Sentences with phrase «ocean warming linked»

Dr Marino adds: «Recent studies have shown that Southern Ocean warming linked with human - caused greenhouse effects is driving accelerated melting in Antarctica.

Not exact matches

Those weather patterns are linked to warmer surface temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, respectively, and correlated with the timing of observed floods on the lower Mississippi.

A nice Cuban gold - link chain makes us think of Miami beaches, evenings spent with friends dancing and sipping frosty drinks and dipping our toes into warm ocean water.

Each of these monitored droughts are linked to oscillations in the so - called Indian Ocean Dipole — the El Nio of that region, in which the normally warm eastern ocean becomes quite cold and the western ocean, near Africa, wOcean Dipole — the El Nio of that region, in which the normally warm eastern ocean becomes quite cold and the western ocean, near Africa, wocean becomes quite cold and the western ocean, near Africa, wocean, near Africa, warms.

These large Northern Hemisphere cooling events have previously been linked to a change in the Atlantic Ocean circulation that led to a reduced transport of warm water to the high latitudes in the North.

Still, there are definitely mechanisms by which this rift could be linked to climate change, most notably through warmer ocean waters eating away at the base of the shelf.»

One idea, for example, was that the formation of the Isthmus of Panama, the narrow strip of land linking North and South America, could have altered ocean circulations during the Pliocene, forcing warmer waters toward the Arctic.

Changes to Antarctic winds have already been linked to southern Australia's drying climate but now it appears they may also have a profound impact on warming ocean temperatures under the ice shelves along the coastline of West and East Antarctic.

March 17, 2006, Statistical Analysis Bolsters Theory Linking Warmer Oceans to Stronger Hurricanes, by David Biello.

While several studies have predicted that toxic algae blooms may become more common in the future, this is one of the first studies to link the recent intensification of these events to ocean warming.

«A fundamental question has been whether we can directly link expansion of harmful algal blooms to a warming ocean; this paper provides critical, quantitative evidence for just that trend, confirming an expected, but difficult to test, direct link between toxic blooms to climate,» said Dr. Raphael Kudela, Professor of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, a national toxic algae expert who was not part of the socean; this paper provides critical, quantitative evidence for just that trend, confirming an expected, but difficult to test, direct link between toxic blooms to climate,» said Dr. Raphael Kudela, Professor of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, a national toxic algae expert who was not part of the sOcean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, a national toxic algae expert who was not part of the study.

Some scientists are linking the phenomenon to warmer waters and ocean acidification caused by high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

New findings link rising ocean temperatures off the northern coast of Brazil to changing weather patterns: As the Atlantic warms, it draws moisture away from the forest, priming the region for bigger fires.

The reason could be linked to rising sea surface temperatures — fueled in part by global warming — as seen in ocean buoy data collected along the U.S. coast.

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.

Ancient crocodiles colonized the seas during warm phases and became extinct during cold phases, according to a new study, demonstrating a link between crocodile evolution and ocean temperature.

Linked with this creative curriculum unit (based around oceans and the environment) we devised a survey on Global Warming and analysed the results, and studied the sinking of the Titanic.

I didn't keep the links but there is at least one d18O study from the Pacific Warm Pool which clearly indicates that first the deep ocean warmed there, followed later by the CO2 increase and then the shallow ocean warmed, leading to the LGM to Holocene transition.

~ Our study confirms many changes seen in upper Arctic Ocean circulation in the 1990s were mostly decadal in nature, rather than trends caused by global warming,» / / www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-131 [ANDY REVKIN comments: That's precisely what I wrote in the Science Times feature on Arctic ice in September (link is in the post).

While there, I met three intrepid young Britons who have spent more than a year traversing Atlantic Ocean shorelines to work with, and link up, students in communities facing eroding coasts in a warming world.

And as we learn from the Skeptical Science article I linked to earlier, there is going to be a delay of «decades» between the effects of the CO2 emissions in question (i.e., the heating of the atmosphere due to the greenhouse effect) and a corresponding warming of the oceans.

Here's a quote (from Fleck quoting Warming of the world ocean, 1955 - 2003 — abstract linked in as «recently in GRL» in the post).

The coverage linking these storms to warming oceans resulted in a backlash when some hurricane experts disputed the assertions made to the media.

It describes his research linking a warming Indian Ocean — when combined with La Niña conditions — with reductions in crucial rainfall from March to June in East Africa.

From your link: «In some instances, bright red spots or streaks along the edge of the continent show where icebergs calved or ice shelves disintegrated, meaning the satellite began seeing warmer ocean water where there had previously been ice.»

Combine all these elements with the tendency toward drying that he links to human - driven warming of Indian Ocean waters and you have what's in the headlines — with more to come.

But a paper published in January in Climate Dynamics found a link between warming of the Indian Ocean and drought patterns in Ethiopia and Kenya.

The warmer ocean waters however appear to be an independent phenomenon — and are not to be directly linked to La Niña.

In addition to Sphaericas link on ocean warming / IR, I would also point out a RealClimate discussion of the same work.

2007/04/27: SciDaily: Ancient Global Warming Linked To Volcanic Eruptions That Formed North Atlantic Ocean

The new study by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and supported by the US government's National Oceans and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), published in the journal Nature, has linked the «pause» in global warming with the Pacific oscillation.

Compounding these issues is the link between increasing green crab abundance and increasing ocean temperature, which has had severe ecological and socio - economic consequences in areas such as the GOM, where warming is occurring faster than 99 % of the world's oceans.

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As scientists solidify the links between climate change and health issues like tropical ailments that infect Americans on the backs of whipping winds and warming ocean tides, top medical associations are becoming a high - profile lobbying force for climate regulations.

And that means oceans warm enough to support the lower links in the food chain from plankton all the way up to seals.

About 93 percent of corals in Great Barrier Reef are now experiencing some form of bleaching due to unusually high ocean temperatures that are linked to global warming as well.

We know there is a link between warming oceans, warmer ocean temperatures, and the power of a storm like Harvey.

The oceans play a huge role in the link between our emissions of carbon dioxide and global warming.

On the other hand, ocean - atmosphere coupling is very well recognized in this region on longer timescales (such as the multi-decade periodicity of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or PDO), so it seems likely that the anomalous ridging that has led to to California's extremely dry weather and the North Pacific warm pool are physically linked in one way or another.

The observation of a historically high level of TSI from 1961 to 2001 tends to fit with the theories set out in my other articles about the real cause of recent warming and the real link between solar energy, ocean cycles and global temperatures.

During that same period, average annual rainfall in New South Wales declined by 3.6 inches (92 millimeters).3 Scientists think the decline in autumn rainfall in southeast Australia since the late 1950s may be partly due to increases in heat - trapping gases in Earth's atmosphere.3, 14 Major bushfires over southeast Australia are linked to the positive phase of an ocean cycle called the «Indian Ocean Dipole» — when sea surface temperatures are warmer than average in the western Indian Ocean, likely in response to global warming.1ocean cycle called the «Indian Ocean Dipole» — when sea surface temperatures are warmer than average in the western Indian Ocean, likely in response to global warming.1Ocean Dipole» — when sea surface temperatures are warmer than average in the western Indian Ocean, likely in response to global warming.1Ocean, likely in response to global warming.15, 16

El Niño has so far left much of California in the dust, failing to bring the legendary storms linked to the periodic ocean - warming phenomenon.

jimmi: An afterthought: as mentioned in the post and as discussed and illustrated in detail in the linked posts, the both El Nino and La Nina events warm the East Indian and West Pacific Oceans, and these warmings can be and are cumulative.

With respect to your realclimate link, they searched and found a few reports that discussed very specific climate models of the Antarctic and the Southern Ocean to illustrate that «A cold Antarctica and Southern Ocean do not contradict our models of global warming.

Steve Fitzpatrick says: «It is an real contribution to link the ENSO to the AMO (this gives the AMO a more solid rational for influencing global temperatures), but it is I think unwise to suggest that ENSO driven cycles are (rather than could possibly be) responsible for most of the observed ocean surface warming since 1900.»

It is an real contribution to link the ENSO to the AMO (this gives the AMO a more solid rational for influencing global temperatures), but it is I think unwise to suggest that ENSO driven cycles are (rather than could possibly be) responsible for most of the observed ocean surface warming since 1900.

These glaciers are being eaten away from underneath due to warm ocean waters that have been driven toward the continent by shifting wind patterns that have in turn been linked to manmade global warming, as well as natural climate variability.

The paper by Dr. Petr Chylek et al., you linked to suggests that 2x [CO2] is approximate 1.7 degrees, which is pretty much the same as that calculated by anyone who uses ocean warming / cooling cycles in their deconvolution.

There's a link to an observational study and to the 2 part SkS series by Rob Painting highlighting the Meehl et al model - based study that suggests this is a HUGE phenomenon occurring in the ocean gyres explaining 700 - 2000m warming.

At the same time, ocean acidification and warmer waters caused by climate change have decimated salmon stocks, including the prized blueback sockeye, a unique salmon species intimately linked to the Quinault people and their cultural identity.