Sentences with phrase «ocean sink in»

Everett F Sargent # 12: Ocean carbon storage is ~ 20x land storage, but average ocean sink in a given year is about the same as the average land sink.

Having retrieved the original article (Canadell et al., 2007, PNAS online) it's written (p. 3) that 65 + / -16 % of... d ² CO2 / dt ² (translation of «increase of atmospheric CO2 growth rate») is attributed to «the increase in the global economy», the remaining 35 + / -16 % being attributed to «the increase in carbon intensity in the global economy» and 18 + / -15 % to «the decrease in the efficiency of the lands and ocean sinks in removing anthropogenic CO2».

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The heavy concrete is supposed to make a body sink to the bottom of a river or the ocean, but — for reasons that remain unclear — it might not have worked in this case.

If it is successful in driving Chevron out of the country, Brazil's dreams to be the preeminent oil exporter in the western hemisphere would sink to the bottom of the ocean.

The reading released daily by the Baltic Exchange has been sinking every trading day for the past three weeks, measuring a 34 - per - cent drop in ocean freight rates and foreshadowing a slowdown in trade.

profit of doom telling his listeners that California is sinking into the ocean, while he he's buying beach front property in Malibu.

Because, speculates Hutton, God through final causation created a cycle whereby sediments sink and consolidate in the oceans and later are uplifted by the Earth's interior heat.

It sinks back into the ocean of being, after having been used on the surface, to rest in the depths of calm.

More than 1,500 people were killed when the luxury ocean liner sank in the Atlantic Ocean April 15, 1912, but hundreds more survived like Quinn's grandmother and were greeted with a hero's welcome when they arrived in New York several days locean liner sank in the Atlantic Ocean April 15, 1912, but hundreds more survived like Quinn's grandmother and were greeted with a hero's welcome when they arrived in New York several days lOcean April 15, 1912, but hundreds more survived like Quinn's grandmother and were greeted with a hero's welcome when they arrived in New York several days later.

When they died, their shells sank to the bottom of the ocean, making the layers Meckler saw in the core.

From the great ocean liner's construction to its sinking to its discovery on the ocean floor, the key moments in the Titanic's history.

The study contradicts earlier inferences that the Southern Ocean's carbon sink has been weak in the 21st century.

Although the oceans are currently the greatest carbon sink, terrestrial carbon sinks also play a significant role in keeping the carbon out of the atmosphere.

The Southern Ocean sink strength is, at present, determined by the winds in that part of the world.

What sinks to the ocean floor depends in part on how warm the climate is.

«This was a bit of a surprise because when we think of sediment in the ocean, we think of it as sinking vertically, originating from someplace above.

In this state of «neutral buoyancy», she can swim around in the open ocean effortlessly, because she neither sinks nor floats upwardIn this state of «neutral buoyancy», she can swim around in the open ocean effortlessly, because she neither sinks nor floats upwardin the open ocean effortlessly, because she neither sinks nor floats upwards.

During this formation CO2 splits off and is dissolved in a heavy cold brine, which gets squeezed out of the ice and sinks into the deeper parts of the ocean.

In 1984, encased in a huge yellow metal diving suit equipped with foot - controlled thrusters, deep - sea biologist Edith Widder sank into the Pacific Ocean on her first deep divIn 1984, encased in a huge yellow metal diving suit equipped with foot - controlled thrusters, deep - sea biologist Edith Widder sank into the Pacific Ocean on her first deep divin a huge yellow metal diving suit equipped with foot - controlled thrusters, deep - sea biologist Edith Widder sank into the Pacific Ocean on her first deep dive.

Sinking slabs of ocean crust and rising plumes of hot rock in Earth's mantle are observed to behave differently below one megameter (1,000 kilometers) depth.

And the ill - fated and controversial space capsule Liberty Bell 7 was raised from its watery grave almost exactly 40 years after it sank in the Atlantic Ocean, having carried the first astronaut, Gus Grissom, in a historic first orbit of the earth.

Ocean water sops up the red so effectively that 100 feet below the sea surface only the bluish components of sunlight penetrate; a sunken ship's crimson lower keel appears black to divers since nothing can look red in the absence of red light.

«To put this in some kind of context, if those small scale eddies did not increase with wind stress then the saturation of carbon dioxide in the Southern Ocean sink would occur twice as rapidly and more heat would enter our atmosphere and sooner.»

In the report, an international team of climate scientists warns policy - makers that levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are at the extreme end of predictions made only in 2007, and that natural CO2 sinks such as oceans are becoming saturateIn the report, an international team of climate scientists warns policy - makers that levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are at the extreme end of predictions made only in 2007, and that natural CO2 sinks such as oceans are becoming saturatein the atmosphere are at the extreme end of predictions made only in 2007, and that natural CO2 sinks such as oceans are becoming saturatein 2007, and that natural CO2 sinks such as oceans are becoming saturated.

«Currently the ocean is a sink for CO2 — that is, it takes in more CO2 from the atmosphere than it releases,» Hutchins explains.

As global temperature rises, most of the extra heat in the atmosphere — about 90 percent — sinks into the ocean.

► In Science, Dennis Normile wrote about the impact of the sinking of the Taiwanese research vessel Ocean Research V, «less than 2 years after its maiden scientific cruise,» on Taiwanese science, calling it «a severe setback for Taiwanese oceanography and related fields.»

The coastline was barely recognizable; what had been one of the most beautiful and regular harbors in Asia now was an obstacle course, littered with masses of black pumice stone, tree trunks burnt and splintered as if by lightning, and the prows of previously sunken ships which the ocean had thrown onto land.

At various points in Earth's history, dust fell into the ocean and fed algae, which gobbled up carbon dioxide and sank to the bottom of the sea, taking greenhouse gas with them and cooling the world.

Using supercomputers, the researchers found that this dense piece of ocean floor material (called a lithospheric slab) is slowly sinking into the Earth's mantle and is responsible for the formation of the Lake Eyre Basin, one of the Earth's largest internally drained basins and home to the lowest point in Australia at 15m below sea level, as well as the Murray - Darling Basin, home to the largest river system in Australia.

The old houses, often more than a meter across, sink toward the ocean bottom carrying with them plankton and other biological tidbits snagged in their goo.

This paper outlines a new framework for assessing errors and their impact on the uncertainties associated with calculating carbon sinks on land and in oceans.

«Zealandia, a sunken continent long lost beneath the oceans, is giving up its 60 million - year - old secrets through scientific ocean drilling,» said Jamie Allan, program director in the U.S. National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, which supports ocean drilling,» said Jamie Allan, program director in the U.S. National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, which supports Ocean Sciences, which supports IODP.

Small filter - feeding animals in the world's oceans take in bits of plastic and excrete them in pellets that sink to the ocean floor.

We have shown that hydrothermal vent fluids contain almost none of the organic carbon which accumulates in the oceans, which means that vents are a sink for this unreactive «stored» carbon.»

Some of this carbon then sinks to the bottom of the ocean when the phytoplankton die, locking it away in the deep sea for thousands of years.

The approach ranked as the study's least viable strategy, in part because less than a quarter of the algae could be expected to eventually sink to the bottom of the ocean, which would be the only way that carbon would be sequestered for a long period of time.

As a result, there has been a reduction in the heat exchange over the locations where sinking occurs in the ocean.

The warm waters give up their heat in the bitterly cold regions monitored by OSNAP, become denser, and sink, forming ocean - bottom currents that return southward, hugging the perimeter of the ocean basins.

Humans do emit only a fraction of the 750 gigatons of CO2 that move through the atmosphere each year, but small changes in the total amount can overwhelm so - called carbon «sinks» such as the ocean, resulting in important, and cumulative, changes in the atmosphere.

Introduction Have you ever wondered why when you drop a steel nail into water it sinks like a stone, but when a well - built steel ship is in the ocean it floats, even though it weighs much more than a tiny nail?

«What we find is that observations today are not sufficient to be able to see change in the ocean - carbon sink,» McKinley explains.

It's sinking from the weight of organisms sticking to it or in animal feces and getting buried on the ocean floor, Law says.

However, changes to the sink in the Pacific and Indian Ocean subtropical regions will be too low - resolution to detect before at least 2050.

In doing so, it sinks to the ocean bed and pushes the deep segment of the conveyor belt forward.

In using the model to assess the ocean - carbon sink, the researchers assumed a «business as usual» carbon dioxide emissions trajectory, the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 scenario found in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for 2006 - 2010, where emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st centurIn using the model to assess the ocean - carbon sink, the researchers assumed a «business as usual» carbon dioxide emissions trajectory, the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 scenario found in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for 2006 - 2010, where emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st centurin the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for 2006 - 2010, where emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century.

«It essentially means that, through multiple means, in a world with mixotrophs, more organic carbon is sinking into the deep ocean than in a world without mixotrophs,» Follows says.

«The faster a particle sinks, the more likely its carbon will be stored in the ocean for centuries,» she says.

With help from the ocean's natural wave action, the reduction in surface tension allows large surface slicks to separate into individual droplets that eventually sink to the sea floor.

The reason is that Emiliania's dense calcareous platelets function as ballast in aggregated organic matter and accelerate its sinking to the deep ocean.