Sentences with phrase «accompanying warming of ocean»

This past fall, hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria wreaked unprecedented devastation on communities across Texas, Florida, and the Caribbean, with the impacts of each heightened by climate change and the accompanying warming of ocean waters.

Not exact matches

The results show that colonisation of the marine environment about 180 million years ago was accompanied by a period of global warming of the oceans.

«The authors write that «the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a naturally occurring fluctuation,» whereby «on a timescale of two to seven years, the eastern equatorial Pacific climate varies between anomalously cold (La Niña) and warm (El Niño) conditions,» and that «these swings in temperature are accompanied by changes in the structure of the subsurface ocean, variability in the strength of the equatorial easterly trade winds, shifts in the position of atmospheric convection, and global teleconnection patterns associated with these changes that lead to variations in rainfall and weather patterns in many parts of the world,» which end up affecting «ecosystems, agriculture, freshwater supplies, hurricanes and other severe weather events worldwide.»»

The warm / rainy phase of a composited average of fifteen oscillations is accompanied by a net reduction in radiative input into the ocean - atmosphere system, with longwave heating anomalies transitioning to longwave cooling during the rainy phase.

This has been accompanied by warming of the ocean, a rise in sea level, a strong decline in Arctic sea ice, and many other associated climate effects.

The surge in atmospheric CO2 that accompanies an ENSO warming event is obviously measured in gigatons, and this from a temperature change in a relatively small portion of the total ocean.