Sentences with phrase «wind and waves»

I agree completely with you about the fact that the work done by wind and waves etc., does not turn into mere heat.

Yet others are limited in scale, such as energy from water or waste derived biomass; or their availability is variable or unpredictable, as with wind and wave power.

That was not the case for our trip because of the strong winds and waves.

The state of our economy is creating some very nasty winds and waves in the lives of those around us.

We are no experts on global warming, but we sure like wind and waves from time to time.

Most of that mixing happens in the top few hundred feet, where winds and waves basically put the surface layer on a spin cycle.

You want a long period swell, not too much wind and wave height between 1.5 & 3.5 meters.

Conditions there were near perfect with light offshore winds and the waves were about as big as yesterday, around chest to shoulder high.

Less sea ice cover and a shorter ice season allows wind and wave action to attack the previously ice - protected coastline, especially during the autumn storm season.

With good wind and waves also comes good opportunity for surfing.

High winds and waves as high as twenty - three feet were the cause of the flooding.

These strong winter systems are notorious for packing big winds and waves to go along with heavy snow!

Wind and waves pushed them off course, and the equations engineers had devised to correct for these errors were far off.

Yet one physicist says it is a mistake to assume that energy sources like wind and waves are truly renewable.

The paper, by Axel Kleidon, from the Max Planck Institute in Jena, Germany, certainly took an intriguing look at the limits of clean energy's poster - children of wind and wave power.

Unprecedented views of surface wind and wave fields in storms are now provided by microwave sensors on - board polar orbiting satellites.

Because of prevailing winds and wave conditions, this tour is offered from May 1 through September 30 only and is limited to ages 10 and up.

Installing, maintaining, disassembling and replacing these components must be done using large jack - up platforms, which is tricky and extremely expensive even in calm seas, and downright dangerous when winds and waves start kicking up.

Weathers believes that «winds and waves kick surface scum high into the air, where it can be incorporated into the fog that moves inland.»

Lagoons formed by fringing barrier reefs are sheltered from wind and waves and filled with colorful coral gardens and sand flats where stingrays and turtles cruise.

You can animate the Mornington Peninsula Surf map or show live wind and wave conditions as reported from wavebuoys and local weather stations.

Gale force winds and waves buffeted the life raft, and the only way the crew could keep hold of it was to flip it over and hang onto it from underneath, floating in the water.

One who can still rebuke winds and waves and spit out the words, «Peace!

I think more research should be put into what makes a good, productive and healthy artificial reef, and that the anchoring foundations of wind and wave farms should be built to those specifications (while of course also meeting other engineering objectives of durability and such).

Multiple and fragmented views from different vantage points, collaging representational imagery with topographical and astral maps, layering wind and wave patterns, all provide multiple points of entry into Grave's artworks and imagination.

Microwave measurements penetrate thick convective storm clouds, observing wind and wave fields with good accuracy.

With wind and waves too severe to perform the operation, the whales must be moved down shore to a protected inlet, but for many, the wait to be relocated has been too long.

There's a famous wartime cartoon by David Low, drawn after we were thrown off the Continent in 1940, of a British soldier shaking his fist at wind and waves from a sea - girt rock and proclaiming, «Very well, alone.»

Renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and wave just compound this unpredictability: changes in local cloud cover, wind speed and the like produce irregular peaks and troughs that do not necessarily correspond with spikes in demand.

Arriving at 8.15 AM to a rising tide, clean off shore wind and wave height in the chest to well over head class.

Safety will always take priority, and regardless of killer whale activity, we will only use a route if wind and wave conditions are suitable.

A new report shows that over the last two decades, ocean wind and waves have increased susbstantially.

For Europeans opposed to nuclear energy (the biggest source of low - carbon energy in the EU), the portmanteau places a huge bet on technologies such as wind and wave power, setting a target to triple Europe's overall use of renewable energies by 2020.

As wind and waves batter the beaches, the Hague is worried the unprecedented swarms of visitors to the Pokestops in Kijkduin are damaging the sand dunes.

Trailing another ship is not independence, and if, renouncing that, you renounce also a compass of your own, you are hopelessly beaten up and down the seas by shifting winds and waves, which is the very opposite of independence.

None of this tells us precisely what level of power was released in Galilee and whether, amid God's mysteries, Jesus actually could command a spiritual immune system powerful enough to still actual wind and waves.

To better understand the effects of overwash, USGS used dynamic modeling that takes into account storm winds and wave activity coupled with sea - level rise of between 0.5 and 2 meters (1.6 and 6.5 feet).

Additionally, they will use a buoy on the lake to measure wind and wave conditions.

In 2012, Hurricane Sandy's intense wind and waves reshaped hundreds of miles of coastline.

From capturing wind and wave energy off our shores to harnessing human energy from the floors of Grand Central Terminal or tapping heat under the earth's crust, there are exciting developments on the outer reaches of our imagination.

What she discovered was shocking: Tons of dangerous chemicals and pesticides from the United States, Europe, and Asia are being carried to the Arctic by northbound winds and waves and amplified in the ocean's food web.

In his debut novel, Arif Anwar gathers stories in the manner that wind and waves build in a massive storm.

Today we enjoy all manner of weather prediction, from daily temperature forecasts and rain probabilities to warnings of severe storms replete with heavy winds and wave surges.

Wind and waves typically come out of the northwest or west.

Strong winds and waves kept on rocking the catamaran.