Sentence examples for buoys from inspiring English sources

First, they focus on ocean surface temperature measurements from floating buoys and from ship-board sensors.

Once out on the night fishing run, when the nets are cast, with tea-tray sized cork buoys topped with diesel-lit, naked flames as markers, we drink warm, sugary chai as the sun sets over the Arabian Sea.

We practised tacking into the wind and gybing with it at our backs and became proficient in tying up to buoys and jetties, anchoring, tying knots... Now all we had to do was persuade someone to hire a £200,000 yacht for as little money as possible to a group of people with virtually no experience.

We know that temperatures measured by ship sensors are often warmer than temperatures measured by buoys, in part because of the heat generated by the ship engine.

Noaa's historical observations were thrown out by unaccounted-for differences between the measurements taken by ships using buckets and ships using thermometers in their engine in-takes, the increased use of ocean buoys and a large increase in the number of land-based monitoring stations.

Although satellites peer down on Earth to monitor parts of its atmosphere, oceans, forests and deserts, and although fixed weather stations and nomadic buoys and balloons provide accurate readings from individual spots, nobody is responsible for joining up the dots to reveal the bigger picture.Where people do not live, the situation is even worse.

An estimated record turnout of 66.4% of voters also buoys the BJP, adding to the strength of its likely mandate.

This turns a generator, and the electricity produced is stored in a battery.The navy is interested in power buoys as a possible way of supplying energy to the unmanned underwater vehicles that it uses for reconnaissance, surveying the seabed, and tracking enemy submarines.

The cost of his buoys' electricity is currently around seven cents a kW-hour, but he expects this to fall to about three cents a kW-hour in commercial production, which would be competitive with conventional generators.

As a result, about a third of Stirling's freshwater comes from desalination driven by wave power.Carnegie aspires to bigger and better buoys it hopes will generate a megawatt each when launched in 2017.

Ceto was the ancient Greek goddess of sea monsters, and Carnegie's particular monsters are buoys that resemble giant macaroons.