Sentences with phrase «pacific ocean as a whole»

... then why do the vertical mean temperature anomalies (NODC 0 - 2000 meter data) of the Pacific Ocean as a whole and of the North Atlantic fail to show any warming over the past decade, a period when ARGO floats have measured subsurface temperatures, providing reasonably complete coverage of the global oceans?

Not exact matches

When the tropical easterly trade winds strengthen, as they have from the year 2000 onwards, this whole wind - driven ocean circulation becomes more vigorous, the South Pacific subtropical gyre spins up, and the western arm of the gyre exports more tropical water through the Indonesian archipelago into the Indian Oocean circulation becomes more vigorous, the South Pacific subtropical gyre spins up, and the western arm of the gyre exports more tropical water through the Indonesian archipelago into the Indian OceanOcean.

The PDO is calculated by examining the difference in temperatures of the northern Pacific from global ocean temperatures as a whole in order to isolate changes specific to that region.

Since the whole ocean, Atlantic and Pacific, has warmed, as well as unpopulated land areas, doesn't that rather rule out UHI as being much of a factor, and, being a net warming, it also wouldn't be ocean circulation changes.

As the world waits to see whether Boylan Slat really can clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a whole lot of ocean plastic is still washing up on beaches across the world.