Sentences with phrase «about ocean conditions»

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However, while rangeomorphs were highly suited to their Ediacaran environment, conditions in the oceans continued to change and from about 541 million years ago the «Cambrian Explosion» began — a period of rapid evolutionary development when most major animal groups first appeared in the fossil record.

LeVine says that the main problem is a lack of scientific knowledge about the baseline conditions in the region, in terms of everything from ocean currents to animal populations.

Sprinkle the sea with OceanCubes The OceanCube, which is about double the size of an air conditioning radiator, is encased with plastic and is connected to steel - armored fiber optic cables snaking along the ocean floor.

The science team obtained vital information about the physical characteristics within one large warm - water eddy, which likely originated from the North Brazil Current, and analyzed its potential influence on sub-surface ocean conditions during the passage of tropical cyclones.

A sample from the new pipe in Liberia, he says, could offer insight into conditions in the mantle about 150 million years ago, when a rift opened up between Africa and South America and created the Atlantic Ocean.

Ocean conditions off most of the U.S. West Coast are returning roughly to average, after an extreme marine heat wave from about 2014 to 2016 disrupted the California Current Ecosystem and shifted many species beyond their traditional range, according to a new report from NOAA Fisheries» two marine laboratories on the West Coast.

I'd love to know what they did take into account in attempting to model that period — must include astronomical location, sun's behavior, best estimates about a lot of different conditions — where the continents were, what the ocean circulation was doing, whether there had been a recent geological period that laid down a lot of methane hydrates available to be tipped by Pliocene warming into bubbling out rapidly.

The result is a comprehensive, detailed and unique report about the state of the world's oceans and their interplay with ecological, economic and sociopolitical conditions.

To learn more about equatorial ocean conditions in the Pacific, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) deployed moored open - ocean buoys that track the sea - surface conditions.

Further analysis is of particular interest to Cassini scientists, since the geysers can provide information about the conditions in the ocean below.

In the paper Gray makes many extravagant claims about how supposed changes in the THC accounted for various 20th century climate changes («I judge our present global ocean circulation conditions to be similar to that of the period of the early 1940s when the globe had shown great warming since 1910, and there was concern as to whether this 1910 - 1940 global warming would continue.

«It's very exciting that we can use these tiny grains of rock, spewed into space by geysers, to tell us about conditions on — and beneath — the ocean floor of an icy moon,» said the paper's lead author Sean Hsu, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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.

Ocean conditions can change so quickly, it's always a great idea to ask someone about the water visibility, current, waves, etc..

This was my second tour with them on Santa Cruz Island and I love that each trip is unique — depending on the ocean conditions, the wildlife sightings, and each guide has their own bit of knowledge to teach about the area.

The weather kiosk features real - time online weather updates and practical information about effects of weather on ocean conditions in the Santa Barbara channel and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

When conditions get just right, ocean swells pile up against an offshore reef, about 2 miles off the Northern California coastline near Half Moon...

Your objective will be to ride a wave standing on a surfboard, but beside you will learn plenty about the ocean, weather and wave conditions and water safety as well.

About Indah Manis: The property is designed to be both a high - end luxury holiday villa for large groups of families and friends, and is thoughtfully built to capture the cool ocean breezes even at the hottest time of year, offering a blend of air - conditioned comfort and tropical open - air living.

The ocean conditions that morning were not favorable, but luckily, we paddled with the wind for about two hours towards our enchanting campsite.

Hi Joshua - unless you are experienced at recognizing and dealing with Hawaiian ocean conditions, be very careful about swimming to Honopu.

and even if you were thinking about doing it in the «calmer» season (summer, early fall) you should be experienced ocean swimmer and be able to read Hawaii's ocean conditions at all times.

It's not enough to be a strong swimmer, you need to know about Hawaiian Ocean conditions and surf.

«What's especially concerning about this current northern fur seal crisis is that this species has a particularly difficult time recovering from unfavorable ocean conditions, such as these warmer waters,» says Tenaya Norris, marine scientist at The Marine Mammal Center.

Like everywhere else it is advisable that you ask about the conditions of the ocean and waves before you go into the water.

Depending on Ocean conditions the boat ride is about 30 to 40 minutes to get to the furthest dive site (Chileno Bay): the Corridor is a perfect occasion also for non divers to join the group as the reefs close to the coast are very shallow and are great snorkeling spots, so bring family and friends on tour with you, they may even be interested in trying scuba diving by enrolling in a PADI Discover Scuba Diving (DSD) program.

When conditions are just right, ocean swells pile up against an offshore reef, about 2 miles / 3.2 kilometres off Northern California coastline near...

Due to ocean and wind currents and differences in geography, weather conditions are not exactly the same in Coron and El Nido, toward the northern tip of the province, as they are in Puerto Princesa, the capital city of the province located about 300 km southward.

But with atmospheric carbon climbing at an annual rate of 2 ppm and expected to accelerate to 3 ppm, levels could approach 900 ppm by the end of the next century, and conditions that bring about the beginnings of ocean anoxia may be in place.

But after the researchers raised one strain of the Emiliania huxleyi coccolithophore for over 700 generations, which took about 12 months, under high temperature and acidified conditions that are expected for the oceans 100 years from now, the organisms had no trouble producing their plated shells.

The surface heat capacity C (j = 0) was set to the equivalent of a global layer of water 50 m deep (which would be a layer ~ 70 m thick over the oceans) plus 70 % of the atmosphere, the latent heat of vaporization corresponding to a 20 % increase in water vapor per 3 K warming (linearized for current conditions), and a little land surface; expressed as W * yr per m ^ 2 * K (a convenient unit), I got about 7.093.

What you guys will not come clean about however, is that these initial conditions of the ocean / atmosphere also impart a large range of uncertainty on multi-decadal predictions, even though you are invoking changes in boundary values to gain skill.

Here again I completely part with solar proponents, there are so many instruments about measuring the sun everywhere, from space, from the ocean, even underground (cosmic rays), there are none as it is often repeated, no solar variation to justify GW present conditions.

Does this conclusion raise questions about the level of confidence in methods used to determine the mix of ocean conditions and other influences, like aerosols and greenhouse gases, that shape climate?

In 2005, during the hottest average decade on record, 8 low - wind conditions known as «the doldrums» combined with very high ocean temperatures to cause massive coral bleaching in the Virgin Islands.9 This was followed by a particularly severe outbreak of at least five coral diseases in the Virgin Islands, resulting in a decline in coral cover of about 60 percent.9 There is some indication that higher ocean temperatures — between 86 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit (30 to 35 degrees Celsius)-- promote optimal growth of several coral pathogens.9 Other research showed that elkhorn coral post-bleaching had larger disease lesions than unbleached specimens, suggesting that bleaching may increase the corals» susceptibility to disease.9, 10

In some locations, changes in ocean temperatures and atmospheric patterns brought about by El Niño lead to drier conditions, which increases the damage during «fire season».

Over the ocean this includes: sea surface slope and surface current, significant wave height, wind speed and sea level from radar altimetry at about 10 km resolution: sea surface temperature under cloud free conditions from the infrared radiometer at about 300 m resolution; chlorophyll a and phytoplankton from the imaging spectrometer under cloud free conditions at about 300 m resolution.

The entire region faces problems, in many cases driven by overfishing, and there has even been alarm about the condition of the albatross as it circles the southern ocean.

Sea surface temperature (SST) provides a measure of the surface ocean conditions, however no information about the subsurface ocean thermal structure (approximately the upper 50 m of the ocean) can be derived from SST alone.

Based on current atmosphere - ocean conditions, I believe the odds for this La Niña event to continue right through early summer (June - July 2012) are just about 50 %.

It's especially plausible given what we know about the sensitivity of climate to ocean surface conditions.

Also canceled was a state - of - the - art sensor designed to yield valuable new information about oceans and coastlines, winds, humidity and severe weather events, among other environmental conditions.

But key instruments on the new satellites have been eliminated: Gone is a sensor that would relay new data about the atmosphere and environmental conditions in the ocean and along coastal areas, including those in California.

In some locations, like Indonesia, the change in ocean temperatures and atmospheric patterns brought about by El Niño has the opposite effect — shifting thunderstorms eastward and causing extremely dry conditions.

Actually, I find the thinness of the ocean warm layer about as scary a condition as anything.

Finally, whereas most wind farms have harvestable wind conditions about half the time, ocean waves never stop their movement toward shore.

All that said, with all the talk about the conditions combining to make this such an unusual storm, there's one thing that really caught my eye, yet hasn't been reported ad nauseum yet: Higher than normal ocean temperatures in the Northeast, may make all of this worse.

In a new study published in the latest issue of the journal Science, Geerat Vermeij of UC Davis and Peter Roopnarine of the California Academy of Sciences write that climate change is creating conditions in the Arctic similar to those found during the warm mid-Pliocene epoch, about 3.5 million years ago, when a number of favorable factors helped many North Pacific mollusk species invade the warming Arctic Ocean and, eventually, the North Atlantic.