Sentences with phrase «warmer ocean water temperatures»

Rising Seas: Warmer ocean water temperatures, the pumping of ground water, and melting of the polar ice sheets have added water to the oceans, contributing to sea level rise.

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But many species of these algae are highly sensitive to temperature, and are unable to survive as ocean waters warm.

Warming temperatures causes ocean water to expand, which raises sea level and glacial ice to melt that creates water that makes its way into ocean basins.

Higher sea surface temperatures led to a huge patch of warm water, dubbed «The Blob,» that appeared in the northern Pacific Ocean more than two years ago.

Despite slower temperature shifts in ocean waters, ocean life from plankton to fish have begun moving in response to global warming

This water is warming an average of 0.03 degrees Celsius per year, with temperatures at the deepest ocean sensors sometimes exceeding 0.3 degrees Celsius or 33 degrees Fahrenheit, Muenchow said.

TURTLE TROUBLE Green sea turtle populations in parts of the Great Barrier Reef are becoming increasingly female because their eggs are being incubated at higher temperatures due to warming ocean waters.

But temperature measurements taken off the continent's coast found warm water brewing up from the ocean depths.

Southern Ocean seafloor water temperatures are projected to warm by an average of 0.4 °C over this century with some areas possibly increasing by as much as 2 °C.

His discoveries have also revealed how warming ocean temperatures and acidification of ocean water caused by climate change lead to coral bleaching and death.

As of March 2013, surface waters of the tropical north Atlantic Ocean remained warmer than average, while Pacific Ocean temperatures declined from a peak in late fall.

They pointed to a warmer atmosphere, which carries more water vapor to worsen rainstorms, as well as to higher ocean surface temperatures, which intensify hurricanes.

Warmer air temperatures cause more water containing the heavier isotopes oxygen - 18 or deuterium to evaporate from the surrounding ocean.

Taylor and her colleagues also tested water temperature and pH levels in the laboratory to study the impact of ocean warming and acidification on the exoskeletons of several species of crustacean.

The wind keeps a layer of warm water near the surface in Indonesia, reducing the temperature difference across the Indian Ocean and so minimising the strength of positive IOD events.

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion A technology using the temperature difference between cold, deep ocean waters and warmer surface waters to generate electriOcean Thermal Energy Conversion A technology using the temperature difference between cold, deep ocean waters and warmer surface waters to generate electriocean waters and warmer surface waters to generate electricity.

«When we included projected Antarctic wind shifts in a detailed global ocean model, we found water up to 4 °C warmer than current temperatures rose up to meet the base of the Antarctic ice shelves,» said lead author Dr Paul Spence from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS).

However, when temperatures warm over the Antarctic regions, deep waters rise from the floor of the ocean much closer to the continent.

Besides shrinking in extent, the sea ice cap is also thinning and becoming more vulnerable to the action of ocean waters, winds and warmer temperatures.

This interplay between climate and wind can lead to sea level rise simply by moving water from one place in the ocean to another, said Greene — no warming of the air, or of ocean temperatures required.

Cheung and his colleague used modeling to predict how 802 commercially important species of fish and invertebrates react to warming water temperatures, other changing ocean properties, and new habitats opening up at the poles.

«Atlantic / Pacific ocean temperature difference fuels US wildfires: New study shows that difference in water temperature between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans together with global warming impact the risk of drought and wildfire in southwestern North America.»

El Niño has helped to boost temperatures this year, as it leads to warmer ocean waters in the tropical Pacific, as well as warmer surface temperatures in many other spots around the globe, including much of the northern half of the U.S..

They reason that with warmer temperatures, there was more water available to act as a lubricant beneath the glaciers, easing their inexorable slide to the ocean.

Invasive species are entering the region with or without shipping, says Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado; warming of the Arctic Ocean's surface temperatures has already increased mixing with foreign waters and all the microbes they contain.

The study marks the first time that human influence on the climate has been demonstrated in the water cycle, and outside the bounds of typical physical responses such as warming deep ocean and sea surface temperatures or diminishing sea ice and snow cover extent.

The Gulf Stream, an ocean current that brings warm water from the equator toward the North Atlantic, has been credited with this observed variation in temperature for over a century.

Ocean circulation drives the movement of warm and cold waters around the world, so it is essential to storing and regulating heat and plays a key role in Earth's temperature and climate.

If water temperatures in the Atlantic are higher than normal, as they are now, hurricanes, which feed off warm ocean water, are more likely to form.

The north - south gradient of increasing glacier retreat was found to show a strong pattern with ocean temperatures, whereby water is cold in the north - west, and becomes progressively warmer at depths below 100m further south.

With higher levels of carbon dioxide and higher average temperatures, the oceans» surface waters warm and sea ice disappears, and the marine world will see increased stratification, intense nutrient trapping in the deep Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean) and nutrition starvation in the other oceans.

The National Weather Service outlooks, and most climate models, focus primarily on the connection between El Nino / La Nina (cycles of warmer and cooler water temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean) and weather in the continental U.S..

Time series of temperature anomaly for all waters warmer than 14 °C show large reductions in interannual to inter-decadal variability and a more spatially uniform upper ocean warming trend (0.12 Wm − 2 on average) than previous results.

The research published in Nature Communications found that in the past, when ocean temperatures around Antarctica became more layered - with a warm layer of water below a cold surface layer - ice sheets and glaciers melted much faster than when the cool and warm layers mixed more easily.

South of Spitzbergen, the oceans have been ice free the past 2 winters, reason being, the warm waters from the Gulf Stream are travelling further north, and closer to the ocean surface, only 25 meters at the last measurement, The ocean temperature has been +2 C instead of -2 C.

Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere not only alters the ocean's chemistry, it's increasing the temperature of the atmosphere and warming waters, too.

CO2 is more soluble in colder than in warmer waters; therefore, changes in surface and deep ocean temperature have the potential to alter atmospheric CO2.

The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet, because as ice melts at the top of the world, there is less of it to reflect sunlight back into space, so more of it is absorbed by ocean waters; more absorbed sunlight means even warmer temperatures, which means more ice melt a circular process known as Arctic amplification.

A new paper from the Sea Around Us Project published in the journal Nature reveals that warmer ocean temperatures are driving marine species towards cooler, deeper waters, and this in turn, has affected global fisheries catches.

They created a model to determine how temperatures of ocean waters could change shallow reef systems when sea levels rise and climate warms in the future.

Rising ocean waters and air temperatures are essentially putting ice in a vise grip of warming and speeding up melt.

Hurricanes feed off warm water and the theory that rising ocean temperatures are making them stronger than they would otherwise have been has been around for a long time.

As the ocean warms, for example, it releases CO2 to the atmosphere, with one principal mechanism being the simple fact that the solubility of CO2 decreases as the water temperature rises [204].

La Niña is associated with cooler than normal water temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean, unlike El Niño which is associated with warmer than normal water temperatures.

In any year, temperatures around the world can be nudged up or down by short - term factors like volcanic eruptions or El Ninos, when warm water spreads over much of the tropical Pacific Ocean.

The average ocean temperature hovers around 73 degrees in August, making it the warmest ocean water off the coast of California.

The water temperature was warmer than any place we've dived before, making it easy to be in and out of the ocean throughout the day.

The water was a little too cold for my liking (I like my ocean water a lovely tepid to warm temperature) but Michael braved it.

The air is clean, with a nice ocean breeze, and the water temperature is a warm seventy - eight degrees, year round, so you can leave your wetsuit at home.

The temperature inside the cave is always at least one degree warmer than the surrounding ocean and the water is always clear.