Not exact matches
«We argue that it was the establishment of the modern deep
ocean circulation — the
ocean conveyor — about 2.7 million years ago, and not a major
change in carbon dioxide concentration
in the atmosphere that
triggered an expansion of the ice sheets
in the northern hemisphere,» says Stella Woodard, lead author and a post-doctoral researcher
in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences.
«
Changes in ocean circulation have been proposed as a
trigger mechanism for the large coupled climate and carbon cycle perturbations at the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM, ca. 55 Ma).
Recent studies have therefore preferred mechanismsthat require a climatological
trigger for carbon injection, for example through enhance - 5 ment of seasonal extremes that caused
changes in ocean circulation, which
in turncould dissociate submarine methane hydrates (Lunt et al., 2011).
The loss of Arctic Sea ice could alter
ocean circulation patterns and
trigger changes in global climate patterns.
«
In 2007 a team of NASA and university scientists has detected an ongoing reversal in Arctic Ocean circulation triggered by atmospheric circulation changes that vary on decade - long time scale
In 2007 a team of NASA and university scientists has detected an ongoing reversal
in Arctic Ocean circulation triggered by atmospheric circulation changes that vary on decade - long time scale
in Arctic
Ocean circulation triggered by atmospheric
circulation changes that vary on decade - long time scales.
The scientists stress that more work is needed to determine whether
changes in ocean circulation initiated the abrupt climate
changes or were an intermediary effect initially
triggered by something else.
«-- A team of NASA and university scientists has detected an ongoing reversal
in Arctic
Ocean circulation triggered by atmospheric
circulation changes that vary on decade - long time scales.
And as the for the reason for this year's Arctic ice melt, NASA and university scientists have detected an ongoing reversal
in Arctic
Ocean circulation triggered by atmospheric
circulation changes that varies on decade - long time scales.
Among the global - scale tipping points identified by earth scientists are the collapse of large ice sheets
in Greenland and Antarctica,
changes in ocean circulation, feedback processes by which warming
triggers more warming, and the acidification of the
ocean.h
When a full - depth
ocean model is used, something intriguing happens: the loss of Arctic sea ice
triggers a far - flung response that mimics climate
change itself, including a slowdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning
Circulation (AMOC), a build - up of heat
in the tropical
oceans over several decades, and a warming of the atmosphere a few miles above the tropics.