Sentences with phrase «brought warm currents»

The real cause of Arctic warming is a rearrangement of the North Atlantic current system at the turn of the century that brought warm currents like the Gulf Stream into the Arctic Ocean.

Not exact matches

Ocean currents bringing unusually warm water, for instance, could shift away more from Greenland, or move in closer, he said.

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

But some researchers have argued that the transition from the frigid climatic period known as the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)-- about 20,000 to 25,000 years ago — to the current warm Holocene Epoch brought habitat changes that killed off the mammoths with little or no help from humans.

They found that adding five years of strong trade winds created powerful ocean currents that buried the warm surface water, bringing cooler water to the surface.

New research shows that the current drought plaguing the American West is likely the beginning of a new trend brought on by global warming.

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.

But the prospect of global warming, together with the recent jolt in fuel costs, is bringing industry round to the idea that «we can not continue current levels of dependence on fossil fuels.»

The AMOC currents include the Gulf Stream, which brings shallow warm waters north, nourishing fisheries and warming northwest Europe.

The Gulf Stream, an ocean current that brings warm water from the equator toward the North Atlantic, has been credited with this observed variation in temperature for over a century.

This shift strengthens the ocean currents that bring warm, salty water to the surface, where it accelerates the melting of Antarctic ice.

«In this region, the same [storms] that have driven increased snowfall inland have brought warmer ocean currents into contact with West Antarctic's ice shelves, resulting in rapid thinning,» said Thomas.

Comparing disease statistics with climate data, he found that the outbreaks roughly coincided with El Niño, the warm Pacific Ocean current that brings higher temperatures and rainfall to this part of Peru.

With the removal of the warm surface waters, an upwelling current is created in the east Pacific Ocean, bringing cold water up from deeper levels.

Always brings a smile to my face and warm memories of her home, the food, the discussions of current events around her table.

With the current El Niño weather event expected to continue bringing warm water over the rest of the winter, this slow - motion catastrophe is likely to continue.

The wet season sees the arrival of the Panama Current, which flows down from Central America to bring warmer water and better water clarity, along with sunnier skies.

Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)

In fact, if humanity takes no action and this century will bring a temperature rise of 2 ºC, 3 ºC or even more, the current discussions over whether the 14th Century was a few tenths of a degree warmer or the 17th a few tenths cooler than previously thought will look rather academic.

After all, it is already afloat, a change in currents to bring warm water to the base would start to melt it right away.

The currents flowing across the sill bring warm Atlantic water into the polar sea, and although the net gain each year is tiny, over thousands of years it is enough to make the Arctic Ocean very much warmer.

Water from the melting ice makes the oceans rise, only a fraction of an inch a year but, in the fullness of time, enough to let the currents increase their flow over the northern sill, bringing ever more warm water into the gelid Arctic.

Along the east coast, the warm Agulhas Current brings nutrient - poor, tropical waters southward from the equatorial Indian Ocean.

You can't deduce anything using heat conduction from warm waters above because you'll find it's so tiny that would take ~ 125,000 years to warm / cool the depths to same as surface following a surface MST anomaly if there were no currents bringing cold water through, so obviously the actual warming from waters above is 99 % + by fluid mixing.

El Niño - Pacific Ocean trade winds slow and almost stop which brings warmer conditions and weak upwelling currents to the eastern Pacific which hurts fishing in Peru

They simply could not bring themselves, after the many statements they had made individually prior to their study, in support of Mann and their beliefs about current warming, to say that his paradigm changing study so fundamental to the IPCC, 2001 conclusions was simply WRONG.

Global warming of 2 ℃, the higher of the two Paris targets, would see current record - breaking temperatures become the norm in the future, potentially bringing heatwaves to both land and sea.

When the low shifts as far south as Newfoundland, a high develops over northern Greenland; this brings cold arctic air west from northern Europe to be warmed by the Norwegian Current and thus warm Greenland and North America rather than Europe.

Scientists have been urging the global community to avoid 2 C warming before 2100 (and 1.5 C if at all possible), but the current path brings us to that level of warming in just over 30 - 50 years, not over the 84 years remaining in this century.

During his study, Wallace Broecker discovered that the currents in the Atlantic Ocean sort of work like a conveyor belt, bringing warm water up from the equator and sending cold water down to the equator.

The influx could slow down or shut off the North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) formation, the driving factor behind the conveyor belt current known as thermohaline circulation, which brings large amounts of warm water to the North Atlantic region.

A shallower return current aided by winds then brings warmer and less salty — and thus less dense — water to the Atlantic.

The same storms that brought more snow inland have also brought warmer ocean currents to the ice shelf, which has then thinned rapidly, even as the fresh loose snow has continued to pile onto the impacted ice of previous decades.

Marine West Coast: Warm ocean currents bring mild temperatures and constant rainfall (Seattle, WA).

We know where it starts — in the Arctic Ocean where warm water brought there by currents cools, sinks, and flows south along the bottom until it reaches West Antarctic.

The arctic is mostly ocean covered by ice, so warm water currents could be bringing in heat.

Paleo temperatures from oxygen isotope ratios from the greenland ice cores show that a temperature increase of 0.7 °C will not bring the current temperature up to the level of the Medieval Warm Period let alone the Roman optimum and the MInoan Warm period which were both warmer than the medieval warm perWarm Period let alone the Roman optimum and the MInoan Warm period which were both warmer than the medieval warm perWarm period which were both warmer than the medieval warm perwarm period.

Why not just say there is no current evidence supporting tying climate change / global warming to trends in weather events and that no one knows what the future will bring.