Sentence examples for mean open water from inspiring English sources
But low levels of ice do not mean open water everywhere.
However, while schools were rare under piers they could be very large, so that abundance greatly exceeded mean open water abundance variance so as to preclude confidence in differences among piers.
By about forty-five thousago years ago, modern humans had already reached Australia, a journey that, even mid-ice age, meant crossing open water.
More open water means more light, which means more photosynthesis.
"[There is] something called the ice-albedo feedback, which means that when you have less ice, it means there's more open water and therefore the ocean absorbs more radiation and will continue to warm," he said.
More open water means less resting and breeding room for walruses, smaller and more dangerous hunting grounds for polar bears and people, and dramatic shifts in the phytoplankton blooms that form the foundation of the Arctic food web.
The rapid realisation that untethered dolphins could be trained to carry out tasks in open water, meant the research quickly evolved into a classified training programme, prompting rumours that the Navy was honing an elite cadre of killer dolphins.
More open water also means that more heat from the sun is absorbed by the dark, ice-free surface of the Arctic Ocean, triggering an accelerating cycle of warming that can alter ocean circulation and, in turn, the entire global climate.
