Sentences with phrase «because warm sea»

Oskarshamn, part of Germany's E.ON and Forsmark, operated by Swedish utility Vattenfall have both cut output because warm sea water temperatures are limiting their ability to cool down.

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Coral reefs are dying: We've already lost half the world's coral because of human activity like dredging the sea floor, pollution, and emitting greenhouse gases that warm ocean waters and make them more acidic.

The issue adds to a growing list of aviation - related problems because of global warming, including increased turbulence, stronger headwinds and swamped airport runways due to rising sea levels, he said.

The inundation came because the Bay of Bengal was some inches higher than normal (as climate changes, sea level rises because warm water takes up more space).

Because the martian air pressure is very low — 100 times lower than at sea level on Earth — ice on Mars does not melt and become liquid when it warms up.

The finding surprised the University of Arizona - led research team, because the sparse instrumental records for sea surface temperature for that part of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean did not show warming.

And because clouds reflect sunlight, cloud dissipation causes more sunlight to transfer to the ground and seas, ultimately resulting in warmer ground and air temperatures.

As the Arctic summers are getting warmer we may see an acceleration of global warming, because reduced sea ice in the Arctic will remove less CO2 from the atmosphere, Danish scientists report.

«We expected the storm would definitely get stronger because of much warmer sea surface temperature,» Lau said.

Rising sea levels are certain in a warming world, but there is still substantial uncertainty about the extent of the increase in this century, mainly because the dynamics that could erode the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica remain poorly understood.

TURTLE TROUBLE Green sea turtle populations in parts of the Great Barrier Reef are becoming increasingly female because their eggs are being incubated at higher temperatures due to warming ocean waters.

Even die - hard Alaskan antienvironmentalists have begun to warm up to the idea of imposing limits on greenhouse - gas emissions, according to The Wall Street Journal, because homes on the coast there are already beginning to slip into rising seas.

It takes a long time for the ocean to respond to increasing heat, so even if greenhouse gas emissions dropped to zero tomorrow, the world's seas would continue to rise for centuries because of the warming that's already happened.

Although the disappearance of the ice around Antarctica will have only a marginal effect on sea levels, it is important because it was predicted to be one of the first signs of global warming.

Because water expands as it warms, that heat also meant that sea surface heights were record high, measuring about 2.75 inches higher than at the beginning of the satellite altimeter record in 1993.

But because the surrounding ocean would have been warmer, and stabilizing sea ice less abundant, the massive East Antarctic ice sheet may have contributed to higher sea levels by flowing more quickly towards the ocean.

So when algal populations explode, say, because of warming water, domoic acid concentrations increase in these animals to a point that they affect the sea lions that feast on them.

Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

The subsidence means these areas are sinking even faster than sea level is rising because of global warming: currently 3 mm per year and accelerating.

Sea ice is more susceptible to global warming than continental ice because it is much thinner than continental ice.

«Our study is important because tropical cyclone intensity forecasts for several past hurricanes over the Caribbean Sea have under - predicted rapid intensification events over warm oceanic features,» said Johna Rudzin, a PhD student at the UM Rosenstiel School and lead author of the study.

The study stops short of attributing California's latest drought to changes in Arctic sea ice, partly because there are other phenomena that play a role, like warm sea surface temperatures and changes to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, an atmospheric climate pattern that typically shifts every 20 to 30 years.

Warmer temperatures make it easier for the whales to hunt because their prey is less likely to climb onto sea ice or hide below it to escape.

The updated model predicted sea - surface warming of up to two degrees Celsius because of light absorption.

Because existing phenomena — such as thermal expansion of water from warming — do not fully explain the corrected sea - level - rise number of 3.3 millimeters, stored heat in the deep ocean may be making a significant contribution, Cazenave said.

There was a warm, stable climate with dispersed continents surounded by vast warm and shallow seas over continental shelves that provided light, oxygen, and nutrients for life to thrive in, because intense mountain - building also increased erosion and the discharge of eroded nutrients into those seas.

Because of the warming, «there are some potentially catastrophic events that must be considered,» including sea level rise from melting polar ice sheets, according to the document.

Despite consistently warm waters, tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea typically don't reach the higher end of the hurricane scale because winds in the upper atmosphere tend to cut them off.

The problem arises because most of this sea ice will melt in future global warming scenarios and the warming signal will be taken as the difference between the control [which perhaps has too much sea - ice] and the sea - ice free future.

«You can totally turn off ocean circulation, have Arctic sea ice advance all the way across the North Atlantic, and you still will have a warmer climate during the Younger Dryas than the Oldest Dryas because of the carbon dioxide,» Carlson says.

[SLIDE 17] And so not surprisingly sea level is rising as a result not only of the loss of mountain glaciers and the great land ice sheets — losses from the great land ice sheets; but also thermal expansion of sea water because the ocean is getting warmer.

Research from the same group also suggests that landfalling typhoons are intensifying more than those that stay out at sea, likely because of warmer coastal waters that help them ramp up in strength.

It is of interest to scientists because it is changing rapidly; it is thinning, accelerating and receding3, all of which contribute directly to sea level, and its future under a warming climate is uncertain.

These oceans can be kept warm despite their great distance from the Sun because of gravitational interactions between the moons and their host planet, and they might support the kind of life found in deep sea vents on Earth.

«As the seas warm because of our effect on the climate, bleaching events in the Great Barrier Reef and other areas within the Coral Sea are likely to become more frequent and more devastating,» the team of Australian university scientists wrote Thursday in The Conversation, announcing the results of the analysis.

Ocean heating accounts for about 40 percent of global sea level rise, because water expands as it warms up; global average sea level from January through November was also a record high, the WMO said.

That marine heat is helping to power storms and, because warmer water expands and can melt ice, it's raising sea levels, which worsens flooding caused by storm surges.

That's simply because in climate history, warm climate means small ice sheets, cold climate comes with big ice sheets, and sea level has changed accordingly.

Because they depend on sea ice to hunt seals, the polar bear is considered threatened as global warming melts and thins ice in this region.

But it's concerning, because similar sea surface warming is now well underway as greenhouse gas pollution heats up the globe.

Sea salt is a great anti-inflammatory, and when dissolved in warm water, it can be a fantastic easy way to ease a sore throat because of its ability to loosen mucus and rid the throat of bacteria and other irritants.

Many people THINK THE BEST TIME OF YEAR TO VISIT IS winter, BECAUSE the weather is warm with clear blue skies giving you the energy to do so many things — but my personal favourite is the very hot summers that we have, cooled by a gentle sea breeze.

Whales migrate to Cabo not just for the warm water, but also because of the high salt content in the Sea of Cortez, which acts like a pain reliever for mothers giving birth.

I THINK THE BEST TIME OF YEAR TO VISIT IS any time other than mid summer because the humidity has gone but the sea is still warm and beautifully clean and clear.

This is because the Pacific Ocean only approaches the 70 °F degree mark in the warmest parts of summer, while less than 100 miles away, the Sea of Cortez can be in excess of 90 °F.

Because of the island's warm climate year - round, the average sea temperature for the waters surrounding Tenerife is a mild 20 °C in May.

Because of Lanzarote's year - round warm temperatures, the average sea temperature for the waters around the island is also mild throughout the year, especially in June when it's 21 °C.

In the Japanese sea side, big snow storm attacked many places, as Japanese weather forecast explaned that why these kind weather attacked Japanese, because the warm and cold flow came to Japan rotation.

The scariest parts of the Siberian margin are the shallow parts, because this is where methane bubbles from the sea floor might reach the surface, and this is where the warming trend is observed most strongly.

Alarmists have claimed for years that sea level, because of anthropogenic warming, is rising, with ominous consequences.