Sentences with phrase «pacific ocean carbon»

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These sensors could reveal patterns that help explain why the tropical Pacific emits carbon dioxide, rather than absorbing it like most of the rest of ocean.

In addition to temperature, wind, and solar radiation data, the Pacific saildrones are measuring how the ocean and air exchange gases like carbon dioxide and oxygen, and they are using Doppler instruments to gauge currents coursing up to 100 meters below the surface.

A long - standing puzzle in ocean photosynthesis was why phytoplankton failed to grow fast in parts of the Pacific Ocean; after all, the microscopic plants have access to plenty of carbon dioxide thanks to upwelling wocean photosynthesis was why phytoplankton failed to grow fast in parts of the Pacific Ocean; after all, the microscopic plants have access to plenty of carbon dioxide thanks to upwelling wOcean; after all, the microscopic plants have access to plenty of carbon dioxide thanks to upwelling water.

In his Scripps Research Institute office perched above a golf course along the Pacific Ocean in La Jolla, Calif., he is at ease, helpful and patient answering basic questions — why is it important to develop a new way to make a carbon - carbon...

The point, says Bill Asher of Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Richland, is to try to understand how waves of different sizes help carbon dioxide move from the air into the ocean.

Pacific Ocean water is already high in carbon dioxide and has higher acidity.

Prevailing winds across the Pacific are pushing thousands of tons of other contaminants — including mercury, sulfates, ozone, black carbon, and desert dust — over the ocean each year.

Volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides from Asian cars and industry mix in the atmosphere as they cross the Pacific Ocean and convert in sunlight into ozone, a main ingredient in smog, Jaffe explains.

For assessing the global ocean - carbon sink, McKinley and her co-authors from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NCAR and the University of Colorado Boulder used the model to establish a long - running climate scenario from historical data.

Fake paper fools global warming naysayers The man - made - global - warming - is - a-hoax crowd latched onto a study this week in the Journal of Geoclimatic Studies by researchers at the University of Arizona's Department of Climatology, who reported that soil bacteria around the Atlantic and Pacific oceans belch more than 300 times the carbon dioxide released by all fossil fuel emission, strongly implying that humans are not to blame for climate change.

But it would have been nice to hear the authors» thoughts on recent Japanese proposals to attempt to bioengineer even more productive living coral reefs and plant them in the Pacific to increase the power of the oceans to absorb carbon.

The urchins live on the Pacific coast of North America, where they often experience upwellings of carbon - dioxide - rich water from the deep ocean.

So there are cycles, possibly related to ocean conditions in the Pacific, which can bring about super-droughts even without fossil fuelled carbon in the atmosphere.

There's typically an initial ocean uptake as tropical East Pacific upwelling (CO2 degassing) is reduced, followed by a stronger release of carbon from land.

The findings of the Census of Marine Life Tagging of Pacific Predators project, published online today in the journal Nature, are particularly significant because they come just days after another evaluation of the world's oceans pointed to severe disruption driven by over-exploitation, rising carbon dioxide concentrations, torrents of nutrients choking coastal waters and rising temperatures.

Thousands of years ago the circulation of the North Pacific ocean changed substantially, releasing large quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, scientists in Scotland have found.

The global warming theory has been based all along on the idea that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans would absorb much of the greenhouse warming caused by a rise in man - made carbon dioxide, then they would let off that heat and warm the atmosphere and the land.

PACific Dust EXperiment «The long range transport of dust and anthropogenic aerosols (e.g, black carbon, organics and sulfates, and air pollution from Eurasia, across the Pacific Ocean, into North America is one of the most wide spread and major pollution events on the PACific Dust EXperiment «The long range transport of dust and anthropogenic aerosols (e.g, black carbon, organics and sulfates, and air pollution from Eurasia, across the Pacific Ocean, into North America is one of the most wide spread and major pollution events on the Pacific Ocean, into North America is one of the most wide spread and major pollution events on the planet.

Scientists plumbing the depths of the central equatorial Pacific Ocean have found ancient sediments suggesting that one proposed way to mitigate climate warming — fertilizing the oceans with iron to produce more carbon - eating algae — may not necessarily work as envisioned.

During the Earth's ice ages the Pacific Ocean stored large amounts of carbon, which for some reason it released again close to the last glacial period's end, warming the world and melting most of the icecaps.

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[IRON STRESSED] PLANKTON FOUND TO ABSORB LESS CARBON DIOXIDE, BBC, 08/30/06 The amount of carbon absorbed by plant plankton in large segments of the Pacific Ocean is much less than previously estimated, researcherCARBON DIOXIDE, BBC, 08/30/06 The amount of carbon absorbed by plant plankton in large segments of the Pacific Ocean is much less than previously estimated, researchercarbon absorbed by plant plankton in large segments of the Pacific Ocean is much less than previously estimated, researchers say.

The lowest radiocarbon ratios of dissolved inorganic carbon are found in the deep Pacific with values that are about 240 permil or so lower than the atmosphere or about 200 permil lower compared to the surface ocean.

The 10,000 - person republic has a land mass smaller than the District of Columbia, but its government has jurisdiction over a large swath of Pacific Ocean — otherwise known as «blue carbon» for its effectiveness as a carbon capture sink.

The Pacific Ocean may be primed by reduced solar activity to more eastern ocean upwelling of cold and nutrient rich water burping carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere — and what energy there was in the western Pacific has dissipated off the eastern maOcean may be primed by reduced solar activity to more eastern ocean upwelling of cold and nutrient rich water burping carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere — and what energy there was in the western Pacific has dissipated off the eastern maocean upwelling of cold and nutrient rich water burping carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere — and what energy there was in the western Pacific has dissipated off the eastern margin.

Although higher concentrations of carbon dioxide reduce the pH of the ocean to some degree, it still remains slightly alkaline; pH values range from 8.2 (in the Norwegian Sea of the North Atlantic) to 7.9 (in the Eastern Pacific and Arabian Sea)[Doney 2006].

Figure 9 - A Effect of the doubling of the carbon dioxide content of the air: note on the lowest graphic the 7 °C hot spot at 250 mbar and on the middle graphic +12 °C in winter on the rim of Antarctica and on the arctic polar cycle, +5 °C over the Sahara, +4 °C over the whole Pacific ocean.

Conversely, water - soluble particulate iron over the Pacific Ocean is linked to elemental carbon emissions resulting from anthropogenic activity in Asia (Chuang et al., 2005).

This current plays a crucial role linking the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific oceans, while also acting as one of the great heat and carbon sinks for the atmosphere.

Potential carbon dioxide (CO2) drawdown through dust - induced iron fertilization of ocean biota is restricted to high - nutrient, low - chlorophyll (HNLC) regions, mainly the Southern Ocean and northern Pacific where iron is the limiting micronutrient (6,ocean biota is restricted to high - nutrient, low - chlorophyll (HNLC) regions, mainly the Southern Ocean and northern Pacific where iron is the limiting micronutrient (6,Ocean and northern Pacific where iron is the limiting micronutrient (6, 13).

Kiribati, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean, has thesmallest carbon footprint.

The low - lying Pacific Ocean archipelago is probably doomed unless carbon dioxide emissions are reined in sharply and rapidly, but it is also home to one of the world's biggest shipping registries.