Sentences with phrase «called global circulation»

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During what are called Heinrich events — natural but still largely unexplained fluctuations in the global climate — the Atlantic Ocean's circulation slows substantially.

At a global scale, the increased melting of the ice sheet contributes to rising sea level and may impact global ocean circulation patterns through the so - called «thermohaline circulation'that sustains among others, the Gulf Stream, which keeps Europe warm.

The principal engine of this global circulation, often called the Ocean Conveyor, is the difference in salt content between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

What you call an «ocean pump» is not in fact a pump, but is a current that is part of what some call the global thermohaline circulation.

In context of the criticism of your paper, and of the problems and failures in global circulation models (now being called global climate models by the way!)

Motivated by findings that major components of so - called cloud «feedbacks» are best understood as rapid responses to CO2 forcing (Gregory and Webb in J Clim 21:58 — 71, 2008), the top of atmosphere (TOA) radiative effects from forcing, and the subsequent responses to global surface temperature changes from all «atmospheric feedbacks» (water vapour, lapse rate, surface albedo, «surface temperature» and cloud) are examined in detail in a General Circulation Model.

The closing of the Central American Seaway intensified the Gulf Stream, the upper limb of a conveyor - like global ocean circulation called the Ocean Conveyor.

That global warm spell, called the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period, may also have been related to the closing of the Central American Seaway and the consequent rearrangement of global ocean circulation.

The principal engine of this global circulation, often called the Ocean Conveyor, is the difference in salt content between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.