Sentences with phrase «a warm current»

Warm currents of the Meditererranian Sea and an average of 300 days of sunshine a year determine the mild climate that lets chiles — called peperoncini in Italy — grow so well here.

This cycle coincides with the natural rise and fall of sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic, which fluctuate roughly 0.2 degree Celsius every 60 years as warm currents shift.

Sensors that have plumbed the depths of Arctic seas since 2002 have found warm currents creeping up from the Atlantic Ocean and helping drive the dramatic retreat of sea ice there over the last decade.

The fall of the temperature of the sea water is sometimes a sign of the proximity of ice, although in regions where there is an intermixture of cold and warm currents going on, as at the junction of the Labrador Current and the Gulf Stream, the temperature of the sea has been known to rise as the ice is approached.

This sandy heap actually causes the oozing ice to slow, pile up and thicken slightly behind it — providing a buffer that may stabilize the ice sheet in the face of those warm currents.

Warm currents can melt the floating ice shelves that hold back ice on land.

The application of gentle cooling and warming currents inside the ear canal can provide relief for migraine sufferers, new research at the University of Kent has helped show.

Also at the AGU meeting, Yasunari's co-author and Goddard colleague William Lau presented the results of a separate study today suggesting that soot heating the atmosphere over India could accelerate the glacier - melting effects of the warm currents that rise up to the Himalayan chain, in a «heat pump» effect.

Warmer oceans have also caused a distinct change in El Niño events — the warmer currents associated with the cycle have now been observed towards the central Pacific rather than the west, according to the Sheffield scientists.

The wind changes were found to be heaving warm currents from deeper waters up into a zone where the Antarctic ice sheet is vulnerable to melt and crumble from beneath — the area where towers of ice sit atop submerged ground.

Every word that as come before defies his future, each inspiration that has flown from his pen as effortlessly as birds gliding on warm currents conspires against new rivals.

The elk rose to their feet just ahead of her, and at first she thought they had somehow scented her, even though the day's warming currents had not yet begun to ascend the hill — even though the last of the night's heavier, cooling currents were still sliding in rolling waves down the mountain, the faint breeze in her face carrying the ripe scent of the herd downhill, straight to her.

A circular room studded with windows eight metres (26 feet) beneath the ocean's surface reveals up to 300 species of colourful coral, fish and other marine life, fed by an unusually warm current.

San Miguel Island lies in an area of water that overlaps two currents - a cold current moving down the Pacific coast from Alaska and a warm current moving up the Pacific coast from Mexico.

Those two currents meet and intermingle not only water, but many of the species associated with corresponding cold and warm currents.

As we approached what is known as the Antarctic Boundary line where we crossed into Antarctic waters, the colder air and water currents from the south mixed with the warmer currents of the north causing a thick hazy fog.

The mingling of cool, nutrient - rich waters from the north with warm currents from the south form a dynamic transition zone that is home to a myriad of sea life from microscopic plankton to blue whales.

Located on the eastern side of Mauritius, an island glimmering in the warm currents of the Indian Ocean, Blue Bay is protected by a vast coral reef that protects the beach from larger wave breaks, allowing for calm, safe swimming.

In 2012, a new record low was established, and a contributor to this was an unusually warm current that merged with the Beaufort Sea Gyre.

although the experts are divided on what mix of forces is in play — from winds to warm currents to the underlying warming of the global climate from accumulating greenhouse gases.»

Many think so, although the experts are divided on what mix of forces is in play — from winds to warm currents to the underlying warming of the global climate from accumulating greenhouse gases.

The loss of heat from the warm current would indeed be inhibited by the slightly lower thermal gradient due to the «inversion layer» caused by the warmed skin.

35 Question 5 «A warm current can cause the land it passes to have a temperate climate.»

A warm current can cause land that it passes to have a temperate (mild) climate when it would otherwise be cold.

13 The Oceans and Climate A warm current can cause land that it passes to have a temperate (mild) climate when it would otherwise be cold.

We have had lengthy heating phase caused by a spurt of insolation, now we have had a big El Nino, a subsequent shift to La Nina and the resulting warm currents moving up the the Western Pacific, causing warming polar oceans and changes in atmospheric water vapor content.

The Gulf Stream is a warm current that begins in the tropics.

The warm currents?

Of course, this warm current warms the air above it causing more evaporation and therefore more storms for the western U.S. creating heavy rains, flooding, and mudslides in California and more tornadoes in Florida.

Once when we were at periscope depth, we entered a warm current and immediately dropped 400 ft. due to the difference in the density of warm water.

Methane Hydrates» Melt - was first observed to be accelerating during the last decade, with sufficient ocean warming reaching the hydrates in the sea bed of continental shelves off Norway and eastern Canada, where the hydrate stocks are vulnerable to newly warmed currents.

Those warm currents melted the bottoms of any glaciers that terminated in the ocean.

- What percentage of Arctic sea ice loss / ice volume loss is attributable to warm currents entering, apparently for the first time, a decade or so ago into the Arctic?

Strong wind may also play a factor in keeping sea ice up against an edge as opposed to growing out to sea, especially in the case of a warm current keeping the edge melted and soft.

The dramatic finding comes from a study of ocean circulation in the North Atlantic, which found a 30 % reduction in the warm currents that carry water north from the Gulf Stream.

But the actual record, 4.17 m square km in 2007, was the product of an unusual combination of sunny days, cloudless skies and warm currents flowing up from mid-latitudes.

Such things as the closing of the isthmus of Panama, and the thrusting of the Himalyas 10 km into the equatorial atmospheric winds, seem to have been what initiated the onset of the current cycles of ice ages, while when the Panama gap was open and warm currents could flow round the world, the earth was warmer than today.

Warm currents transport heat from lower latitudes poleward and tend to occur on the western sides of oceans.

The real cause of Arctic warming is a rearrangement of the North Atlantic current system at the turn of the century that brought warm currents like the Gulf Stream into the Arctic Ocean.

And scientists have published dire warnings that several ice shelves in West Antarctica are being undermined by warm currents where they connect to the ocean floor.

The conclusion is inevitable that warm currents, not the greenhouse effect, are warming the Arctic.

By 1961 the oceanographer Henry Stommel was beginning to worry that these warming currents might stop flowing if too much fresh water was added to the surface of the northern seas.

Direct measurement of the temperature of warm currents that reach the Arctic in 2010 shows that water entering the Arctic now is warmer than it has been anytime within the last two thousand years.

The warm current splits, some heading west toward Greenland, and the rest continuing north into the Greenland Sea, keeping a large area free of sea ice.

The sunlight never even reaches the water unless the warm currents melt the sea ice first.

Partly health - based, but largely down to warming currents forcing the algae partners of coral to desert their homes, this «disease» seems due to acidification of sea water.

Warm Currents: warmer climate Cold Currents: cooler climate

Trade winds, upwelling warmer currents, etc but not teleported [magic / Lacis] heat.

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