Sentences with phrase «by ocean warming»

Compo and Sardeshmukh (2009) argue, based on model simulation with prescribed historical SSTs, that most of the continental warming is caused by the ocean warming and not by the local response the radiative forcings.»

Sea level rise is driven primarily by ocean warming with very little ice loss.

In northern latitudes during winter areas like Europe would much more affected by ocean warming - one would tropical like conditions during the winter in regions currently strongly affected by warmth of gulf stream - though the flow of gulf stream would greatly diminished, the ocean temperature would be significantly increased.

In the non-stationary environment caused by ocean warming, traditional approaches, which are solely based on analysing historical data, increasingly fail to estimate today's hazard probabilities.

Vital marine ecosystems are threatened by ocean warming and acidification, yet get a tiny fraction of climate finance, E3G research shows

Atmospheric warming is followed by ocean warming is followed by a melting of polar ice sheets is followed by sea level rise.

«Combining the threat from human hunting and fishing activities with the stresses imposed by ocean warming, acidification, and de-oxygenation is likely to compound the stresses imposed by hunting and fishing activities in the future.»

Not exact matches

Experts say the bleaching has been triggered by global warming and El Nino, a warming of parts of the Pacific Ocean that changes weather worldwide.

Blessed with warm sunny weather all year round (roughly 300 days of sunshine a year), ringed by the Atlantic Ocean on one side and protected on the other by the calm, deep - blue waters of the Tagus River (the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula), this traditionally sophisticated city seems to have it all.

According to a big chunk of ocean surface temperature recorded by boat, the oceans were not warming nearly as quickly as the rest of the planet.

If the rising ocean levels caused by global warming force us to build dikes and relocate people away from delta regions, that, too will add to what we measure as Gross Domestic Product.

Great flood: the filly of a large basin by raising oceans during the warming period after the last ice age.

Science questions the answers, e.g. hurricanes are caused by warm moist ocean air being drawn up into the cooler atmosphere and creating a wind pattern though we are still open to consider other factors that may have influence on this cycle.

The Mediterranean - like climate is marked by long, warm days moderated by the ocean breeze that blows through the mountain range, creating cool nights.

The quality of our Temecula Valley wines is made possible by a unique microclimate that features morning mist, warm midday sun, cooling ocean breezes and clear starry nights.

Last month, the marine animal showcase by the lake introduced Stingray Touch, a place for warm - weather visitors to pet de-barbed, ocean - going bottom - feeders in an outdoor pool.

The floods have been triggered by the weather event known as El Nino, a warming of surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean that wreaks havoc on weather patterns every few years.

Warm and Well Cornwall is led by the Winter Wellbeing Partnership on behalf of Cornwall Council and funded by the Warm Homes Fund (National Grid / Affordable Warmth Solutions), and social housing providers Ocean, Coastline, Cornwall Housing, Guinness and DCH.

«The widespread loss of Antarctic ice shelves, driven by a warming ocean or warming atmosphere, could spell disaster for our coastlines — and there is sound geological evidence that supports what the models are telling us,» said Robert M. DeConto of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a co-author of the study and one of the developers of the ice - sheet model used.

The warming also indicates that a large amount of heat is being taken up by the ocean, demonstrating that the planet's energy budget has been pushed out of balance.

The simulations also suggest that the removal of excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by natural processes on land and in the ocean will become less efficient as the planet warms.

Gerald Meehl, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research who was also an author on the paper, said this research expanded on past work, including his own research, that pointed to the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation as a factor in a warming slowdown by finding a mechanism behind how the Pacific Ocean was able to store enough heat to produce a pause in surface warming.

The paper notes that ocean warming around Greenland may be almost double the global mean by 2100.

Co-author Dr Gerhard Kuhn, from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany, says: «Our results provide evidence that in the past WAIS retreat was also predominantly caused by melting through warm ocean water.

This pattern is consistent with greenhouse gas — induced warming by the overlying atmosphere: the ocean warms more slowly because of its large thermal inertia.

Scientists can measure how much energy greenhouse gases now add (roughly three watts per square meter), but what eludes precise definition is how much other factors — the response of clouds to warming, the cooling role of aerosols, the heat and gas absorbed by oceans, human transformation of the landscape, even the natural variability of solar strength — diminish or strengthen that effect.

Driven by stronger winds resulting from climate change, ocean waters in the Southern Ocean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of theocean waters in the Southern Ocean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of theOcean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of the ice.

For each degree of ocean warming, oxygen concentration goes down by 2 percent.

Global warming could seriously mess with fisheries in a few ways: Carbon dioxide in the air contributes to ocean acidification, sea level rise could change the dynamics of fisheries, and cold water fish like salmon could be pushed out by warming streams.

Some engineers have even proposed dumping iron into the ocean to trigger phytoplankton blooms — a strategy that they speculate will slow global warming by removing carbon from the atmosphere (SN: 6/5/10, p. 16).

A new study led by the University of Maryland's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) suggests that a warmer Atlantic Ocean could substantially boost the destructive power of a future superstorm like Sandy.

Scientific observations show that in the Arctic, warming temperatures have led to a 75 % loss in sea ice volume since the 1980s, and recent reports suggest the Arctic Ocean will be nearly free of summer sea ice by 2050, said Sullivan.

Still, there are definitely mechanisms by which this rift could be linked to climate change, most notably through warmer ocean waters eating away at the base of the shelf.»

Models used to project conditions on an Earth warmed by climate change especially need to consider how the ocean will move excess heat around, Legg said.

Warm ocean waters, driven inland by winds, are undercutting an ice shelf that holds back a vast glacier from sliding into the ocean, researchers report November 1 in Science Advances.

What happens when the world moves into a warm, interglacial period isn't certain, but in 2009, a paper published in Science by researchers found that upwelling in the Southern Ocean increased as the last ice age waned, correlated to a rapid rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

In one study published in Geophysical Research Letters in 2007, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, estimated the mass redistribution resulting from ocean warming would shorten the day by 120 microseconds, or nearly one tenth of a millisecond, over the next two centuries.

Lead author, Dr Huw Griffiths from BAS says: «While a few species might thrive at least during the early decades of warming, the future for a whole range of invertebrates from starfish to corals is bleak, and there's nowhere to swim to, nowhere to hide when you're sitting on the bottom of the world's coldest and most southerly ocean and it's getting warmer by the decade.»

It is possible, he adds, that these persistent high - pressure zones may be produced by two well - known oceanographic patterns: La Nina and El Nino in the Pacific Ocean (which mark alterations in warmer and cooler conditions between that ocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the AzoOcean (which mark alterations in warmer and cooler conditions between that ocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the Azoocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the Azores).

Ocean warming is exacerbating flooding caused by the melting of glaciers and other ice.

Now research shows that ocean warming could be worsening the situation, by causing wild swings in the fish's food supply.

According to the new findings, Earth may be able to significantly reduce global warming by releasing some of the heat through a «vent» in the cloud cover over the Pacific Ocean.

Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corals.

Since the end of last El Niño warming event of 1997 to 1998, the tropical Pacific Ocean has been in a relatively cool phase — strong enough to offset the warming created by greenhouse gas emissions.

Southern Ocean seafloor water temperatures are projected to warm by an average of 0.4 °C over this century with some areas possibly increasing by as much as 2 °C.

They must also deal with a host of challenges tied directly to the environment and potentially amplified by climate change, including warming waters, increasing ocean acidity and the spread of diseases that can decimate shellfish stocks.

This newest threat follows on the heels of overfishing, sediment deposition, nitrate pollution in some areas, coral bleaching caused by global warming, and increasing ocean acidity caused by carbon emissions.

His discoveries have also revealed how warming ocean temperatures and acidification of ocean water caused by climate change lead to coral bleaching and death.

In hot water Coral reefs have been besieged in recent decades by everything from warming waters to ocean acidification, disease, overfishing and pollution.

The opposite occurred in 1997 and 1998, when warm surface waters in the Pacific Ocean brought about by El Niño pushed rainfall systems north, leaving parts of the southern and eastern Amazon forest dry and prone to fires.