Kauker et al (Alfred Wegener Institute [AWI],
Ocean Atmosphere Systems [OASys]-RRB-, 3.95 (± 0.39), Modeling We estimate a monthly mean September sea - ice extent of 3.95 ± 0.39 million km2.
The two candidates (apart from volcanic forcing) are solar variability and the natural internal variability of the coupled
ocean atmosphere system, e.g. the multi-decadal and longer oscillations such as the NAO, PDO, etc..
Not exact matches
Following the maxim of keeping everything as simple as possible, but not simpler, Will Steffen from the Australian National University and I drew up an Anthropocene equation by homing in on the rate of change of Earth's life support
system: the
atmosphere,
oceans, forests and wetlands, waterways and ice sheets and fabulous diversity of life.
The Earth's climate
system is characterised by complex interactions between the
atmosphere,
oceans, ice sheets, landmasses and the biosphere (parts of the world with plant and animal life).
Forming in the
system's colder outer regions, where volatile compounds such as water and carbon dioxide freeze out, makes it possible that the planets incorporated those ices and carried them along to a warmer place where they could melt, evaporate, and become
oceans and
atmospheres.
The models must track how carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases cycle through the whole
system — how the gases interact with plant life,
oceans, the
atmosphere — and how this influences overall global temperatures.
The planets of the TRAPPIST - 1
system could be complex worlds with volcanoes,
atmospheres and warm subsurface
oceans.
The BAS would also have had to set up an automated
system to collect data on the
oceans and
atmosphere for worldwide monitoring programmes.
Massive reorganizations of the
ocean -
atmosphere system, the authors argue, are the key events that link cyclic changes in the earth's orbit to the advance and retreat of ice sheets
«The
atmosphere and the
ocean are both complex dynamical
systems,» he says, noting that computers are still not up to the task of handling them both at the same time.
The models also include the greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants that result from these processes, and they incorporate all of that information within a global climate model that simulates the physical and chemical processes in the
atmosphere, as well as in freshwater and
ocean systems.
«The
atmosphere, the
oceans, and the crust of the Earth were acting as a stable, interlinked
system.»
«To save coral reefs, we need to transform our energy
system into one that does not use the
atmosphere and
oceans as waste dumps for carbon dioxide pollution.
«The tropical Pacific
ocean -
atmosphere system has been called a sleeping dragon because of how it can influence climate elsewhere,» said lead author Aradhna Tripati, a UCLA assistant professor in the departments of Earth, planetary and space sciences, and atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Study co-author Katy Sheen, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from
Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, says: «These findings will help us to understand the processes that drive the ocean circulation and mixing so that we can better predict how our Earth system will respond to the increased levels of carbon dioxide that we have released into the atmosphere.&r
Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, says: «These findings will help us to understand the processes that drive the
ocean circulation and mixing so that we can better predict how our Earth system will respond to the increased levels of carbon dioxide that we have released into the atmosphere.&r
ocean circulation and mixing so that we can better predict how our Earth
system will respond to the increased levels of carbon dioxide that we have released into the
atmosphere.»
Most important, it relies on the first published results from the latest generation of so - called Earth
System climate models, complex programs that run on supercomputers and seek to simulate the planet's
oceans, land, ice, and
atmosphere.
But the models also suggest that the scheme could go too far: Adding excess sulfur could increase ice in Antarctica, «overcompensating» for warming, says Rasch, which could affect ecosystems and the global
ocean -
atmosphere system in a myriad of ways that scientists haven't studied.
«After many decades of attempting to understand how the
ocean impacts the
atmosphere and clouds above it, it became clear a new approach was needed to investigate the complex
ocean -
atmosphere system.
«Once the
ocean -
atmosphere system was isolated, we could systematically probe how changes in the seawater due to biological activity affect the composition and climate properties of the sea spray aerosol,» said Prather, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry who holds a joint appointment at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
«The model we developed and applied couples biospheric feedbacks from
oceans,
atmosphere, and land with human activities, such as fossil fuel emissions, agriculture, and land use, which eliminates important sources of uncertainty from projected climate outcomes,» said Thornton, leader of the Terrestrial
Systems Modeling group in ORNL's Environmental Sciences Division and deputy director of ORNL's Climate Change Science Institute.
El Nino is a disruption of the
ocean -
atmosphere system in the tropical Pacific with important consequences for weather around the globe.
After overcoming Urey's initial resistance, they designed three apparatuses meant to simulate the
ocean -
atmosphere system on primitive Earth (3).
Scientists are involved in the evaluation of global - scale climate models, regional studies of the coupled
atmosphere /
ocean / ice
systems, regional severe weather detection and prediction, measuring the local and global impact of the aerosols and pollutants, detecting lightning from space and the general development of remotely - sensed data bases.
The NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud,
Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, with a target launch within the next 5 years, aims to make measurements that will advance ocean and atmospheric science and facilitate interdisciplinary studies involving the interaction of the atmosphere with ocean biological sys
Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, with a target launch within the next 5 years, aims to make measurements that will advance
ocean and atmospheric science and facilitate interdisciplinary studies involving the interaction of the atmosphere with ocean biological sys
ocean and atmospheric science and facilitate interdisciplinary studies involving the interaction of the
atmosphere with
ocean biological sys
ocean biological
systems.
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.
The unprecedented scale of the POLENET sensor network is allowing investigations of
systems - scale interactions of the solid earth, the cryosphere, the
oceans and the
atmosphere.
As part of the way Earth works as a
system, carbon is continuously passed between the
ocean, the land and the
atmosphere.
El Niño is a particularly important disruption in the
ocean —
atmosphere system.
(Bottom left) Multi-model average SST change for LGM PMIP - 2 simulations by five AOGCMs (Community Climate
System Model (CCSM), Flexible Global
Ocean -
Atmosphere - Land
System (FGOALS), Hadley Centre Coupled Model (HadCM), Institut Pierre Simon Laplace Climate
System Model (IPSL - CM), Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate (MIROC)-RRB-.
A: Climate models are mathematical representations of the interactions between the various aspects of the climate
system including the
atmosphere,
oceans, land surface, ice, and the Sun.
Marine planktonic ecosystem dynamics, biogeochemical cycling and
ocean -
atmosphere - land carbon
system,
ocean acidification, climate change and
ocean circulation, satellite
ocean color, air - sea gas exchange, numerical modeling, data analysis, and data assimilation
They are the most advanced tools currently available for simulating the response of the global climate
system — including processes in the
atmosphere,
ocean, cryosphere, and land surface — to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations.
The strong coupling and interactions between the Tropical
Ocean and
atmosphere play a major role in the development of global climatic
system.
The results indicate that naturally induced climate variations seem to be dominated by two internal variability modes of the
ocean —
atmosphere system: AMO and El Niño Southern Oscillation
CESM is a fully - coupled Earth
System model, meaning all components of the Earth (
atmosphere, land,
ocean and cryosphere) «talk» to each other in the model.
Using super-distant, super-bright radio sources, such as quasars, as a wallpaper of stable reference points, this
system of radio telescopes helped scientists measure the tiny shifts in the Earth's crust caused by continental drift and clock the movements of the
atmosphere and
oceans.
An El - Nino does not create heat — it redistributes heat that is already in the
atmosphere -
ocean system.
In: Intraseasonal Variability in the
Atmosphere -
Ocean Climate
System [Lau, W.K.M., and D.E. Waliser (eds.)-RSB-.
Two University of Chicago scientists researched whether a planet dramatically ripped from its solar
system and sent forth into the frigid
atmosphere of open space could still harbor life under frozen
oceans.
During the flood, an
ocean of gas molecules were distributed throughout the inner solar
system, so Mars»
atmosphere, as a first approximation, was about 360 Mars» radii thick.
Its staff conducts basic research on the interactions among Earth's ecosystems, land,
atmosphere, and
oceans to understand how these interactions shape the behavior of the Earth
system, including its response to future change.
It forms when dimethyl sulphide produced by marine life reacts with the
atmosphere as it leaves the
ocean, and gets delivered into a wide variety of plants and root
systems through rainfall.
Ray, I think Lee Grable's point is important: The fact that we use the term «global temperature» to mean the average temperature on a two - dimensional surface rather than the three - dimensional
ocean plus land plus
atmosphere system of the earth has the potential to allow confusion.
In light of these matters, why would we want to expend the energy and resources to treat a symptom of planetary CO2 poisoning and take all the risks that LG describes when it pretty clear that the best approach is a wildly ambitious conversion to very low emission energy / transportation / agriculture
systems followed by a wildly ambitious global program of CO2 sequestration / removal from the
oceans and / or
atmosphere to push the needle back down under 400 ppm in a decade or two at most?
It is connected to the
oceans, and what should be considered is the
atmosphere -
ocean system, not the
atmosphere alone.
Does the
ocean -
atmosphere system jiggle with oscillations, like El Nino, La Nina?
This is in contrast to CO2, which accumulates in the
atmosphere /
ocean system, meaning that steady (non-rising) emissions still lead to a rising atmospheric concentration.
With the current GHG content in the
atmosphere, more solar energy arrives than leaves via radiation -LRB-.85 + / -.15 Watt / m ^ 2), which raises the heat content of the terrestrial
system, i.e., the average temperature over the whole earth +
oceans +
atmosphere.
Never mind that the globe — our planet — spans the
oceans,
atmosphere, land and ice
systems in their entirety.
That is, although an El Nino episode is primarily concerned with re-distributing (but not changing the total amount of) heat in the
ocean /
atmosphere system, the combined feedbacks would tend to increase the heat in that
system.