Sentences with phrase «southern ocean study»

«We're confident it will work now that we have figured out how to launch a torpedo from an Antarctic research vessel,» says Garth Paltridge, director of the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies at the University of Tasmania.

Garth W. Paltridge, PhD, atmospheric physicist, Emeritus Professor and former Director of the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia

Not exact matches

The coolest growing region in all of California, as cited in a study by the University of Southern Oregon, the Edna Valley is a mere 5.4 miles from the Pacific Ocean.

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

She plans to return to the Southern Ocean later this year to study interactions between the sea and the atmosphere and to figure out how some of those newly discovered species get by.

«The main issue is that there is only a handful of islands in the Southern Ocean and not all of them are suitable to sustain large breeding colonies» says Robin Cristofari, first author of the study, from the Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC / CNRS / University of Strasbourg) and the Centre Scientifique de Monaco (CSM).

The marine geologist and first author of the study explains, «Only in the short southern spring and summer, for just a few months in the year, was there a marked stratification at the ocean's surface.

Their study, published today in Nature Geoscience, shows that the Southern Ocean melted 1,463 km2 of Antarctica's underwater ice between 2010 and 2016 — an area the size of Greater London.

«There is no convincing evidence that a sufficiently large reservoir of old metabolic carbon existed in some mysterious location in the glacial ocean only to be ventilated during deglaciation,» argues paleoclimatologist Lowell Stott of the University of Southern California, who was not involved in the study.

A study led by researchers at the University of Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration connects the unprecedented West Coast toxic algal bloom of 2015 that closed fisheries from southern California to northern British Columbia to the unusually warm ocean conditions — nicknamed «the blob» — in winter and spring of that year.

For their study, the researchers used newly developed methods to reconstruct sedimentary deposits from the Atlantic section of the Southern Ocean.

A new study links the frequency of tornadoes and hailstorms in parts of the southern United States to ENSO, a cyclic temperature pattern in the Pacific Ocean.

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

Studying more lakes could also reveal whether their discharges of minerals affect the chemistry and biological productivity of the Southern Ocean.

A new study has found that turbulent mixing in the deep waters of the Southern Ocean, which has a profound effect on global ocean circulation and climate, varies with the strength of surface eddies — the ocean equivalent of storms in the atmosphere — and possibly also wind spOcean, which has a profound effect on global ocean circulation and climate, varies with the strength of surface eddies — the ocean equivalent of storms in the atmosphere — and possibly also wind spocean circulation and climate, varies with the strength of surface eddies — the ocean equivalent of storms in the atmosphere — and possibly also wind spocean equivalent of storms in the atmosphere — and possibly also wind speeds.

The popular view that Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are in a much better environmental shape than the rest of the world has been brought into question in a study publishing on March 28 in the open access journal PLOS Biology, by an international team lead by Steven L. Chown and Monash University scientists.

To study the movement of vent products, the researchers set up sediment traps and current meters near the hydrothermal vents along the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge located about 800 kilometers off the southern coast of Mexico and a mile and a half below sea level.

«Mixing it up: Study provides new insight into Southern Ocean behavior.»

Professor Drijfhout said: «This study attributes the increased oceanic heat drawdown in the equatorial Pacific, North Atlantic and Southern Ocean to specific, different mechanisms in each region.

During a 3 - month - long, first - of - its - kind field study at a breeding colony in the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, researchers taped tiny, 100 - gram GPS receivers between the wings of nesting birds, gathering 36 days» worth of flight data from 16 different birds.

«Eastern Australian salmon is highly vulnerable because their distribution is limited to shallow coastal and estuarine waters in southern Australia and New Zealand,» said Miranda Jones, the study's lead author, who was a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries when the study was underway.

An international team of researchers analyzed the available data taken from all previous studies of the Southern Ocean, together with satellite images taken of the area, to quantify the amount of iron supplied to the surface waters of the Southern Ocean.

«A huge difficulty in all of this is that the Southern Ocean is big, deep, complex, hard to study, and in general less known than most of the world ocean,» he Ocean is big, deep, complex, hard to study, and in general less known than most of the world ocean,» he ocean,» he said.

Richard Alley, a Penn State geosciences professor who wasn't involved with the new study, said far more work is needed to understand the effects of wind and ocean changes in the Southern Hemisphere's most frigid stretches.

The temperature difference between the Southern Great Plains and the Atlantic Ocean produces winds that carry moisture from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Plains, according to a recent study in Nature Communications.

«The primary goal of our study was to understand in which region of the Southern Ocean the large icebergs melt, adding massive quantities of freshwater in the process.

Actinobacterial community structure in the Polar Frontal waters of the Southern Ocean of the Antarctica using Geographic Information System (GIS): A novel approach to study Ocean Microbiome — P. Sivasankar — Data in Brief

If it is true, as some studies suggest for example, that El Nino events become more frequent and greater in magnitude due to anthropogenic forcing (this is not yet a settled issue), then, given the established relationship between the El Nino / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the extratropical Pacific / North American atmospheric circulation, we might expect increased baroclinicity and greater storminess over a substantial region of the mid-latitude North Pacific ocean and neighboring western U.S..

Ecological relationships of krill and whales have not been explored in the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP), and have only rarely been studied elsewhere in the Southern Ocean.

Southern Ocean sperm whales have emerged as an unexpected ally in the fight against global warming, removing the equivalent carbon emissions from 40, cars each year thanks to their faeces, a study has found.

A 1983 study conducted by climate researcher Kevin Trenberth found that the meteorological definition more closely agreed with observable weather in the continental regions of the northern hemisphere, while the astronomical definition only fit reality better over the oceans in the southern hemisphere.

Methods: The study combines computer modeling with satellite data over the Southern Ocean, the vast sea surrounding Antarctica.

From its base in Namibia, the Observations of Clouds above Aerosols and their Interactions (ORACLES) study will use airborne instruments this fall to probe the impact on climate and rainfall of the interaction between clouds over the southeastern Atlantic Ocean and smoke from vegetation burning in southern Africa.

Permafrost outgassing is similarly a major issue — and what about all the studies on the Southern Ocean sink saturation — they don't matter either?

She has participated in thirteen shipboard expeditions of which four studied hydrothermal habitats in the Southern Ocean.

This is not even close to a new finding, but the new study shows more precisely where most of the heat has been going since 2006 (in the Southern Ocean outside the tropics; see the red splotches in the map below).

The community [studying] seasonal and longer climate variability was (and still is) dominated by the ocean community and especially a decade ago [the El Niño Southern Oscillation] ENSO was the only boundary forcing that anyone was paying attention to.

Plougonven, R., A. Hertzog and M.J. Alexander (2015) Case studies of nonorographic gravity waves over the Southern Ocean emphasize the role of moisture.

That this report has Affiliation with (I will not show the long list of scientific organizations affiliated with this study, Skeptical Science, for obvious reasons, is not mentioned) Publication Date: 12/2011 «Our interpretation, based on ikaite isotopes, provides additional qualitative evidence that both the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age were extended to the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic Peninsula.»

As Howard noted, the Southern Ocean has absorbed lots of manmade CO2 while temperatures and nutrients have not changed as much, making it more ideal for studying ocean acidification than other aOcean has absorbed lots of manmade CO2 while temperatures and nutrients have not changed as much, making it more ideal for studying ocean acidification than other aocean acidification than other areas.

John currently holds a 1600 ton USCG Ocean Master's license for sail & steam and earned his BS in Environmental Studies from Southern Vermont College and a graduate degree from University of Rhode Island's Marine Affairs program.

For as long as climatologists have studied it, the Southern Ocean has been almost ice - free in summer, the time of year when it would receive enough heat from the Sun to have a large effect.

But as relatively warm water from deep reaches of the Southern Ocean moved onto the continental shelf, the thinning sped up, melting the ice shelves from underneath, the researchers of the new study concluded.

Based upon the study, they conjectured that the response in the Southern Hemisphere should be delayed as compared to that in the Northern Hemisphere because of the inter-hemisphere difference in the fraction of the area covered by the oceans.»

«The Southern [Ocean] works well [to study this issue] as it is a region where anthropogenic CO2 uptake, and thus acidification, has progressed more than in other regions.

Dolan joined a group of scientists to study krill, a tiny crustacean that is critical to the Southern Ocean food web.

The US CLIVAR / OCB Southern Ocean Working Group was formed to identify critical observational targets and develop data / model metrics based on the currently available observational data, both physical and tracer, and the assimilative modeling (re) analyses, and evaluate and develop our understanding of the importance of mesoscale eddies in the heat and carbon uptake and of the response of the Southern Ocean to a changing climate, using high - resolution numerical studies and theory.

The Southern Ocean and Antarctic systems offer remarkable natural experimental models for studying disrupted ecosystems.

A separate study in August (2014) in the journal Science said the apparent slowdown in the Earth's surface warming in the last 15 years could be due to that heat being trapped in the deep Atlantic and Southern Ocean.

The literature on atmosphere / ocean interaction and the annular modes is heavily skewed towards the Northern Hemisphere: there are hundreds of studies on the impact of the NAM on the North Atlantic Ocean but still only a handful of studies on the impact of the SAM on the Southern Oocean interaction and the annular modes is heavily skewed towards the Northern Hemisphere: there are hundreds of studies on the impact of the NAM on the North Atlantic Ocean but still only a handful of studies on the impact of the SAM on the Southern OOcean but still only a handful of studies on the impact of the SAM on the Southern OceanOcean.