Sentences with phrase «brought warmer ocean currents»

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.

«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.

Not exact matches

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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-?)

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.

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

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.

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.

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.