Soundbite version: «Global warming is expected to increase sea surface temperatures, create a thicker and warmer ocean surface layer, and increase the moisture in
the atmosphere over the oceans — all conditions that should lead to a general increase in hurricane intensity and maybe frequency.»
«The real question is,» Caldeira said, «can
the atmosphere over the ocean move more energy downward than the atmosphere over land is able to?»
Greenhouse warming isn't thottled by IR absortive gases in
the atmosphere over the ocean.
(A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water vapor than cold,
the atmosphere over the oceans is a shocking five percent wetter, loading the dice for devastating floods.)
Not exact matches
A series of Cataclysmic events will take place, to mention a few, earthquakes, Yellowstone, the coming California earthquake August 9, 2011, the earth wobble, the volcanic eruptions, the
oceans rising, the earth splinting open spilling lava all
over, the
atmosphere will be consumed killing all living things.
«THE END OF DAYS is near» January 1213 the earth will wobble causing earthquakes, lava will spill all
over the earth the
oceans will rise changing the topography, the
atmosphere will be consumed, our planet will die and orbit just like our mom, a gusted, dust, desolate planet.
But
over the last 20 years or so we've realized that that was quite wrong, and that large - scale
ocean and
atmosphere patterns are significantly more powerful in terms of shaping where the rains fall.»
Where the
atmosphere has few aerosol particles —
over the
ocean, for instance — water molecules have fewer particles to condense around, so cloud droplets are large.
After two years of spiralling closer and closer to Earth, the Chinese space station Tiangong - 1 has come crashing through the
atmosphere over the Pacific
Ocean
«This highly unusual state of the
atmosphere has been linked to record low sea ice cover during summer
over the Arctic
Ocean.
The ash was deposited on the seafloor after being blown through plumes that rose miles into the
atmosphere and drifted
over the
ocean.
Over the last 50 years, we've thought the
oceans and
atmosphere are big enough that we don't need any rules.
As a result — and for reasons that remain unexplained — the waters of the Southern
Ocean may have begun to release carbon dioxide, enough to raise concentrations in the
atmosphere by more than 100 parts per million
over millennia — roughly equivalent to the rise in the last 200 years.
«While advances in science and technology and improved safety practices have significantly reduced the threat of oil spills in Canadian waters
over the past few decades, much about the fate, environmental impacts and remediation of oil spills remain poorly understood,» said Kenneth Lee, the director of
Oceans and
Atmosphere, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Perth, Western Australia and chair of the seven - member panel.
So they created a set of global climate models to analyze the
ocean and
atmosphere over a 40 - year period, keeping carbon dioxide levels fixed.
When carbon dioxide, CO2, from the
atmosphere is absorbed by the
ocean, it forms carbonic acid (the same thing that makes soda fizz), making the
ocean more acidic and decreasing the
ocean's pH. This increase in acidity makes it more difficult for many marine organisms to grow their shells and skeletons, and threatens coral reefs the world
over.
Over the last few centuries, the
ocean has absorbed huge amounts of the carbon dioxide spewed into the
atmosphere by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels.
Analysis of the inclusions also suggests that the way that carbon is exchanged and deposited between the
atmosphere, biosphere,
oceans and geosphere may have changed significantly
over the past 2.5 billion years.
«This means clumps of atoms surrounded by a bath at some temperature, like the
atmosphere or the
ocean, should tend
over time to arrange themselves to resonate better and better with the sources of mechanical, electromagnetic or chemical work in their environments,» England explained.
At least
over the
oceans, the pre-industrial cloud conditions would have been considerably different from those of today; this implies that the aerosols we have been adding to the
atmosphere may have had a significant effect on global patterns of cloud formation and rain.
In an email to his staff last week, Larry Marshall, chief executive of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Canberra, «stated that up to 350 jobs could be eliminated
over the next 2 years, including 110 positions in the
Oceans and
Atmosphere division, the bulwark of CSIRO's climate research,» Leigh Dayton reported in this week's issue of Science.
A study examined three different factors: warmer - than - usual surface
atmosphere conditions (related to global warming); sea - ice thinning prior to the melting season (also related to global warming); and an August storm that passed
over the Arctic, stirring up the
ocean, fracturing the sea ice and sending it southward to warmer climes.
Compared to seasonal norms, the coldest place in Earth's
atmosphere in May was
over the northern Pacific
Ocean, where temperatures were as much as 2.08 C (about 3.74 degrees Fahrenheit) cooler than seasonal norms.
Understanding how carbon flows between land, air and water is key to predicting how much greenhouse gas emissions the earth,
atmosphere and
ocean can tolerate
over a given time period to keep global warming and climate change at thresholds considered tolerable.
The soot from these fires and from automobiles and buses in the ever more crowded cities rises into the
atmosphere and drifts out
over the Indian
Ocean, changing the atmospheric dynamics upon which the monsoons depend.
Burning red - hot from its passage through the
atmosphere and trailing streaks of vapour, the meteor train moved south - east, passing just a few kilometres north of New York and then out
over the Atlantic
Ocean.
With the
ocean absorbing more carbon dioxide (CO2)
over the past decade, less of the greenhouse gas is reaching the Earth's
atmosphere.
«If all of the Earth's water is on the surface, that gives us one interpretation of the water cycle, where we can think of water cycling from
oceans into the
atmosphere and into the groundwater
over millions of years,» she said.
The effect was easier to see
over water than land because, in general, the
atmosphere above the
oceans is relatively low in aerosols — tiny liquid or solid particles that float in the air.
«Constant assault» anticipated Rubio will chair the
oceans,
atmosphere and fisheries subcommittee that has jurisdiction
over the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-- the agency that focuses on the health of the
oceans and
atmosphere.
In situations where objects enter Earth's
atmosphere in more remote locations —
over the
ocean far from land, for example — satellites may be the only sources of data that could be used to determine an object's orbit.
Strengthening ENSO
over the current interglacial period, caused by increasing positive
ocean -
atmosphere feedbacks
Pete Best writes: > It seems that the
oceans have absorbed much heat >
over the summer but have relased it into the >
atmosphere which has caused the
ocean to freeze > quickly and oddly
the Arctic has shown a pattern of strong low - level atmospheric warming
over the Arctic
Ocean in autumn because of heat loss from the ocean back to the atmospher
Ocean in autumn because of heat loss from the
ocean back to the atmospher
ocean back to the
atmosphere....
It seems that the
oceans have absorbed much heat
over the summer but have relased it into the
atmosphere which has caused the
ocean to freeze quickly and oddly even though the
atmosphere is warmer than usual.
The observed fact that temperatures increases slower
over the
oceans than
over land demonstrates that the large heat capacity of the
ocean tries to hold back the warming of the air
over the
ocean and produces a delay at the surface but nevertheless the
atmosphere responds quit rapidly to increasing greenhouse gases.
Severinghaus discovered that xenon and krypton are well preserved in ice cores, which provides the temperature information that can then be used by scientists studying many other aspects of the earth's
oceans and
atmosphere over hundreds of thousands of years.
Ocean scientists plan to maintain their observations over months and years to study how the Earth, ocean, and atmosphere evolve and inte
Ocean scientists plan to maintain their observations
over months and years to study how the Earth,
ocean, and atmosphere evolve and inte
ocean, and
atmosphere evolve and interact.
The decrease
over the last 20 years is well substantiated by observation and is indistinguishable from the calculated decline assuming that the surface
ocean is in near thermodynamic equilibrium with increasing CO2 concentration of the
atmosphere.
Human sources of radiation released into the
atmosphere over the past 60 years, although serious, pale in comparison to the radionuclides already naturally present in the
ocean.
The warmer
ocean waters mean more moisture in the
atmosphere for the storm to suck up; the cold air
over the continent ensures that moisture falls as snow.
The carbon cycle defines the fate of CO2 injected into the air by fossil fuel burning [1], [168] as the additional CO2 distributes itself
over time among surface carbon reservoirs: the
atmosphere,
ocean, soil, and biosphere.
Reducing the heat lost to the
atmosphere allows the
oceans to steadily warm
over time - as has been observed
over the last half century.
The worse news is that it's immensely wasteful; it can take up to three litres of water to make just one litre of bottled, and of the thousands of empty plastic bottles produced,
over 60 per cent of them end up in landfills or
oceans, polluting the
atmosphere and poisoning wildlife.
They are known for the
atmosphere they create, from a great selection of games and eating together, to campfires, releasing Chinese lanterns
over the
ocean and swimming with the bio-plankton at night.
When Santa Ana conditions prevail, with winds in the lower two to three kilometers (1.25 - 1.8 miles) of the
atmosphere from the north through east, the air
over the coastal basin is extremely dry, and this dry air extends out
over offshore waters of the Pacific
Ocean.
The high characteristic roof construction and the huge window frame with a view
over the park / through to the
ocean determine the
atmosphere of the Top Room (42 m2).
Each room and villa offers peaceful
atmosphere and the spectacular view
over the Indian
Ocean.
They need to know: what a GHG is and how the GHE works; the carbon cycle; how climate has changed
over the entire geologic history of the planet; how the climate has changed recently (relatively speaking); the main variables of climate like temperature, rainfall, etc.; the role of the sun,
atmosphere and
oceans on climate.
In addition, since the global surface temperature records are a measure that responds to albedo changes (volcanic aerosols, cloud cover, land use, snow and ice cover) solar output, and differences in partition of various forcings into the
oceans /
atmosphere / land / cryosphere, teasing out just the effect of CO2 + water vapor
over the short term is difficult to impossible.