Surface Waters in a sentence

The formation of both of these waters involves the conversion of warm salty northward flowing surface waters to cold dense deep waters behind the Greenland-Iceland-Scotland Ridge.

Overall, the mixing of deep and surface waters takes far longer than the mixing of atmospheric COmain with the surface waters, and as a result water from some deep ocean areas has an apparent radiocarbon age of several thousand years.

In polar waters, nutrients accumulate in surface waters during the dark winter months when plants cannot grow.

The deeper confined aquifer also has sufficient hydrological connection with the surface waters of the valley that they are not considered for the purposes of Colorado water law "nontributary" waters which could legally be mined.

On Feb. 10, seven days after the crash, the Environmental Protection Agency that chemicals were “known to have been and continue to be” released to the air, surface soil and surface waters.

Surface waters and aquatic animals Both the lower pH and higher aluminium concentrations in surface water that occur as a result of acid rain can cause damage to fish and other aquatic animals.

Hypoxia is low or depleted oxygen levels in surface waters that can be harmful to aquatic species and can in some cases increase production of harmful greenhouse gases from rivers.

El Niño weather phenomenon, or the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, has hit the provinces of Bataan and Zambales, a Department of Agriculture (DA) official said.

Organic waste, in particular, harbours rodents and insects that transmit diseases to humans, produces odours during decomposition and leaches into underground and surface waters.

The phenomenon is said to warm the surface waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean, leading to a rise in global average temperatures.

High levels of antibiotic residues, other medicines and chemicals present in Bangladesh's ponds, canals, lakes, rivers and other surface waters are contributing to a spike in antibiotic resistance in the country, says a new study.

Most were years, when warm surface waters spread across the Pacific.

But by 2010, it has spread to surface waters in Delhi, and can now be found in over 100 countries, including new variants.

Currently only 40% of surface waters are deemed to have good status, according to the latest report by the EU executive, which highlighted problems of pollution and human activity that disrupts the flow of rivers.

For example, if a stream is protected under state law, but no longer under federal law, and something pollutes the surface waters and flows downstream to a reach of the waterbody that is federally protected, who is supposed to manage that?

The fund will now require conservation of specific resources, including wildlife habitats, surface waters, scenic views, public trails and historic features, as well as minimizing sprawl.

The surface waters are unsafe at least at times for swimming, fishing and other activities.

All plankton ecosystems are driven by the input of solar energy (but see chemosynthesis ), confining primary production to surface waters, and to geographical regions and seasons having abundant light.

At depths where no primary production occurs, zooplankton and bacterioplankton instead consume organic material sinking from more productive surface waters above.

Because of this bloom-and-bust cycle, diatoms are believed to play a disproportionately important role in the export of carbon from oceanic surface waters citation (see also the biological pump ).