Fig. 1 Maps of CO2 inversion regions (54 land and 30 ocean; shaded) and atmospheric observation network (circle) with mostly surface sites, except for the Japan AirLines (JAL) flight track between Tokyo and Sydney/Brisbane.
The ocean was fifty shades of blue.
The top trends for next spring are suits with mismatched trousers, the shirt jacket, neat windbreakers, ocean-to-sky shades of blue, and faded pencil stripes and dot prints.
The sky seemed as if it had been freshly painted dark blue, and the ocean was a shade of green I had never seen before.
I did go to a party in Venice Beach, to a bungalow near the ocean with bougainvillaea shading the walk, the fire in the pit out back ringed by balding men playing guitar and hand-drumming.
The 456 rooms and suites, most with ocean views, are in shades of white.
On all sides slim slices of beaches were slowly being recaptured by the rising tide, frigatebirds circled like wide-winged queens of a lost world, and the ocean turned to glistening shades of sunset pink.
Then it was back to the boat, sea mist cooling our faces, the ocean taking on varying shades of iridescent green as we drove farther from the shallow waters off the shore.
And though Howland doesn't make enough use of her colorful cast of secondary characters, she evokes the Nantucket setting vividly, from the "quaint, preserved, one of a kind" streets to the ocean, "a million different shades at once, changing with the few clouds that floated above, darkening with depth, reflecting the deep canyons and sandbar stripes below the surface".
