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- Almost everywhere you travel in the Indian Ocean region there will be a dive school or dive centre nearby to either learn diving or hire equipment.

Not exact matches

When Joel Thornton at the University of Washington in Seattle and his colleagues looked at records of lightning strikes between 2005 and 2016 from the World Wide Lightning Location Network, they noticed there were significantly more strikes in certain regions of the east Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, compared with the surrounding areas.

NARWHALS packing temperature and depth gauges connected to satellite transmitters have revealed that climatology models used for the Baffin bay region — which links the Atlantic and Arctic oceans — underestimate winter ocean temperatures there by as much as 1 °C.

«The ocean bed is quite complex, and there are some regions that provide access for warm, deep ocean water to those glaciers,» Scheuchl says.

But within these long periods there have been abrupt climate changes, sometimes happening in the space of just a few decades, with variations of up to 10ºC in the average temperature in the polar regions caused by changes in the Atlantic ocean circulation.

But there's little shipping in the Southern Ocean, and Doney said that's a region of high concern.

There are several habitats once thought to be inhospitable to even the world's most adaptable organisms — places like the core of Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest region on Earth; ice sheet plateaus in Greenland that are 10,000 feet thick; and near hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor with temperatures above 750 degrees Fahrenheit, to name a few.

If there is limited iron in these regions, which can account for 40 percent of the ocean, it is critical that these phytoplankton find a way to stay alive.

Consistent with observed changes in surface temperature, there has been an almost worldwide reduction in glacier and small ice cap (not including Antarctica and Greenland) mass and extent in the 20th century; snow cover has decreased in many regions of the Northern Hemisphere; sea ice extents have decreased in the Arctic, particularly in spring and summer (Chapter 4); the oceans are warming; and sea level is rising (Chapter 5).

When low - temperature ice covers the Arctic Ocean there is little evaporation or sublimation and the polar regions are quite dry in terms of precipitation, comparable to the amount found in mid-latitude deserts.

Since deeper waters will be warmer, there is a possible link to the global ocean circulating currents that results in warmer water in polar regions.

There's ocean fun for everyone: Pros compete for titles, while amateurs take lessons from the region's best surfers.

There may be reason to strongly suspect that in any sufficiently complicated dynamical system model (such as climate) with stochastic parameters (e.g., exactly when and where a lightning strike starts a major wildfire or a major submarine earthquake perturbs ocean circulation in a region or a major volcanic eruption introduces stratospheric aerosols), it is almost certain that any given run of the model will have periods of significant deviation from the mean of multiple runs.

So there are issues of the areas not included and they assume the 17 percent of the ocean not sampled warms at the same rate, but in fact the Arctic and Indonesian regions are warming much faster, but at least they did include something.

Secondly, hurricanes spend most of their life in the open oceans, i.e. in regions where there are very few people and no fixed observations.

In regions of the Indian Ocean where there had been uncontrolled and unregulated coastal development, there was carnage.

There's intensified international jockeying over Arctic Ocean seabed resources, with Russia in August updating its claim to a vast region under the Law of the Sea convention (which the United States still has not ratified).

If there was a difference when a dominant (NAO vs PDO), with the NAO ocean current carrying higher SSTs and saline ocean currents into the Arctic region had differing results in regional melt, I suspect it would be a good correlation for salinity playing a part.

It's clear there's more research to be done, but also seems fairly evident that proper procedures can lure sharks, when necessary, without raising risks to surfers and others eager to enjoy ocean waters in regions also frequented by this remarkable predator.

Is there a discernible point, maybe in a model, that includes reduced albedo in the summer, that might show an acceleration of melting above the average temperature increase curve for the region so that ocean warmth has an increasing role over atmospheric??

Computer simulations of the atmosphere and ocean, when run with rising greenhouse gases, show the warm pool heating at the same rate as other ocean regions, in contrast to what has been observed there so far, the researchers said.

(Keep in mind that almost all Arctic sea ice researchers add a big caveat when talking of an «ice - free Arctic Ocean,» noting that a big region of thick floes north and west of Greenland will almost surely persist in summers through this century, which is one reason some scientists have proposed targeting polar bear conservation efforts there.)

«While La Niña [conditions in 2011] had a large role to play in the failure of the rains in East Africa, there is evidence that warming in the western Pacific — Indian Ocean warm pool has contributed to an increased frequency of droughts in this region,» the researchers note.

'' This offers supporting evidence that the earth's spin rate is currently increasing, in agreement with Laws of Conservation of Angular Momentum due to a reduction in the earth's spin axis Moment of Inertia, that in turn suggests there is a mechanism in the current part of the Donn and Ewing climate cycle that is transferring equatorial ocean water to ice in polar regions.....

However, if you compare regions like the hotter portion of the tropical oceans, there is still a bit of a discrepancy and even a hypothesis as to why the discrepancy may exist, convective triggering temperature which just one on many model «parameterizations» (SWAG).

Regional reports on climate finance from the OECD Creditor Reporting System for 2010 to 2015 in the Pacific and the Caribbean, and recent analysis for Indian Ocean and African SIDS show that, with the exception of the Pacific, there is no dramatic increase of flows from developed to developing countries in SIDS regions.

For starters, there were no ocean circulation patterns then, no polar regions, or separate continents.

It's a region of the North Pacific ocean where the northern jet stream and the southern trade winds, moving opposite directions, create a vast, gently circling region of water called the North Pacific Gyre — and at its center, there are tons of plastic garbage.

Agnostic, there is speculation that there is a bi-polar see - saw b / n the Arctic and Antarctic, likely related to the AMOC, which in its traverse across the equatorial region in the Atlantic, carries ocean heat from the Southern Hemisphere to the northern.

Especially in the tropical oceans, there are large regions where zonally anomalous wet regions get drier and zonally anomalous dry regions get wetter.

So there is a lot of thermal energy entering the ocean surface in non-polar regions, moving downwards through the thermocline and exiting in the polar regions.

Given the context of this highly anomalous and extremely persistent atmospheric ridging over the northeastern Pacific Ocean, it's very interesting to note that there has also been a region of strongly positive sea surface temperature anomalies in same the general vicinity for the past 10 - 11 months.

Are there any effects on ocean currents expected from a changing gradient in this region?

The entire region faces problems, in many cases driven by overfishing, and there has even been alarm about the condition of the albatross as it circles the southern ocean.

There is very little ice in the East Greenland Sea, a region fed by the outflow of ice through Fram Strait from the Arctic Ocean.

While the overall sea ice extent in the Southern Ocean has not changed markedly in recent decades, there have been increases in oceanic temperatures and large regional decreases in winter sea ice extent and duration in the western Antarctic Peninsula region of West Antarctica and the islands of the Scotia Arc.

But there have been lingering questions about the relative importance of El Niño (and the Southern Oscillation, or ENSO) versus local forcing of unusually warm and cold periods in this variable and biologically productive ocean region along the west coast of the continental US and Baja California, Mexico.

That surface is hotter than the floor of the ocean, and so there is significant downward diffusion of thermal energy which then does not surface again until it reaches the polar regions.

On longer time - scales, and over the majority of large ocean regions in the 20th century, there is good agreement between NMAT and SST.

QUOTE: «As shown on figure 17 - D the regions for absorption and out - gassing are separate; there is no «global» equilibrium between the atmosphere and the ocean; carbon absorbed tens of years ago at high latitudes is resurfacing in up - wellings; carbon absorbed by plants months to centuries ago is degassed by soils Sorry, there is a fundamental lack of knowledge of dynamic systems here: as long as the total of the CO2 influxes is the same as the total of the CO2 outfluxes, nothing happens in the atmosphere.

As shown on figure 17 - D the regions for absorption and out - gassing are separate; there is no «global» equilibrium between the atmosphere and the ocean; carbon absorbed tens of years ago at high latitudes is resurfacing in upwellings; carbon absorbed by plants months to centuries ago is degassed by soils.

Behavior of the sea ice over the past winter and the spring and the large positive temperature anomalies in the Arctic (as high as 20 degrees C over large regions in the past winter) suggest that an extent near that of the 2012 minimum may occur again if there is large export of sea ice out to the Atlantic Ocean via the Fram Strait.

* There is no such thing as a meaningful «Earth» temperature, as some regions are cooling, some are warming, the depths of the ocean have different levels of heat content that can not be uniformly measured against a mean, etc..

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140202111055.htm «The satellite observations have shown that warming of the tropical Indian Ocean and tropical Western Pacific Ocean — with resulting increased precipitation and water vapor there — causes the opposite effect of cooling in the TTL region above the warming sea surface.

In a ground - breaking new paper (Lansner and Pepke Pedersen, 2018) published in the journal Energy and Environment, an analysis of land surface instrumental records from across the globe's ocean air sheltered (OAS) regions reveals that, like the proxy evidence presented above, most of the modern era warming occurred prior to the 1940s, and the there has effectively been no net warming since then.

We can test this hypothesis because if it were true there must be regions in the subsurface ocean where it has cooled.

Lansner and Pepke Pedersen (2018) point out that, due to the divergent rates of warming and cooling for land vs. ocean water, there is a significant difference in the range of temperature for the regions of the world influenced by their close proximity to oceans and coastal wind currents (ocean air affected, or OAA) and the inland regions of the world that are unaffected by ocean air effects and coastal wind because they are sheltered by hills and mountains or located in valleys (ocean air sheltered, or OAS).

Prior to about 1970, there was no satellite imagery to help estimate the intensity and size of tropical storms, so the estimates of ACE are less reliable, and values are not given prior to about the mid - or late 1970s in the Indian Ocean, South Pacific or Australian regions.

«Recent research, however, suggests that there is a possibility that this gradual global warming could lead to a relatively abrupt slowing of the ocean's thermohaline conveyor, which could lead to harsher winter weather conditions, sharply reduced soil moisture, and more intense winds in certain regions that currently provide a significant fraction of the world's food production.

While scientists are still working to determine precisely what confluence of conditions allowed for the Triple R's extraordinary multi-year persistence — and which may include effects from regions as far away as the Arctic — there is considerable evidence that a fundamental driver of the Triple R's longevity was the persistent warmth of the western tropical Pacific ocean (mentioned in the first section of this article).