Sentences with phrase «ocean states shift»

Ocean states shift abruptly at these times and are punctuated by extreme El Niño Southern Oscillation events.

Not exact matches

So climatologist James Elsner of Florida State University in Tallahassee and his colleagues looked for ties between hurricane tracks and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), a seesaw shift in atmospheric pressures over the ocean (Science, 12 February 1999, p. 948).

Changing temperatures and ocean acidification, together with rising sea level and shifts in ocean productivity, will keep marine ecosystems in a state of continuous change for 100,000 years.

The rapid northerly shifts in spawning may offer a preview of future conditions if ocean warming continues, according to the new study published in Global Change Biology by scientists from the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, Oregon State University and NOAA Fisheries» Northwest Fisheries Science Center.

This abstract print interprets the constantly shifting states of the ocean and sky with layers of blue hues and textures.

The workshop summarized the state of understanding, key uncertainties and next research steps on the shifting chemistry of the oceans and the impacts on species and ecosystems, with a focus on ecosystems of particular interest to humans.

One way or the other, it's clear that, by the end of the 1990s, the veneer of ice on the Arctic Ocean had shifted to a far more tenuous state, with ever less thick, years - old ice like the floes I camped on when I went with the team setting up the annual North Pole Environmental Observatory.

More recent work is identifying climate shifts working through the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), Southern and Northern Annular Modes (SAM and NAM), Artic Oscillation (AO), Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), North Pacific Oscillation (NPO) and other measures of ocean and atmospheric stOcean Dipole (IOD), North Pacific Oscillation (NPO) and other measures of ocean and atmospheric stocean and atmospheric states.

These climate shifts are linked to sychronous changes in ocean and atmospheric indices and to changes in the Pacific state.

The Pacific Ocean shifted again to a somewhat cooler state after 1998.

It is seen in regime changes in cloud, ice, ocean and atmospheric circulation, hydrology and biology that are evident in climate records and that are best described as shifts in state space on the multi-dimensional climate strange attractor at 20 to 30 year intervals.

Climate shifts are marked by changes in the state of the Pacific Ocean and in the trajectory of atmospheric temperature.

Such things as drops of 10 degrees in places in as little as a decade and abrupt shifts in hydrology and ocean states.

Sea levels are rising (ask the Mayor of Miami who has spent tax monies to raise road levels), we've had 15 of the hottest years eve measured, more precipitation is coming down in heavy doses (think Houston), we're seeing more floods and drought than ever before (consistent with predictions), the oceans are measuring warmer, lake ice in North America is thawing sooner (where it happens in northern states and Canada), most glaciers are shrinking, early spring snowpacks out west have declined since the 1950's, growing seasons are longer throughout the plains, bird wintering ranges have moved north, leaf and bloom dates recorded by Thoreau in Walden have shifted in that area, insect populations that used to have one egg - larva - adult cycle in the summer now have two, the list goes on and on.

Ocean and atmosphere circulation shift climate states abruptly in completely deterministic but apparently random ways in a complex and dynamic system.

I have hypothesised a solar trigger for state shifts in ocean and atmospheric circulation.

Would we for instance change the Mg / Ca ratio triggering shifts to a calcite rather than the modern aragonite state of the oceans?

In a recent study, researchers found that when the Atlantic Ocean swung from one state to another, it apparently helped trigger a decade - long climate shift in the late 1960s that sprang from the Atlantic and reached as far as Australia.