Sentences with phrase «years near the ocean»

Oh, I could spend days / weeks / months / years near the ocean.

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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).

Despite the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year — which Avery says the company has almost completely recovered from — the nation is still demanding shrimp from oceans near U.S. borders.

Some metal materials rust, so you must apply a corrosion protection every few years, especially in climates near the ocean where salt and humidity are an issue.

The additional warming caused a near - doubling of melt rates in the twenty - year period from 1995 to 2015 compared to previous times when the same blocking and ocean conditions were present.

Roughly 800 million years ago, in the late Proterozoic Eon, phosphorus, a chemical element essential to all life, began to accumulate in shallow ocean zones near coastlines widely considered to be the birthplace of animals and other complex organisms, according to a new study by geoscientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Yale University.

Scientists estimate that one - third of the world's acid rain falls near the coasts, carrying some 100 million tons of nitrogen oxide, ammonia, and sulfur dioxide into the ocean each year.

The Pew Environment Group's Global Ocean Legacy program has set its sights on two further massive protection areas in the near future: they hope to see New Zealand approve a 630,000 square km area in the Kermadec Islands later this year, and Australia protect 900,000 square km in the Coral Sea in 2012.

According to Hassanzadeh, the same vertical flow could explain why oceanic vortices, such as those formed near the Straits of Gibraltar, can last for years in the Atlantic Ocean.

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.

A study described here today at the American Geophysical Union's biennial Ocean Sciences Meeting shows that RNA's chemical building blocks fall apart within days to years at temperatures near boiling — a finding that poses problems for some origin of life theories, especially ones picturing that life arose in scalding settings such as deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

That began to change last year with the discovery of DNA sequences for an organism that no one has ever actually seen living near a deep - sea vent on the ocean floor.

Scientists with the Caitlin Arctic Survey have been utilizing a new device on this year's 10 - week expedition on the edge of the Arctic Ocean near Ellef Ringnes Island, Canada: a unique pedal - powered winch built to haul a 50 - kilogram scientific payload 200 meters below the sea ice.

These sediments, collected in modern day Iran, were deposited 252 - 246 million years ago in a relatively shallow tropical ocean near the equator.

In some parts of the Arctic Ocean, the shallow regions near continents may be one of the settings where methane hydrates are breaking down now due to warming processes over the past 15,000 years.

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.

«These rocks were deposited on the ocean floor 440 million years ago near the south pole, and its components were oriented in the direction of the Earth's magnetic field at the time (N - S),» explains Javier Fernández Lozano, a geologist at the University of Salamanca and co-author of the research.

Looks like that skirmish between Japan and China last year over the neodymium and lanthanum required in the production of electronics has been resolved, now that Japan has stumbled over their own supplies in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii.

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

Ice shelves near their grounding lines (Fig. 13 of Jenkins and Doake, 1991) are sensitive to temperature of the proximate ocean, with ice shelf melting increasing 1 m per year for each 0.1 ◦ C temperature increase (Rignot and Jacobs, 2002).

The decrease over the last 20 years is well substantiated by observation and is indistinguishable from the calculated decline assuming that the surface ocean is in near thermodynamic equilibrium with increasing CO2 concentration of the atmosphere.

Natural variability is primarily controlled by exchange of heat between the ocean and the atmosphere, but it is an extremely complex process and if we want to develop better near - term predictive skills — which is looking not at what's going to happen in the next three months but what's going to happen between the next year and 10 years or 20 years or so — if we want to expand our understanding there, we have to understand natural variability better than we do today.

Last year, while on a family vacation near Astoria, Oregon, we stopped by Fort Clatsop where Lewis & Clark spent the winter months after reaching the Pacific Ocean.

It's getting cooler these days and I really miss, that I was near an ocean this year for summer... probably, it...

Playing Lipstadt to near perfection is Rachel Weisz, who has had as good a year that an actor could have (She's already had good performances in The Light Between Oceans & Complete Unkown).

Perched on limestone cliffs above the Indian Ocean near Jimbaran Bay on Bali's south - western peninsula, Ayana last year renovated its fun Kids» Club and launched a new kids program to better cater for families.

Continuing to expand their brand under the vision of «unearthing the exceptional» this year has also seen Mantis embark on the development of a five star hotel on the island of St. Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean, 2,000 km from the nearest major land mass.

For years the waterfall poured directly into the ocean until a massive fire, landslide and highway reconstruction project near the area in 1983 - 84 filled the cove with enough material to form a sandy beach several dozen feet out.

On the western coast of Mauritius, an island that lies like a jewel on the glassy belt of the Indian Ocean, is nestled Flic en Flac, a small town that emerged 20 years ago from a sleepy fishing village near a beautiful beach.

Then suddenly, in the last ten thousand years — a mere 0.4 % eye blink of time — our population increased over 1000 times, we decimated the earth's stocks of non-renewable resources, we cut down over 90 % of the planet's forests, we fished her oceans to the edge of extinction, and we live in a near - constant state of conflict with each other.

The graph of ocean heat content shows a slight decline in the year 2010; this co-occurred with a decline in sea surface and a record (or near record) surface temperature.

However their predictions are about much more than just the average near - surface air temperature, they are mainly focused on how heat mixes into the ocean and how that affects the rise in surface temperature as CO2 is doubled over 100 years.

Indeed the ice cores show a remarkable (near) linear response of CO2 to temperature changes, be it overall ~ 8 ppmv / K for the 420,000 years Vostok ice core, where K more or less reflects the SH ocean temperature.

The discovery comes with the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) nearing completion of its new five - year offshore leasing program, which will blueprint federal lease sales from 2017 - 2022.

Near - global ocean temperature data sets made available in recent years allow a direct calculation of thermal expansion.

The GRACE observations over Antarctica suggest a near - zero change due to combined ice and solid earth mass redistribution; the magnitude of our GIA correction is substantially smaller than previous models have suggested and hence we produce a systematically lower estimate of ice mass change from GRACE data: we estimate that Antarctica has lost 69 ± 18 Gigatonnes per year (Gt / yr) into the oceans over 2002 - 2010 — equivalent to +0.19 mm / yr globally - averaged sea level change, or about 6 % of the sea - level change during that period.

But as about 150 GtC as CO2 over the seasons is exchanged between atmosphere and biosphere / oceans, a huge part (near 20 %) of the «human» CO2 is replaced by «natural» CO2 each year, thus removing a part of the human d13C fingerprint.

Canadian Ice Service, 3.8, Heuristic Arctic Ocean September sea ice extents (while expected to be well below the 1979 ‐ 2013 average of 6.4 million square kilometres, and while expected to continue to be near or below 4.0 million square kilometres) are therefore expected to experience a slight recovery, preventing a repeat of last year's record.

17 El Nino verses La Nina El Niño La Niña Trade winds weaken Warm ocean water replaces offshore cold water near South America Irregular intervals of three to seven years Wetter than average winters in NC La Niña Normal conditions between El Nino events When surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific are colder than average The southern US is usually warmer and dryer in climate

Although 2008 was the coolest year of the decade, due to strong cooling of the tropical Pacific Ocean, 2009 saw a return to near - record global temperatures.

«Whether it's a record this year or the year before isn't maybe as newsworthy as just the fact that we're on this long - term decline, and we're going to see an Arctic Ocean that's ice - free in summers in the near future.»

130,000 years ago temperatures near the poles were higher than today, forests growing up to the Arctic Ocean, all permafrost melted, ice free North Pole at least in summer.

That is the case for the oceans surface layer, which is very fast (1 - 2 years for a near complete exchange) but saturates already at 10 % of the extra amount in the atmosphere.

The number of vertical oxygen profiles collected by all of these floats, reaching depths near 1000 meters, now greatly exceeds the number that ships collect each year in the open ocean [Johnson et al., 2015].

Also From the Planktos Institute «Fortunately the utility and efficacy of iron micro-nutrient ocean eco-restoration is near to hand and has benefitted from 20 years and $ 200 million in public research funds.

Meanwhile, a U.N. report predicted $ 1 trillion in annual damage from ocean acidification if carbon pollution is not curbed, and the Antarctic ice pack appears to have grown this year partly because fresh water from melting glaciers has raised the freezing point of the near - shore Southern Oocean acidification if carbon pollution is not curbed, and the Antarctic ice pack appears to have grown this year partly because fresh water from melting glaciers has raised the freezing point of the near - shore Southern OceanOcean.

Finally, the fact that both the oceans and the atmosphere are at their all time highest temperatures over the past 10 year average from instrument record and through extrapolation to near - term paleodata, we can see a remarkable consistent effect of what increasing greenhouse gases do to overall alterations in Earth's non-tectonic energy storage.

If Arctic Sea ice recovers, ocean heat content declines, and near surface temperatures decline over a 10 year period... why then we might actually have something really worth getting excited about.

The 18.6 year Lunar tidal oscillation produces a «standing wave» pattern (with a peak to peak height ~ 16 mm) in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans that has nodes at + / - 35 degrees of latitude and anti-nodes near + / - 70 to 90 degrees and on the Equator.