Sentences with phrase «by oceanic water»

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Funded by the National Science Foundation, Ridge 2000 is «an interdisciplinary initiative to study the Earth's oceanic spreading ridge system as an integrated whole, from its inception in the mantle to its manifestations in the biosphere and water column.»

The Malaspina Expedition, led by the Spanish National Research Council, has demonstrated that there are five large accumulations of plastic debris in the open ocean that match with the five major twists of oceanic surface water circulation.

Thousands of studies conducted by researchers around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric, and oceanic temperatures; melting glaciers; diminishing snow cover; shrinking sea ice; rising sea levels; ocean acidification; and increasing atmospheric water vapor.

Basically, although the gas is indeed easily absorbed by sea - water, it is the timescales that matter: mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters takes place over hundreds to thousands of years but sea - water can de-gas parts of its carbon dioxide payload over much, much shorter periods.

Turneffe Island is located 20 Miles east of Belize City, Belize and is surrounded by deep oceanic waters.

The TAO project allows scientists to monitor warm water volume which tends to lead oceanic Niño indices by around 7 months, however...

Thus, if the absorption of the infrared emission from atmospheric greenhouse gases reduces the gradient through the skin layer, the flow of heat from the ocean beneath will be reduced, leaving more of the heat introduced into the bulk of the upper oceanic layer by the absorption of sunlight to remain there to increase water temperature.

Other global issues, such as climate change, oceanic acidification, water shortages, etc. can be shown to derive from or be exacerbated by these four.

Changes in oceanic circulation in the North Atlantic have influence on a planetary level by affecting, in particular, the water cycle.

Focusing on the Permian - Triassic boundary, Gregory Ryskin [1] explores the possibility that mass extinction can be caused by an extremely fast, explosive release of dissolved methane (and other dissolved gases such as carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide) that accumulated in the oceanic water masses prone to stagnation and anoxia (e.g., in silled basins).

It is wholly swamped by the far more powerful oceanic Hot Water Bottle Effect.

Water temperature, «sea roughness», the changing patterns of oceanic circulation, and the use of carbon by marine creatures - all of these factors play up against one another.

That property of water could be enough to enable the weather processes overall to stabilise the whole process and is one of the reasons why oceanic temperature is, always has been and always will be the primary atmospheric temperature driver and will always reduce or possibly neutralise any effect of an enhanced greenhouse effect in the absence of really huge changes caused by astronomic or geological processes.

There is absolutely no reason to believe that this effect will do anything but get stronger from here on as the vast «crops» of oceanic bacteria adapt to both warmer ocean waters and increased CO2 and nutrient levels and simply increasingly cool the global atmospheric climate simply by «growing faster»!

The other point about volcanic emissions: the majority of the activity is in the oceanic spreading zones, which release carbon into the water, but because it is absorbed by the water, the gas isn't released for some time, sometimes up to 1000 years.

Its cause was oceanic — warm water carried across the Pacific by the super El Nino.

Causality is always tricky to assign in cases such as this one, since it's entirely possible that the ridging itself has led to warm surface water though decreased oceanic mixing by wind and unusually high air temperatures.

True biotope entirely recyclable, this floating Ecopolis tends thus towards the positive eco-accountancy of the building in the oceanic ecosystems by producing and softening itself the oxygen and the electricity, by recycling the CO2 and the waste, by purifying and softening biologically the used waters and by integrating ecological niches, aquaculture fields and biotic corridors on and under its body to meet its own food needs.

All those effects (GHGs, solar and oceanic) operate by changing the speed of the water cycle which speed responds instantly to changes in the atmospheric heights.

As Arctic Ice decreases it exposes more warm water from the tropics carried up by the oceanic conveyor belt.

Thousands of studies conducted by researchers around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric, and oceanic temperatures; melting glaciers; diminishing snow cover; shrinking sea ice; rising sea levels; ocean acidification; and increasing atmospheric water vapor.

Basically, although the gas is indeed easily absorbed by sea - water, it is the timescales that matter: mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters takes place over hundreds to thousands of years but sea - water can de-gas parts of its carbon dioxide payload over much, much shorter periods.