggest.

But research published yesterday in the journal Nature rebuts this idea, suggesting that it was changes in ocean circulation, not winds, that predominantly led the deep water to surface near Antarctica and exhale carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Additionally, the city is testing duck bill - shaped valves on drainage pipes near the ocean that prevent ocean water during high tides from flowing backward into basements and parking lots.

Photo of the related Opisthoteuthis californiana; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Ed Bowlby, NOAA / Olympic Coast NMS; NOAA / OAR / Office of Ocean Exploration The many octopus species that live beyond the reach of vacationing snorkelers, scuba diving researchers and even near - shore commercial fisheries are relative unknowns compared with the more familiar shallow - water species.

For three years, they observed marine environments near undersea volcanic vents where CO2 levels are high — providing a window into the future acidity of ocean water — along with adjacent areas of normal acidity.

Today, cold water sinks near the Arctic and flows deep below the surface of the Atlantic toward the southern oceans, where it rises up.

So, for example, a big part of what drives a hurricane is the fact that you've got a lot of warm water near the surface of the ocean that is transferring heat into the air, and that's what's moving up, and that is a big part of then what's propelling the entire bigger storm system.

The oxygen content of the ocean may be subject to frequent ups and downs in a very literal sense — that is, in the form of the numerous sea creatures that dine near the surface at night then submerge into the safety of deeper, darker waters at daybreak.

For example, the Antarctic icefish, a pale, near - transparent inhabitant of the frigid South Atlantic Ocean, has not only lost its ancestors» power to make oxygen - binding red hemoglobin (which it does not need in the cold oxygen - rich waters) but the two genes that code for hemoglobin have also gone extinct: one has disappeared, and the other remains as a non-coding «molecular fossil,» a useless remnant that hints at past use but still resides in the icefish DNA.

The wind keeps a layer of warm water near the surface in Indonesia, reducing the temperature difference across the Indian Ocean and so minimising the strength of positive IOD events.

This is not only because harvesting from relatively shallow waters is easier than in the open ocean, but also because fish are much more abundant near the coastal shelf, due to coastal upwelling and the abundance of nutrients available there.

Whether they are living in cold waters near the North Pole or around Antarctica or are visiting the deep ocean, these animals» blubber is vital to their survival.

Water takes a lot of energy to heat, and our oceans are very deep, so sunlight only raises the temperature near the surface.

Because the upwelled waters ran along the surface for a longer period of time, nutrients spent more time near the surface of the ocean where phytoplankton could feed on them for longer.

Looking through the portholes of the submersible ALVIN near the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in 1979, American scientists saw for the first time chimneys, several meters tall, from which black water at about 300 degrees and saturated with minerals shot out.

Eventually, it makes its way back to the surface as the ocean's bottom water circulates and rises anew near the equator (although carbon buried in sediment might stay buried longer).

Exponentially less methane would be able to reach the atmosphere in waters that are thousands of feet deep at the very edge of the shallow seas near continents, which is the area of the ocean where the bulk of methane hydrates are,» Sparrow says.

Three years ago, the comet Hartley - 2 was found to have a D - to - H ratio near that of Earth's oceans — sparking interest in the notion that comet impacts delivered much of Earth's water.

The bathers that gather every summer on the banks of the rivers of the mountain ranges of La Cabrera and El Teleno in León have little reason to suspect that the rocks that they can see near the water are of volcanic origin, over 460 million years old, when an emerging Iberian Peninsula was still on the coast of the continent of Gondwana, on the shore of the Rheic ocean.

Water pressure and thermal shock are intense as oil from the reservoir bubbles up into the well at 140 degrees Fahrenheit, only to hit near - freezing temperatures at the ocean floor, which can cause it to coagulate in the pipes.

In the ocean, however, fishing continued to rely on sailing ships clustered in small slivers of near - shore water.

That's important, because the ROUGHIEs will not be exploring the middle of the ocean; they are designed for use near the water's edge, which offers a special challenge.

The search for this subsurface ocean warmed up after scientists discovered plumes of mineral - rich water vapor squirting out of cracks near the south pole.

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 new results show that atmospheric water in the near - polar region was enriched by a factor of seven relative to Earth's ocean water, implying that water in Mars» permanent ice caps is enriched by 8-fold.

Now cold ocean water from off of the coast of South America piles up near the nearby coastline.

Over a year ago, scientists uncovered a microbe that lives in hot - water geysers on the ocean floor near Iceland.

Some thrive near cracks in the ocean floor — called hydrothermal vents — that spew scalding water.

The simulated ocean should yield insights into a series of possible geochemical reactions that are likely happening near the moon's core, where water - rock interaction is coupled to the thermal cycling of sea water, said team member Kosuke Fujishima, of the Earth - Life Science Institute at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Researchers found that due to warming waters, the edge of the sharks» range could shift as much as 40 miles poleward per decade, pushing the sharks away from the warming oceans near the equator into different habitats.

The Indian Ocean Garbage Patch on a continuous ocean map centered near the south pole The Indian Ocean garbage patch, discovered in 2010, is a gyre of marine litter suspended in the upper water column of the central Indian Ocean, specifically the Indian Ocean Gyre, one of the five major oceanic gOcean Garbage Patch on a continuous ocean map centered near the south pole The Indian Ocean garbage patch, discovered in 2010, is a gyre of marine litter suspended in the upper water column of the central Indian Ocean, specifically the Indian Ocean Gyre, one of the five major oceanic gocean map centered near the south pole The Indian Ocean garbage patch, discovered in 2010, is a gyre of marine litter suspended in the upper water column of the central Indian Ocean, specifically the Indian Ocean Gyre, one of the five major oceanic gOcean garbage patch, discovered in 2010, is a gyre of marine litter suspended in the upper water column of the central Indian Ocean, specifically the Indian Ocean Gyre, one of the five major oceanic gOcean, specifically the Indian Ocean Gyre, one of the five major oceanic gOcean Gyre, one of the five major oceanic gyres.

Hydrothermal vents are located several miles below the surface, on the ocean floor, where the surrounding water is at or near freezing, it is absolutely dark and the pressure is high.

Record and near - record warm ocean waters gave Florida even more of a heat boost, he said.

They found signs that ocean water is pushing miles deeper under the ice than we realized in near a location where both glaciers meet, raising some uncomfortable prospects about how their futures could be intertwined.

Main results show that ice cap melt on Greenland and / or Antarctica injects fresh water into oceans near respective continents causing rapid sea level rise and shuts down AMOC and / or SMOC leading to enormous global climate disruption, including massive storms.»

In other words, the lucky (but small) percentage of the population that lives near the ocean (a good source of magnesium) and eats foods grown in magnesium rich soil, drinks magnesium rich water, and doesn't suffer from stress or consume sugar or caffeine might be ok... but the rest of us might need some additional magnesium.

How can you make time to get into the ocean, sea or nearest to water - even a fresh shower or bath today or this week?

Think about this, too: Coconut trees grow near mineral - rich ocean waters, so products derived from coconut trees are often very high in natural minerals (because the soils near the ocean are high in minerals themselves).