Sentences with phrase «as ocean currents»

This is not perfect because it is likely that climate effects such as ocean currents and oscillations, changes in biology, ice extent and volume changes, cloud cover variations, etc... are causing a kind of climactic Brownian Motion, hiding the signal in what, lacking deep understanding of these issues, we can only call noise.

And there might be drastic changes in the climate of some regions as ocean currents shift.

(The Coriolis effect is due to the Earth's rotation, and causes air and fluid patterns such as ocean currents to deflect to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and deflect to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.)

But the region has a lot of resources that could be used to create clean energy, such as the ocean currents.

So the researchers used monthly data from the satellite mission GRACE, or the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, which measures components in the Earth's mass system such as ocean currents, earthquake - induced changes and melting ice.

As the ocean currents move around this secluded island — cleansing, renewing and purifying the waters — the treatments and specialty therapies at Island Currents Spa will likewise revitalize you.

The researchers paired MIT's global circulation model — which simulates physical phenomena such as ocean currents, temperatures, and salinity — with an ecosystem model that simulates the behavior of 96 species of phytoplankton.

Sea ice and icebergs also melt as ocean currents carry them to warmer places farther from the poles.

He predicts that water off the Oregon shore will peak at around 10 to 20 becquerel per cubic meter of water as ocean currents carry radiation from Japan in the years ahead.

The problem, Crowley said, is that much of the plastic has already broken down in a soupy mix that tends to move around as ocean currents and storms produce swells and wind over the course of a given year.

The agency says it will lease plots of the shelf to developers of wind parks and other renewable energy projects, such as ocean current and wave - harvesting technologies.

There has been an overwhelming popular demand for us to weigh in on recent reports in the Times Britain faces big chill as ocean current slows and CNN Changes in Gulf Stream could chill Europe (note the interesting shift in geographical perspective!).

The earlier attempts (The global cooing scare of the 70s failed) to damage western industrial states failed as temps began rising as the ocean current phases went positive..

Not exact matches

The current Wikipedia entry on air pollution, for example, now asserts that pollution includes: «carbon dioxide (CO2)-- a colorless, odorless, non-toxic greenhouse gas associated with ocean acidification, emitted from sources such as combustion, cement production, and respiration.»

His current work involves writing software to help detect whales in the ocean as part of an effort to make whales more «visible» to humans, partly so that people will be invested in saving whales from boat traffic and other dangers.

But the ocean is a huge, constantly moving three - dimensional ecosystem, and obtaining precise, real - time observations of marine life and of oceanic conditions such as temperature, current and salinity is quite challenging and astronomically expensive.

The causes of the warming remain debated, but Liu and his team homed in on the melting glacial water that poured into oceans as the ice receded, paradoxically slowing the ocean current in the North Atlantic that keeps Europe from freezing over.

Seasonal weather fluctuations also depend on factors such as proximity to oceans or other large bodies of water, currents in those oceans, El Nino / ENSO and other oceanic cycles, and prevailing winds.

It was nearly the same as that of the control population under current ocean conditions.

A system of ocean currents, popularly referred to as the «Great Ocean Conveyor,» brings warm waters to the North Atlaocean currents, popularly referred to as the «Great Ocean Conveyor,» brings warm waters to the North AtlaOcean Conveyor,» brings warm waters to the North Atlantic.

«This partial drowning of the atolls is very interesting as it shows that the combination of rising sea level and ocean current can be detrimental to coral growth.»

A new paper published today in Current Biology presents some of the first evidence that the answer may be yes, but perhaps not the same way as occurs in the ocean.

But current evidence suggests that plastic pollution is as prevalent in land and freshwater ecosystems as it is in the oceans, where it's found «from the equator to the poles,» says Rochman, author of a separate commentary on the state of plastic pollution research published in the April 6 Science.

These revealed a surprising link between stratospheric winds and ocean currents as deep as 2 kilometers beneath the waves.

Further, other poorly observed external factors, such as temperatures, winds, waves and ocean currents, might play an important role in rift growth.

In the presence of mercury, which in this study came from Asia via ocean currents, the decomposition process creates methylmercury, which works its way up the food chain and into predators such as tuna.

Antarctica was also more sensitive to global carbon dioxide levels, Cuffey said, which increased as the global temperature increased because of changing ocean currents that caused upwelling of carbon - dioxide - rich waters from the depths of the ocean.

It also uses a low - resolution ocean model that doesn't include key currents that transfer heat to higher latitudes, such as the Gulf Stream.

Thermohaline circulation, also known as the ocean's conveyor belt, refers to the deep ocean density - driven ocean basin currents.

Sometimes, these threats are exacerbated by natural trends, such as changing ocean currents that help spark harmful algal blooms in waters already loaded with nutrients washed from farm fields.

The cooling episode, known as the Younger Dryas event, was likely linked to currents in the Atlantic Ocean.

As the oceans have warmed and the climate has changed, hotspots are developing in regions where the currents that transport warm tropical waters towards the poles are strengthening.

This altimeter information reveals the location of currents and eddies as well as ocean temperature and other physical characteristics.

Velicogna and her colleagues also measured a dramatic loss of Greenland ice, as much as 38 cubic miles per year between 2002 and 2005 — even more troubling, given that an influx of fresh melt water into the salty North Atlantic could in theory shut off the system of ocean currents that keep Europe relatively warm.

This past June scientists at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi reported that the eyewall's extreme conditions can stir up ocean currents 300 feet below the surface, disrupting sediment and organisms on the seafloor for as long as a week after the storm subsides.

«It will help us to find clearer answers as to whether the Arctic sea ice melts primarily due to higher temperatures or whether the sea ice is shrinking due to changes in wind and ocean currents.»

The Arctic Ocean continually loses thick, old ice, the kind that easily survives a warm summer, as currents sweep it out the Fram Strait, east of Greenland.

But as the two shelves are on opposite sides of the peninsula and subject to different ocean currents, he says, «it was probably due to atmospheric warming».

At the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, just off the coast of Maine, a tidal power system built and operated by the Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) draws energy from currents created as 100 billion tons of water flow into and out of the bay.

World weather patterns will also start to change, as a frigid Antarctic continent and the icy ocean currents that surround it play an important role in global atmospheric and oceanic circulation.

Pushed by the natural motion of wind and ocean currents — often over long distances — the litter is present in oceans worldwide, as well as in sea floor sediment and coastal sands.

Starting from the same kernel of scientific truth as did The Day After Tomorrow — that global warming could disrupt ocean currents in the North Atlantic — a study commissioned by the Pentagon, of all organizations, concluded that the «risk of abrupt climate change... should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a U.S. national security concern.»

Changes in ocean currents, Kennett says, triggered the methane bursts by channeling warmer water over continental slopes, as at Storegga.

Schimdt has found evidence that warm ocean currents and convective forces beneath Europa's frozen shell can cause large blocks of ice to overturn and melt, bringing vast pockets of water, sometimes holding as much liquid as all of the Great Lakes combined, to within several kilometers of the moon's icy surface.

After a brief respite, the Younger Dryas, between 12,800 to 11,500 years ago, froze Europe solid within a matter of months — probably as a result of meltwater from retreating glaciers shutting down the Atlantic Ocean's «conveyor - belt» current, although a cometary impact has also been blamed.

The waters probed during this study, known as the California Current, are a hot spot of ocean acidification because of coastal upwelling, which brings naturally acidic waters to the surface, where they are made even more acidic by greenhouse gas pollution.

It will show Manhattan frozen solid after the warm ocean current known as the Gulf Stream shuts down.

«Our research indicates that as global warming continues, parts of East Antarctica will also be affected by these wind - induced changes in ocean currents and temperatures,» Dr Jourdain said.

The current isn't much (about 30 milliwatts from an electrode the size of a manhole cover), but it flows indefinitely, and for free — ideal, he suggests, for running low - power seafloor devices, such as ocean - monitoring instruments.

These hardy corals — known as coralliths — grow on pebbles or fragments of dead reefs, and they can survive being buffeted by waves and ocean currents.