Sentences with phrase «world ocean sink»

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Now that you, O sage, have yourself crossed the ocean of the world of becoming, please rescue also the other living beings who have sunk so deep into suffering!

The Southern Ocean sink strength is, at present, determined by the winds in that part of the world.

At various points in Earth's history, dust fell into the ocean and fed algae, which gobbled up carbon dioxide and sank to the bottom of the sea, taking greenhouse gas with them and cooling the world.

Small filter - feeding animals in the world's oceans take in bits of plastic and excrete them in pellets that sink to the ocean floor.

«It essentially means that, through multiple means, in a world with mixotrophs, more organic carbon is sinking into the deep ocean than in a world without mixotrophs,» Follows says.

Here was a gigantic laboratory flask with a whole tropical forest and an ocean inside it — models of what many scientists suspected were the two biggest carbon sinks in the world.

And the warming of the upper 2 kilometers of the world ocean — a huge heat sink relative to the atmosphere — continued apace through the 2000s.

Their effect was only to expand the world's calcium carbonate sinks from the shallow continental shelves to some of the deeper ocean (Westbroek 1991).»

Of the carbon that gets pumped into the air, about 30 to 40 percent sinks into the world's oceans, lowering the pH of the water and making it more acidic each year.

Set your gaze to the ocean horizon on Maui's south shore, and there, about 3 miles off in the distance, you'll spot the half - sunken cinder cone MOLOKINI, a world - class snorkel and dive location that can be reached only by boat.

Perhaps Zanzibar's pristine beaches and azure Indian Ocean would have been the perfect place for some to let the excitement of the safari sink in before returning to the working world.

We offer the PADI referral course over just two days (4 Ocean Dives) and includes dives at some of Bali's best dive sites around Padang Bai and Tulamben, most notably the ship wreck of the USAT Liberty ship wreck, sunk during World War 2.

As sims tend to be, it was as slow as you can imagine as you sail the waters of the Pacific Ocean during World War II and finding enemy ships to sink with your torpedoes by utilizing realistic tactics, hoping that they don't do the same to you in the process.

Photos by Hiroshi Sugimoto document famous Pequod locales (the Nantucket site from which it launched and the Pacific Ocean, where it sank), Argentine artist Adrián Villar Rojas crafts a giant clay sculpture of a white whale in real time, Angela Bulloch contemplates the night sky, and Kirsten Pieroth collects samples of water from the world's oceans.

Whereas PPM Data is immediate and accurately measurable and comparable to the «real world» be it back to human emissions, be it sources, be it sinks, be it ocean acidity, be it climate forcing long term and more than anything the dynamics of PPM is easily explained and communicated as a Definitive Yardstick or success or failure in meeting Goals (imho).

Many of the surface currents of the world oceans (i.e., the ocean «gyres» which appear as rotating horizontal current systems in the upper ocean) are driven by the wind, however, the sinking in the Arctic is related to the buoyancy forcing (effects that change either the temperature or salinity of the water, and hence its buoyancy).

For example, conditions at the poles affect how much heat is retained by the earth because of the reflective properties of ice and snow, the world's ocean circulation depends on sinking in polar regions, and melting of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets could have drastic effects on sea level.

After sinking, the water circulates around the world ocean (eventually rising up in the Indian and North Pacific oceans).

The new findings will boost our understanding of the supply chain to the world's biggest carbon sink — the bottom of the ocean.

Because only very cold surface water is able to sink, it is simple to understand that the deep ocean can never warm up, regardless of how warm the surface ocean around the world may become.

The world's oceans are carbon sinks that sequester a third of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.

The ocean is the world's biggest carbon sink.

Melting glaciers have long been linked to rising sea levels but the melting ice has also added so much water to the world's ocean that the seabed now sinks underneath the increasing weight.

The tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu is urging the rest of the world to do more to combat global warming, before the island - state sinks beneath the ocean's lapping waves.

They wanted to simulate what would happen to the carbon sinks on the land and the ocean for each model as the world gets warmer.

Being denser than warm water it then sank and flowed out along the bottom of the ocean in deep ocean currents, eventually filling the depths of the ocean basins around the world.

«The paper by Skinner provides important evidence the Southern Ocean is at least a substantial source of the CO2 increase (by showing a 50 % decrease of 14C in the atmospheric CO2), which is a critical piece of the puzzle when trying to understand, model, and quantify the CO2 source / sink behaviour of the Southern Ocean in a warming world today and in the future.

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To test this theory, researchers compared the abundance of algae in the surface waters of the world's oceans with the amount of carbon actually sinking to deep water.

Their effect was only to expand the world's calcium carbonate sinks from the shallow continental shelves to some of the deeper ocean (Westbroek 1991).»

Despite the total area of these three carbon sinks being only about 2 percent of the world ocean's surface area, they bury more than four times more carbon than the oceans (table 1).

The world's oceans are one of the biggest carbon pools, or sinks, in the global carbon cycle.

Soon, the mathematics of the UCSB researchers will help reveal that given differences in ocean temperature, for example, in an especially a real world example of the Earth rotating on its axis with warm water at the bottom of an ocean of colder water on the top, that the cold water will sink.