Sentences with phrase «winds and water currents»

The team's analysis, published last spring in the Journal of Anthropological Research [abstract], also evaluated the role of wind and water currents, concluding that the traders may have spent a few months in Mexico and returned when currents shifted.

Her marks have their own identities, the artist says; they are characters that evolve and interact with the systems of motion - flight patterns, wind and water currents, airports, highways, and subways - depicted in these densely layered paintings.

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

There's wind and water currents and clouds covering the ocean and moving in semi-random ways.

Not exact matches

Overview of Renewable Energy on the Outer Continental Shelf — BOEM is responsible for offshore renewable energy development in Federal waters and anticipates future development on the OCS from three general sources: offshore wind, ocean wave, and ocean current energy.

Trade winds and currents have landed this massive trash heap from around the world into what used to be clean waters.

Water droplets and ice crystals in the atmosphere condensed on the infusion of dust particles and settled into pouch - like formations due to wind currents.

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.

He watched as the glassy, protected waters of the sound gave way to ripples and sparkling wavelets, hints of the interplay between wind and sea and the currents that course around the globe.

Antarctica's strong Circumpolar Deep Current circles the entire continent, driven by strong winds called westerlies, which also create the Southern Ocean's dangerous and choppy waters.

The currents are generated from the forces acting upon the water like the earth's rotation, the wind, the temperature and salinity differences and the gravitation of the moon.

However, a combination of northerly winds and currents helped trap the bloom near where the Maumee River brings the majority of nutrients into the lake and right where Toledo's water intake happens to be.

Winds over the ocean (blue arrow) also create currents on the surface, pushing the water up one side of the wave and down the other.

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.

But for reasons that are still not clear, this pattern is broken every three to seven years, when the winds and currents reverse and the warm surface waters spread east towards the Americas, taking the rain with them.

He says that the cost of water - flow power production is less than that of solar or wind and that current - based generators can be arranged in large networks to power thousands of homes.

Climate change could further shift wind patterns and ocean currents, expanding cold water further north along the coasts of Isabela and Fernandina and driving fish populations higher, according to the new study.

The ice formation and offshore winds produce strong currents in these shallow marginal seas, which stir up the sediment and carry the methane produced there into the water column.

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.

The wind changes were found to be heaving warm currents from deeper waters up into a zone where the Antarctic ice sheet is vulnerable to melt and crumble from beneath — the area where towers of ice sit atop submerged ground.

The OIST design is a hybrid of a kite and a wind turbine: an ocean - current turbine is anchored to seabed with a line and floats in the current while water rotates its three blades.

Often the bridges lack sturdy supports and hang between leaves or reeds that vibrate in wind or water currents, so researchers long wondered how these seemingly flimsy structures stay up.

What they discovered is a near - perfect system in which krill aggregations situated over the Palm Deep Canyon — a region of nutrient - rich waters that produce a lot of food for the krill — are delivered close to shore by tidal currents and winds.

The prevailing surface winds over the tropical Pacific blow from east - to - west (easterlies), and tend drive a surface current, pushing (advecting) the warm surface water westward.

The winds in turn drive the ocean currents that keep the cold water in the east and the water warm in the west.

I have a special interest in plankton interactions with the physical environment; looking for quantitative and mechanistic links to current structure, water mass shifts, seasonal cycles, interannual variability, climate - related signals, wind forcing, etc..

Higher water temperatures near the Equator could reduce winds and current, allowing sargassum to accumulate before being carried by currents to the north.

There were vast and silent forces swirling around me: strong water currents created by distant winds and large waves, the gravitational pull of moon and sun, and the rapid spinning of the earth.

In contrast to Agia Prokopios, Amitis has good exposure to the northern winds, making it the best choice for fans of adventurous water sports including kite surfing and windsurfing, but is not suitable for novice swimmers due to its stronger currents.

This grass can grow in the shallow waters as there is such strong protection from winds and currents by the reef.

The same brisk trade winds and strong currents that make the waters dangerous for swimming also churn up flotsam and jetsam — and intrepid beachcombers.

With westerly winds, currents can flow out from the back lagoon towards the reef with drastic increases in suspended sediment This is the first major opening for water exchange from Chetumal Bay, whose water quality is of increasing concern, as it receives wastes from agricultural processing and sewage disposal.

Frequent changes in current strength, visibility and water temperature can be expected during the day, except when winds come from the north or northwest.

Yes, you will need a «spring suit» wetsuit if you are attending CHICABRAVA anytime from late November - early April, when a combination of coastal currents and wind chill can make the water wetsuit worthy (as low as 65 degrees F).

The largest and most popular beach in the area is Ilica Beach, which has warm, clear waters and stronger wind currents that will keep you cool, although you may want to pack a windbreak.

Beachfront (please note due to seasonal wind and currents the beach is not always suitable for swimming and water sports)

Various elements, such as wind or water current, eventually come into play and add even more difficulty to the proceedings.

Kine's assistance allowed him to swim against strong water currents, and Coo was able to fly against strong winds.

Princen has also been known to reference scientific measuring systems, mapping, and amateur anthropology in his work, and his artistic practice has involved plotting ecological changes — water currents, wind patterns, and soil erosion, as well as the impacts of urban developments on the Dutch landscape.

Sala wanted to imagine how a fictional journey through the winds, the waves, and the water currents of the high seas would affect a musical masterpiece of the age of Enlightenment; what would become of Mozart's Clarinet concerto if it were to float and drift like a message in a bottle.

«piling up» occurs when the winds and currents push the ice landward, into cooler air and waters.

While currents and winds play a role, scientists say, the expanding open water in the far north provides the latest evidence that the Arctic Ocean, long a frozen region hostile to all but nuclear submariners and seal hunters, is transforming in summers to more of an open ocean.

The prevailing surface winds over the tropical Pacific blow from east - to - west (easterlies), and tend drive a surface current, pushing (advecting) the warm surface water westward.

Predicting sea ice extent is easy if you can mentally calculate wind variations, momentum, sea currents, multi year ice compression ratios, tidal synergy with weather patterns, the AO, the temperature of ice sea water and air, how cloudy it will be, salinity, pycnocline convection rates, sea surface to air interface, CO2 exchange, ice thickness distributions.....

(In real life I understand that mixing is the main agent of deeper warming in the ocean due to winds, currents, etc.) Only the top skin of water heats up and therefore lower warming must be by diffusion, or are convection cells within the water inevitable?

It's always worth remembering that the other end of the AMOC involves two main factors: (1) vorticity - mixing of heat from surface waters into the deep abyssal ocean (which decreases density causing the Atlantic Deep Water to start rising above the colder Antarctic Bottom Water) and (2) the wind - driven upwelling around the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

Many of the surface currents of the world oceans (i.e., the ocean «gyres» which appear as rotating horizontal current systems in the upper ocean) are driven by the wind, however, the sinking in the Arctic is related to the buoyancy forcing (effects that change either the temperature or salinity of the water, and hence its buoyancy).

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.

Heat is transferred from deeper to colder water under the influence of winds and currents.

In normal years, spring and summer winds lead to upwelling of cold, nutrient - rich waters at the coast, fueling the highly productive California Current ecosystem.