Sentences with phrase «allows warm ocean water»

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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...

«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.

«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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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).

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.

Use of this type of modeling allows for better understanding of the effects of OTEC deployment in global phenomena (changes in water temperature and its effect on atmosphere - ocean interaction or global warming, to name some).

That unusual extreme warming is called Arctic Amplification that CO2 driven models suggest is the result of absorbing more heat because lost sea ice allows darker ocean waters to absorb more heat.

This circumpolar deep water, which is relatively warm and salty compared to other parts of the Southern Ocean, has warmed and shoaled in recent decades, and can melt ice at the base of glaciers which reduces friction and allows them to flow more freely.

That open ocean allows fewer thick chunks of ice from near the North Pole and more warm water from the south to accumulate along the Russian coast, causing the summer season of ice - free waterways to be longer in Russia than it is in Canada and Alaska.

Before 2006, our warm salt subduction mechanism does not allow the Atlantic to cool when its subpolar salinity was increasing, because poleward transport of warm salty water and increasing subpolar subduction are parts of the same mechanism of enhanced AMOC upper - ocean transport.

These areas of open water influence: (1) the land by allowing more ocean waves and more coastal erosion, (2) Greenland outlet glaciers by exposing the glacier fronts to warmer ocean waters, and (3) the atmosphere by providing a source of heat and moisture during autumn.

He also said the ongoing strong El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean may have influenced the storm track of this storm as well as the extra heat present in the Atlantic, since the Atlantic tends to have less active hurricane seasons and winter storm seasons during El Niños, allowing warm water anomalies to persist.

The oceans and seas absorb the heat from the atmosphere and redistribute it through the means of water currents, and atmospheric processes, such as evaporation and the reflection of light allow for the cooling and warming of the overlying atmosphere.

This warms the surface and eventually allows more heat to ocean waters below, in effect melting sea ice from the top and bottom.

And over on the Atlantic flank of the Arctic, another recent report concludes that the Arctic Ocean's cold layering system that blocks Atlantic inflows is breaking down, allowing a deluge of warmer, denser water to flood into the Arctic Basin.