Sentences with phrase «atlantic upper ocean»

The other incorrect premise in your question is that the THC is a zero - sum game as far as tropical and extratropical North Atlantic upper ocean heat content (and SST) is concerned.

Not exact matches

The team, which includes Professor Baldwin, will lead innovative new research, which aims to advance current understanding of three key conditions that influence seasonal weather across the continent — the North Atlantic upper - ocean heat content, Arctic sea - ice, and the stratosphere.

For decades, research on climate variations in the Atlantic has focused almost exclusively on the role of ocean circulation as the main driver, specifically the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which carries warm water north in the upper layers of the ocean and cold water south in lower layers like a large conveyor belt.

The upper part of the modern Arctic Ocean is flushed by North Atlantic currents while the Arctic's deep basins are flushed by salty currents formed during sea ice formation at the surface.

Josh and his colleagues published a paper entitled «Recent cooling of the upper ocean ``, but soon found out that the cooling was due to problems in both the earlier XBT data and software problems in a group of North Atlantic Argo floats.

Linear trend (1955 — 2003) of zonally averaged temperature in the upper 1,500 m of the water column of the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and World Oceans.

Located on the upper floors, each of these spacious rooms measures approximately 480 square feet and offers a comfortable sitting area, and partial water views of the Atlantic Ocean or Little Narragansett Bay.

«The rapid warming of the Atlantic Ocean created high pressure zones in the upper atmosphere over that basin and low pressure zones close to the surface of the ocean,» said Prof Axel Timmermann, co-lead and corresponding author from the University of HaOcean created high pressure zones in the upper atmosphere over that basin and low pressure zones close to the surface of the ocean,» said Prof Axel Timmermann, co-lead and corresponding author from the University of Haocean,» said Prof Axel Timmermann, co-lead and corresponding author from the University of Hawaii.

The model shows how heat can be transported from the upper layer to a depth of 1 to 2 kilometers, in particular in parts of the North Atlantic Ocean, notably to the south of Greenland.

Further analysis reveals that overlying surface evaporation and atmospheric convection are modulated as a result of these forced changes to the temperature of the upper coastal Atlantic Ocean.

Evidence from the Pacific and the Atlantic suggests that nutrient supply to the upper productive layer of the ocean is declining due to reductions in the Meridional Overturning Circulation and upwelling (McPhaden and Zhang, 2002; Curry and Mauritzen, 2005) and changes in the deposition of wind - borne nutrients.

Slow variations in upper ocean heat content that have been observed in the subpolar and marginal ice zone regions of the Atlantic since the mid-twentieth century are thought to be related to changes in the strength of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).

I'm not saying 0 - 2000m wont rise some more (probably will a little), just that if the upper Pacific / Atlantic layers aren't gaining there's not much reason for below 700 to go much higher given the top down nature of ocean heating (neglecting geo source).

Except for some La Niña - cooled regions of the tropical Pacific and a few other cool spots, the upper ocean held more heat than average in 2011 in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Southern Oceans.

The CO2 doubling response from CM2.6, over 70 - 80 years, shows that upper - ocean (0 - 300 m) temperature in the Northwest Atlantic Shelf warms at a rate nearly twice as fast as the coarser models and nearly three times faster than the global average.

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation A major current in the Atlantic Ocean, characterized by a northward flow of warm, salty water in the upper layers of the Atlantic, and a southward flow of colder water in the deep Atlantic.

In the case of the upper water in most oceans including the North Atlantic inflow, that temperature is increasing on the same decadal time scales as this ice loss.

Before 2006, our warm salt subduction mechanism does not allow the Atlantic to cool when its subpolar salinity was increasing, because poleward transport of warm salty water and increasing subpolar subduction are parts of the same mechanism of enhanced AMOC upper - ocean transport.

In both experiments the AMOC is intensified in the course of the solar radiation reduction, which is attributed to the thermal effect of the solar forcing: reduced sea surface temperatures and enhanced sea ice formation increase the density of the upper ocean in the North Atlantic and intensify the deepwater formation.

These trends are also accompanied by rising sea levels and upper ocean heat content over similar multi-decadal time scales in the tropical Atlantic.

The vertical subsurface temperature in the tropical Atlantic should have a characteristic anticorrelation pattern with the upper ocean in the observed AMO, but is not produced in Booth et al. (33)(see also ref.

New results reported by the National Oceanography Centre suggest that 38 percent of deep ocean life in the North Atlantic could be lost over the next century due to a reduction of plant and animal life in the upper levels of the oceans that feed deep - sea life.

In this paper the output from several different runs of a global ocean GCM is used to show that the inflow of upper kilometer water in the South Atlantic and the outflow of deep water varies in direct proportion to the westerly wind stress in the circumpolar region of the southern hemisphere.

Figure 5.5: Linear trends (1955 — 1998) of zonally averaged salinity (psu) in the upper 500 m of the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and World Oceans.