Sentences with phrase «by ocean currents»

The majority of vent animals release microscopic larvae that are carried by ocean currents.

-LSB-...] This new paper suggests that the increase in atmospheric CO2 may be caused by the ocean currents rather than simply emissions from burning fossil fuels.

Each summer some of it melts or breaks off and is carried away by ocean currents.

They're getting there by ocean currents and air currents.

As changes happen in the polar regions, they are carried around the world by ocean currents, both at the surface and in the deep ocean.

20 out of 54 are being melted by ocean currents.

The temperature differential of water and air is controlled by ocean currents and circulation and wind.

Marine litter can be transported by ocean currents over long distances, and is found in all marine environments, even in remote areas in the open oceans and the deep sea.

Severe sea ice, pushed up against the peninsula by ocean currents and winds, prevented the Palmer from getting within easy helicopter range of Scar Inlet.

Your diving experience will entail diving through arches carved by ocean current flowing south from the coast of Mexico.

Surface heat will radiate downwards and also be moved by ocean currents.

- Areas along the coastlines are influence more by ocean currents that tend to bring greater amounts of precipitation to coastlines.

Air pollution is rarely linked to water pollution, but the strong links will soon be obvious, just as the surface air movement is influenced by the ocean currents and the temperatures of both.

It turns out that the El Niño system was in the negative La Niña mode, which, as the two systems are connected by ocean currents, could have reinforced the NAO (Science, vol 324, p 78).

Such accumulation zones are created when large amounts of floating plastic debris are caught by ocean currents and concentrate in the centre of gyre systems.

The research team — Virginie Sanial, Ken Buesseler, and Matthew Charette of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Seiya Nagao of Kanazawa University — hypothesize that high levels of radioactive cesium - 137 released in 2011 were transported along the coast by ocean currents.

The cold pool is fed by an ocean current, the Equatorial Undercurrent, which flows toward the islands from the west.

Inspired by the ocean currents, this organic cotton duvet cover and sham radiate hues of blue from wide stripes.

Beach Movement A natural phenomenon on North Island, the beaches migrate around the island in a ceaseless seasonal pattern dictated by the ocean currents.

WHOI scientists were involved in the recently reported study of rapid draining of glacier meltwater lakes, but WHOI is also studying the transport of carbon sediments by ocean currents.

Even if there is equal warming in the tropics, but the heat is not dissipated to the poles fast enough by the ocean currents, the area of high SSTs will increase and more heat will dissipated by other means like TC's.

Oscillation is caused by ocean current reversal.

Also described in the post: surface waters with ENSO - induced anomalies in the South Atlantic should be transported northward into the North Atlantic by ocean currents.

Rising surface temperatures in the last three decades of the 20th century were roughly half caused by man - made global warming and half by the ocean currents keeping more heat near the surface, it finds.

Horizontal transfer of this heat energy from the equator to the poles is accomplished by ocean currents.

When the QUEphone is ascending / descending it gets pushed around by the ocean currents so it can't be as accurate for locating the source of seismic events as a moored hydrophone array, which is why it's called Quasi-Eulerian.

Perhaps the ice had been thinned by ocean currents that deliver warm water from below, or by the wind, which could generate open water areas.

Cameron has been studying how and why this energy transport by ocean currents affects the global climate.

Relatively warm salty water is pushed upwards by ocean currents moving over a ridge in the Weddell sea.

Peniche, once an island, in the centuries has been forged as a peninsula by the ocean currents and sand.

The researchers also found that larval behavior enhances the persistence of these network connections, when compared to passive transport by the ocean currents.

Carved by ocean currents and waves for centuries, no other place in Hawaii offers such unique formations.

Although that in itself was initially a mystery, scientists now know these animals release tiny larvae that get carried by ocean currents to different vents, where they settle and form a new colony.

«At the same time, we can't forget that animals in the Arctic are exposed to a number of other environmental pollutants that are carried northward on the wind or by ocean currents.

The BP oil spill is unprecedented in scale in the United States, and recent simulations show that once a spill reaches this size it can be picked up by ocean currents and be dragged far away from the initial spill area.

Polar bears travel south on pack ice, carried by ocean currents.

Also warming should be more pronounced at higher latitudes, but there is no, repeat no, warming in Antarctica except for the peninsula, where the warming is probably caused by ocean currents, not atmospheric CO2.

Variations in SST due to variations in heat transport by ocean currents or diffusion into the thermocline are neglected while contributions by changes in evaporation, turbulent transfer, and surface radiation are estimated as being proportional to the anomalous air - sea temperature difference.

Since cold - water corals do not have symbiotic algae but depend on extracting food particles sinking from surface waters or carried by ocean currents, they are also vulnerable to changes to ocean currents, primary productivity and flux of food particles (Guinotte et al., 2006).