Sentences with phrase «ocean processes in»

Wang, M. Ikeda, K. Mizobata, and J. Overland, Abrupt climate changes and emerging ice - ocean processes in the Pacific Arctic region and the Bering Sea, Chapter 4, in The Pacific Arctic Region: Ecosystem Status and Trends in a Rapidly Changing Environment, J. M. Grebmeier and W. Maslowski (eds.)

The field experiment with the KOSMOS mesocosms is conducted at Taliarte, Gran Canaria as a joint activity of the German research networks BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification) and SOPRAN (Surface Ocean Processes in the Anthropocene) between January and April 2014.

As part of the research projects SOPRAN (Surface Ocean Processes in the Anthropocene) and BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification) the KOSMOS system was deployed in the Raunefjord at the west coast of Norway, were blooms of Emiliania huxleyi regularly occur in late spring.

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As the authors wrote in the recent Great Barrier Reef study, these processes are likely to continue — and they'll totally transform ocean ecosystems.

The revision process, which includes conducting environmental impact studies and taking public comments, has taken about two years in the past, said Connie Gillette, chief of public affairs for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the unit of the Interior Department that oversees the lease schedule.

Strobel is in talks with the federal government to open a processing plant on Department of Fisheries and Oceans land, and has already tapped back into the SheEO network for more investments.

Much pollution, of the ocean, for example, is caused in the process of transportation, both by accidents and by standard practices.

Q. 2 Likewise, we know that life on Earth evolved over the last approximately 3.5 billion years and likely began in a planet wide «organic soup» of complex organic chemicals in the primordial oceans, in an increasingly well understood process.

I discuss the advantages of the alternative view of process cosmology elsewhere (George Wolf, «The place of the brain in an ocean of feelings,» to be published in a festschrift for Charles Hartshorne edited by John B. Cobb, Jr.).

Surfside Foods specializes in harvesting and processing Ocean Quahog (Arctica islandica) and Atlantic Surf (Spisula solida) clams.

This process, it calms the waves in my ocean and reminds me that sometimes I just need to get the countertops and space under my fingernails and hair and every saucepan in my kitchen completely filthy, just so I can have a reason to clean and make everything feel new again.

The movement of the ocean actually helps the aging process and there is an ever so slight impartation of ocean salt water flavor that finds its way into the cork and therefore in the wine which gives the wine an amazingly addictive salinity.

Backers of the fee note that New Yorkers consume 9 billion disposable bags a year, which clutter parks, cling to trees, accrue into islands in the world's oceans, strangle marine life and cost the city sanitation system an estimated $ 12.5 million annually to process.

In October 1952, the United States tests its first thermonuclear device, obliterating a Pacific Ocean islet in the process; nine months later, the Soviets test an H - bomb of their owIn October 1952, the United States tests its first thermonuclear device, obliterating a Pacific Ocean islet in the process; nine months later, the Soviets test an H - bomb of their owin the process; nine months later, the Soviets test an H - bomb of their own.

Scientists don't fully understand what's driving Jupiter's strongest auroras, but data gathered by the orbiting Juno spacecraft hint that the electrons generating Jupiter's polar glows may be accelerated by turbulent waves in the planet's magnetic field — a process somewhat akin to surfers being driven shoreward ahead of breaking ocean waves, the researchers report today in Nature.

Scientists process cores in plastic liners before they're shipped to the International Ocean Discovery Program's core repository in Bremen, Germany, for detailed analysis this fall.

In the process, they might identify a planet's surface features — such as oceans, continents, ice caps and even cloudbanks — and detect the presence of biomarkers like oxygen, methane and water.

The simulations also suggest that the removal of excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by natural processes on land and in the ocean will become less efficient as the planet warms.

«Until recently, we had little information on ocean temperature and water depth in these fjords to quantify these processes, so the interpretation of glacier evolution on a case - by - case basis was difficult.»

Both processes occur in regions of the ocean that are naturally low in oxygen, or anoxic, due to local lack of water circulation and intense phytoplankton productivity overlying these regions.

The process may also play a part in the mixing between atmosphere and oceans, as smaller bubbles tend to absorb gas faster than big ones and are better at spitting out aerosol droplets when they pop.

The Carbon cycle is a geological process that regulates the CO2 - level in the atmosphere and with that, the temperature of the planet's surface: In the ocean, CO2, in its dissolved form, undergoes a chemical reaction and is then transported into Earth's mantlin the atmosphere and with that, the temperature of the planet's surface: In the ocean, CO2, in its dissolved form, undergoes a chemical reaction and is then transported into Earth's mantlIn the ocean, CO2, in its dissolved form, undergoes a chemical reaction and is then transported into Earth's mantlin its dissolved form, undergoes a chemical reaction and is then transported into Earth's mantle.

The researchers also separated out natural sources of VSLS — such as seaweed in the ocean — and those released due to human activity — such as industrial processes — in order to determine the relative importance of each.

It's the same process that's gradually driving the moon's orbit outward: Tides raised by the moon in our oceans are gradually transferring Earth's rotational energy to lunar motion.

In the presence of mercury, which in this study came from Asia via ocean currents, the decomposition process creates methylmercury, which works its way up the food chain and into predators such as tunIn the presence of mercury, which in this study came from Asia via ocean currents, the decomposition process creates methylmercury, which works its way up the food chain and into predators such as tunin this study came from Asia via ocean currents, the decomposition process creates methylmercury, which works its way up the food chain and into predators such as tuna.

«This is, of course, an important process, because the ice that melts there ends up in the ocean and raises sea level.»

«Across the globe, the mountain glaciers influence ecosystem processes like stream flow, nutrient delivery and primary production in the ocean.

In particular, cold waters of the Southern Ocean show higher concentrations of CO2 and lower in CaCO3, and this reduces the availability of the carbonate required for the calcification procesIn particular, cold waters of the Southern Ocean show higher concentrations of CO2 and lower in CaCO3, and this reduces the availability of the carbonate required for the calcification procesin CaCO3, and this reduces the availability of the carbonate required for the calcification process.

GCMs are computer models which capture physical processes governing the atmosphere and oceans to simulate the response of temperature, precipitation, and other meteorological variables in different scenarios.

Bacteria in ocean sediments appear to string together nanowires to connect complementary but spatially separated chemical processes, according to a new study.

Gross says that the most important processes affecting day length are changes in the weather, especially unusual variations in the strength and direction of the winds, which bring on alterations in the global circulation of the atmosphere and ocean.

If the ice at the bottom of a glacier melts, the point where it connects to the bedrock moves backward, farther inland, losing ice to the ocean in the process.

The first part of the process, the phytoplankton bloom, has already been demonstrated in small - scale tests in the South Pacific and the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

Jettisoning each stage as it used up fuel reduced the total weight of the capsule that ultimately went into orbit, but some pretty expensive hardware got dumped into the ocean in the process.

The huge increase of radiation and the strong stellar winds that will accompany the process of stellar inflation will destroy all life on Earth and evaporate the water in the oceans, before the entire planet is finally melted.

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.

More perplexing still, seismic studies have shown no evidence that ocean crust is being subducted — thrust down into the hot mantle underlying the trench — which is the process that results in quakes at other deep - sea trenches.

Researcher Michael O'Donnell, an ecologist at the University of Washington, has shown that ocean acidification, a process in which absorbing large amounts of carbon dioxide lowers the pH of oceans, is weakening mussels» byssal threads.

Leinen easily ticks off a host of areas, from analyzing the complex mixtures of physical processes and chemical reactions in the atmosphere and the ocean to characterizing earthquakes, in which geoscientists have made important contributions to physics and chemistry.

Nearly all of the thousands of different chemical substances produced by people, animals, plants, fungi, algae or microorganisms on the ground or in the oceans react quickly with OH and break down in this process.

The third process, tidal dissipation, has recently become a focus in planetary science as a potential heat source sufficient enough to create and maintain subsurface global oceans and viscous processes affecting ice flow in which disturbances within the crystal lattice allow ice to flow like honey (over long enough time periods).

Fisher led an international team of scientists that in the early 2000s discovered the first field site where this process could be tracked from fluid inflow to outflow, in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.

The process results in seawater that is stripped of calcium and magnesium — ideal for desalinization technologies — but safe to be dumped back into the ocean.

A crucial process has been identified to explain the reason why dissolved organic carbon (DOC) levels in the deep oceans are constant despite a continuous supply from the surface ocean.

Beneath an ice layer about 10 to 15 miles (15 - 25 kilometers) thick, the moon is thought to harbor a liquid water ocean, possibly warmed by geologic processes originating in the planet's core.

By studying iron extracted from cores drilled in rocks similar to these in Karijini National Park, Western Australia, UW - Madison researchers determined that half of the iron atoms had originated in shallow oceans after being processed by microbes 2.5 billion years ago.

His research team envisions a series of interacting processes, or feedbacks, that maintained oxygen at very low levels principally by modulating the availability of life - sustaining nutrients in the ocean and thus oxygen - producing photosynthetic activity.

Upper - ocean processes dissipate heat, transport nutrients and impact the uptake of carbon dioxide — making circulation a critical driver of biological activity in the ocean.

The global climate models do a good job of simulating the process of sea ice formation over large areas in the open ocean.

NOAA is in the process of rolling out a fleet of 15 gliders in a swathe of ocean that spans from Nova Scotia to Georgia, after pairs of gliders on unrelated missions inadvertently got caught in superstorm Sandy last year but came through in one piece.