Sentences with phrase «allows warm ocean»

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These troughs allow warmer and saltier waters from deeper in the ocean to reach the glaciers and erode them.

RAPID RETREAT New seafloor data reveal that Køge Bugt (shown) and other fast - retreating glaciers in southeastern Greenland sit within deep fjords, allowing warm Atlantic Ocean water to speed up melting.

Any parts of the bed this low are easily exposed to ocean water, allowing the ice sheet to weaken from below as the ocean water warms.

Warm ocean waters, combined with little wind shear that could have torn the embryonic storm apart, allowed...

This means the warmer the oceans become, the less able its inhabitants will be to boost their metabolism to between two and five times their resting metabolic rate, which is what allows them to move, seek food and reproduce.

«The new data set will allow us to check if our ocean models can correctly represent changes in the flow of warm water under ice shelves,» he added.

Perhaps extra carbon dioxide from a period of heightened seafloor eruptions eventually percolates through the ocean and into the atmosphere, allowing warming that would deliver a coup de grâce to the massive ice sheets.

«As the climate gets warmer, the thawing permafrost not only enables the release of more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, but our study shows that it also allows much more mineral - laden and nutrient - rich water to be transported to rivers, groundwater and eventually the Arctic Ocean,» explained Ryan Toohey, a researcher at the Interior Department's Alaska Climate Science Center in Anchorage and the lead author of the study.

This allowed us to simulate a future climate scenario, characterized by both warmer waters and ocean acidification», explains researcher Christian Alsterberg.

If the water remained in the channel, the water would eventually cool to a point where it was not melting much ice, but the channels allow the water to flow out to the open ocean and warmer water to flow in, again melting the ice shelf from beneath.

El Niños arrive every 3 to 7 years when winds fail in the tropical Pacific, allowing warm water to pool in the eastern part of the ocean.

B. Riegl and S. Purkis's E-Letter on our recent Review (1) focuses on promoting assisted migration, based on a belief that local adaptation and (unassisted) migration will be insufficient to allow corals to cope with the effects of global warming and ocean acidification.

The discovery of genes involved in the production of DMSP in phytoplankton, as well as bacteria, will allow scientists to better evaluate which organisms make DMSP in the marine environment and predict how the production of this influential molecule might be affected by future environmental changes, such as the warming of the oceans due to climate change.

Johnson hypothesizes that warmer ocean temperatures in 2012 and 2013, which were 1.3 °C higher than the previous decade's average, allowed the crabs to move north.

That could allow heat from the ocean to be released into the atmosphere — causing a jump in atmospheric global warming, Trenberth says: «This could be a very important year.»

This means that even relatively small marine - protected areas could be effective in protecting the top - level predators and allowing coral reefs to more fully recover from coral bleaching or large cyclones which are increasing in frequency due to the warming of the oceans as a result of climate change.

Some 5C of warming appears to make the Oceans less dense allowing methane calthrates to be released from the Ocean floor en masse.

«The southeast of Australia will experience ocean warming that will allow some fish species to move south into temperate waters,» he said.

Scientists believe climate change — the warming of oceans — has allowed some of the almost 2,000 jellyfish species to expand their ranges, appear earlier in the year and increase overall numbers, much as warming has helped ticks, bark beetles and other pests to spread to new latitudes.

Melting sea ice will mean ocean currents can carry warmer water and nutrients into Arctic water, taking fish further north and potentially allowing them to mix between oceans.

The longevity of global warming (Fig. 9) and the implausibility of removing the warming if it is once allowed to penetrate the deep ocean emphasize the urgency of slowing emissions so as to stay close to the 500 GtC target.

So if you can explain to me how the atmosphere could cause these three oceans to warm and allow the rest to languish or cool, I would be very interested to hear it.

Reducing the heat lost to the atmosphere allows the oceans to steadily warm over time - as has been observed over the last half century.

As I understand this article, the decrease in temp gradient in the cool skin layer is what allows increases in atmospheric CO2 concentrations to further warm the oceans.

Located on the north coast, the warm Caribbean waters lap at the soft sand that defines this appealing resort, allowing visitors a place to relax in the sunshine or get active amid the fruitful ocean.

Dalebrook is quieter (fewer people know about it), it has an outdoor shower, space to sit against the wall, a change room, and large boulders that allow for skipping out into the pool before plunging into the Indian ocean's slightly warmer waters.

Buffalo City, as East London is charmingly known, not only lies on one of the most sublime coastlines of the world - think warm Indian Ocean waters and sub-tropical weather that allow visitors to enjoy the climate all year round - it also basks gloriously between the Nahoon River in the north and the Buffalo River to the south of the city, and the phrase «unspoilt beaches» was termed with East London's beaches in mind.

Located on the eastern side of Mauritius, an island glimmering in the warm currents of the Indian Ocean, Blue Bay is protected by a vast coral reef that protects the beach from larger wave breaks, allowing for calm, safe swimming.

Tucked away in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica, SPA UNO allows your body and mind to be soothed and rejuvenated while warm ocean breezes and monkeys cascade through the rain forest.

Long, carefully thought out, and articulate discussions such as those found on Real Climate, Rabbett Run and Open Mind have allowed me to remain confident in the scientific basis of concerns over global warming and ocean acidification (well sometimes Eli mystifies me).

Some 5C of warming appears to make the Oceans less dense allowing methane calthrates to be released from the Ocean floor en masse.

Some of the elements driving an increase in sea bottom warming and methane release include: — increasingly ice free ocean allowing more waves; — increasing (and increasingly intense?)

Understanding the gradient of the skin SST profile would also allow us to under - stand how greenhouse gases warm the ocean.

That'd be a hint that warm water could indeed get in under the icecap once the edges melt off, unblocking the deep channels and allowing water to circulate in and out from the southern ocean — wouldn't it?

This warming is less than it will ultimately be, because the cool ocean surface holds back the warming — allowing more energy loss out the bottom than will ultimately be the case.

In essence Zhang proposes that the warming factors reduce the growth of sea ice which reduces ocean overturning allowing increased stratification of the ocean which in turn reduces ocean heat flux available to melt ice.

And, although I would love to claim that «ocean» is my real name, the reason I am using a pseudonym is that anonymity allows me more confidence in asking stupid questions because I am still on a learning curve with global warming on other material discussed on RC.

This is a result of a weaker wind - driven ocean circulation, when a large decrease in heat transported to the deep ocean allows the surface ocean to warm quickly, and this in turn raises global surface temperatures.

The news service reports, «Scientists believe climate change — the warming of oceans — has allowed some of the almost 2,000 jellyfish species to expand their ranges, appear earlier in the year and increase overall numbers, much as warming has helped ticks, bark beetles, and other pests to spread to new latitudes.»

The increased area of warm water on the surface allows the tropical Pacific Ocean to discharge more heat than normal into the atmosphere through evaporation.

One could argue that the ocean is warming due to loss of sea ice that allows the ocean to absorb more heat during the summer which carries over into the winter.

if it snows less when oceans are cold and the arctic is closed, that has to allow the sun to warm the earth.

While there are some similarities between the approaches, an important difference is that the slab - ocean approach allows surface and MBL temperatures to adjust to the energetic perturbation: positive energetic forcing of the surface leads to warming, weakens the inversion, and reduces low - cloud cover and liquid water path (LWP).

When the oceans are cold and the Arctic is frozen, it does not snow much and that does allow a decrease in ice albedo and earth does stop cooling and does start warming.

By melting sea ice, warming in the Arctic regions allows more sunlight to be absorbed by the ocean which leads to yet more warming.

This is due to the twin drivers of an increasing land - sea thermal contrast, but more importantly, warming over the Indian Ocean which allows more moisture to be carried to India.

On the other hand, if the ocean is cooler than usual, clear morning skies last later into the day, allowing increased warming.

The measure of «climate» sensitivity by looking at only tropospheric temperature sensitivity might need to be examined a bit, especially, if turned out to be the case (as some research seems to indicate) that CO2 at 400 ppm induces a permanent La Niña state in the Pacific, while still allowing for rapid warming in other parts of the ocean and climate system.

The persistent upwelling of cold water in the eastern tropical Pacific would have reduced cloud cover there, via reduced oceanic evaporation, and thus allowed more of the sun's energy to enter the tropical ocean - this would have aided the ocean warming process, as generally the case when the tropical ocean is cooler - than - normal.

How hurricanes develop also depends on how the local atmosphere responds to changes in local sea surface temperatures, and this atmospheric response depends critically on the cause of the change.23, 24 For example, the atmosphere responds differently when local sea surface temperatures increase due to a local decrease of particulate pollution that allows more sunlight through to warm the ocean, versus when sea surface temperatures increase more uniformly around the world due to increased amounts of human - caused heat - trapping gases.25, 26,27,28