Sentences with phrase «global oceans provide»

Global oceans provide many vital «silent services» besides being a source of food, and carbon sequestration is one of its most important.

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Those analyses are likely to take several weeks, but should provide important insights about the composition of the global ocean beneath Enceladus» surface and any hydrothermal activity occurring on the ocean floor.

In the current context of global warming it is important to assess the impacts that changes in ocean and climate may have on Antarctica, and reconstructing past climate fluctuations provides vital information on the responses and possible feedback mechanisms within the climate system.

Ocean floats provide yet more evidence of global warming, revealing that rainy regions are getting wetter and dry regions drier much faster than predicted

Could boosting the ocean's iron levels really prevent global warming; the results emerging from an astonishing experiment that could provide the answer

New NOAA - led research maps the distribution of aragonite saturation state in both surface and subsurface waters of the global ocean and provides further evidence that ocean acidification is happening on a global scale.

Sentinel - 3 measurements like this will be used to monitor and understand large - scale global dynamics and provide critical information for ocean and weather forecasting.

Extreme weather does not prove the existence of global warming, but climate change is likely to exaggerate it — by messing with ocean currents, providing extra heat to forming tornadoes, bolstering heat waves, lengthening droughts and causing more precipitation and flooding.

Some members of Congress are pushing an omnibus ocean protection bill called Oceans - 21, which aims to regulate fisheries, establish a network of protected areas, provide an oceans management framework to rescue coasts and off - shore areas, and help ocean life survive global waOceans - 21, which aims to regulate fisheries, establish a network of protected areas, provide an oceans management framework to rescue coasts and off - shore areas, and help ocean life survive global waoceans management framework to rescue coasts and off - shore areas, and help ocean life survive global warming.

According to the study, among the first global assessments of the potential for marine aquaculture, the world's oceans are rife with aquaculture «hot spots» that provide enough space to produce 15 billion metric tons of finfish annually.

TIME and again, newspapers have splashed their pages with the wild idea that seeding the ocean with iron might provide a quick cure for global warming.

Oscar Schofield, a Rutgers University professor of bio-optical oceanography, agrees that satellites are limited, but «they are the only way to provide a global view of the ocean, albeit weighted to the surface.»

The global monthly data sets are statistically or dynamically interpolated and so provide data for all available space and time ocean grid cells.

The GOA - ON Requirements and Governance Plan provides both broad concepts and key critical details on how to meet our high level goals of: 1) to improve our understanding of global ocean acidification conditions; 2) to improve our understanding of ecosystem response to ocean acidification; 3) and to acquire and exchange the data and knowledge necessary to optimize the modeling of ocean acidification and its impacts.

Together with shipboard and satellite data, the global network of measuring sites provides further understanding of the ocean - atmosphere system and its influence on global climate and biological productivity.

We also know that they provide another integral service - sequestering and storing «blue» carbon from the atmosphere and oceans and hence are an essential piece of the solution to global climate change.

She noted that the localized analysis provided a clearer view than more typical global analyses of ocean acidification.

«The Ritz - Carlton, Zanzibar will compliment Marriott International's strong presence in the Indian Ocean and provide the necessary impetus to put the destination on the global itinerary of our guests.»

First, today a paper by Grant Foster and Stefan Rahmstorf was published by Environmental Research Letters, providing a new analysis of the five available global (land + ocean) temperature time series.

I particularly enjoyed the slides that, when combined (1) provided an overview of hotter and cooler CO2 molecules as it relates to how they are seen from outer space and from profile — because this will make it easier for me to explain this process to others; (2) walked through the volcanic and solar activity vs assigning importance to CO2 changes — because this another way to help make it clearer, too, but in another way; (3) discussed CO2 induced warming and ocean rise vs different choices we might make — because this helps point out why every day's delay matters; and (4) showed Figure 1 from William Nordhaus» «Strategies for Control of Carbon Dioxide» and then super-imposed upon that the global mean temperature in colors showing pre-paper and post-paper periods — because this helps to show just how far back it was possible to make reasoned projections without the aid of a more nuanced and modern understanding.

Britain's Royal Society has published a helpful new collection of papers in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B that provide fresh insights on how the global buildup of carbon dioxide released by human activities could affect ocean ecology.

Smoky Thanksgiving from Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private coal company, providing Americans with an ample dose of mercury, smog, acid rain, polluted drinking water, ocean acidification, fouled landscapes and global warming every day.

«The GOSIC Portal provides convenient, central, one - stop access to data and information identified by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and the Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS) and their partner programs....»

A model of the imperfections is needed to enable the compensation, and the teams who provide values of global temperature each use a different model for the imperfections (i.e. they make different selections of which points to use, they provide different weightings for e.g. effects over ocean and land, and so on).

North Atlantic Ocean to ancient global warming Jump in prehistoric ocean temperatures from greenhouse gases provides perspective for global warming stOcean to ancient global warming Jump in prehistoric ocean temperatures from greenhouse gases provides perspective for global warming stocean temperatures from greenhouse gases provides perspective for global warming studies

Yes, the simple term «global warming» doesn't convey all the complexities of what can happen as that warming causes air and ocean currents to shift, but climate change / disruption provides even less information.

Dan Barrie, program manager at NOAA, called the research «compelling» and said: «[It] provides a powerful illustration of how the remote eastern tropical Pacific guides the behaviour of the global ocean - atmosphere system, in this case exhibiting a discernible influence on the recent hiatus in global warming.»

«Routine measurements from space can provide quasi-synoptic, reproducible data for investigating processes on global scales; they may also be the most efficient way to monitor the ocean surface,» the researchers wrote.

The most reliable source of information for changes in the global mean net air — sea heat flux comes from the constraints provided by analyses of changes in ocean heat storage.

The Group for High Resolution SST (GHRSST) is a follow on activity form the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) high - resolution sea surface temperature pilot project (GHRSST - PP) provides a new generation of global high - resolution (< 10 km) SST data products to the operational oceanographic, meteorological, climate and general scientific community, in real time and delayedGlobal Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) high - resolution sea surface temperature pilot project (GHRSST - PP) provides a new generation of global high - resolution (< 10 km) SST data products to the operational oceanographic, meteorological, climate and general scientific community, in real time and delayedglobal high - resolution (< 10 km) SST data products to the operational oceanographic, meteorological, climate and general scientific community, in real time and delayed mode.

The rate of heat uptake by the ocean provides the link between the SST and global average temperature.

Its newly released global carbon budget for 2017 provides estimates of emissions by country, global emissions from land - use changes, atmospheric accumulation of CO2, and absorption of carbon from the atmosphere by the land and oceans.

Every year the GCP provides an estimate of the global carbon budget, which estimates both the release and uptake of carbon including emissions from fossil fuels and industry, emissions from land - use changes, carbon taken up by the oceans and land, and changes in atmospheric concentrations of CO2.

The interesting thing from a scientific perspective is that specifying the surface temperature in this region seems to anchor the coupled atmosphere / ocean circulations in a way that not only gives a better simulation of global average surface temperature, but also provides better simulations of the variability of key regional circulation features.

J. T. Fasullo, R. S. Nerem & B. Hamlington Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 31245 (2016) doi: 10.1038 / srep31245 Download Citation Climate and Earth system modellingProjection and prediction Received: 13 April 2016 Accepted: 15 July 2016 Published online: 10 August 2016 Erratum: 10 November 2016 Updated online 10 November 2016 Abstract Global mean sea level rise estimated from satellite altimetry provides a strong constraint on climate variability and change and is expected to accelerate as the rates of both ocean warming and cryospheric mass loss increase over time.

Abstract: «Global mean sea level rise estimated from satellite altimetry provides a strong constraint on climate variability and change and is expected to accelerate as the rates of both ocean warming and cryospheric mass loss increase over time.

«NASA's examination of ocean observations has provided its own unique contribution to our knowledge of decadal climate trends and global warming,» said Veronica Nieves, a researcher at JPL and the University of California, Los Angeles and co-author of the new study.

Since 2006, the Argo program of autonomous profiling floats has provided near - global coverage of the upper 2,000 meters of the ocean over all seasons [Riser et al., 2016].

At the workshop, advances in understanding the ocean's water cycle, made possible by innovations in the salinity observing system that recently began providing near - instantaneous snapshots of the global salinity field, were reported.

And the post provided an initial explanation as to why and how the global oceans could rise and fall without additional radiative forcings.

This global tidal «standing wave» leads to a long term disspation of tidal power of ~ 1 terra Watt which is sufficent to provide about 1/2 of the total power needed to drive the up welling of cool water from the deep oceans.

«Their results provide strong support for the idea that ENSO may be more responsive to global change than previously thought,» said Dr. Julia Cole, an expert in ocean - climate links at the University of Arizona, in a separate paper in Science that evaluates the research.

Furthermore, the discovery of a surprising number of submarine volcanoes highlights the underestimation of global volcanism and provides a loose basis for an estimate that may partly explain ocean acidification and rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels observed last century, as well as shedding much needed light on intensified polar spring melts.

Very recently, Ringer et al. (2014) and Brient et al. (2015) analyzed the CMIP5 fully coupled ocean — atmosphere models and their corresponding Cess experiments and confirmed again that the Cess experiments provide a good guide to the global cloud feedbacks determined from the coupled simulations, including the intermodel spread.

Beginning in the 1990s, satellites have provided near - global altimetry coverage of the ocean.

Step 3 involves application of a spatial analysis technique (empirical orthogonal teleconnections, EOTs) to merge and smooth the ocean and land surface temperature fields and provide these merged fields as anomaly fields for ocean, land and global temperatures.

The ultimate goal of GOOS Biogeochemistry Panel is to be able to provide regular updates to the already existing and not - yet developed synthesis products and therefore answer the societal and scientific questions through a well coordinated, multidisciplinary global ocean observing system.

If and when you can provide data or references to document your claims, or if you were to point me to those data or references — data and references that would help illustrate and document my posts, (which are about the multiyear aftereffects of ENSO events on global SST and TLT anomalies, and about the discharge / recharge aspects of ENSO, and about the impacts of ENSO, NAO, NPI, AMO on OHC, not the PDO, not what initiates ENSO events, not millennial ocean cycles, etc.)-- I would be happy to include it.

«Precise measurements of temperature within the ocean confirm that the Earth is absorbing more energy from sunlight than it emits back to space, providing perhaps the strongest evidence to date that rising concentrations of greenhouse gases and other pollutants are the primary cause of the current global warming trend.

The GFDL Data Portal also provides access to the latest (and previous) IPCC output from several Coupled Ocean — Atmosphere Global Climate Models (GCMs).