Sentences with phrase «carried by ocean currents»

It's all so complicated but I think there is a fine balance between how much heat is carried by atmospheric currents and how much is carried by ocean currents and that maybe it doesn't take much to change the proportion of which one dominates.

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

Some of the warm water would be subducted by Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation / Thermohaline Circulation, some would be carried by ocean currents into the Arctic Ocean where it would melt sea ice, and the remainder would be spun southward by the North Atlantic gyre toward the tropics so it could be warmed more by the effects of the slower - than - normal trade winds.

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.

Not exact matches

A key Atlantic Ocean current that carries warmth into the higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere has slowed down by 15 % since the mid-20th century and hit a «new record...

«Normally at the ocean floor, at 700 meters depth, what you're accumulating is very fine material» — dust or silt small enough that it could be carried by currents or winds far from land without settling out.

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

We know electric fields can be used to push the microrobots in any direction, like a boat carried by the ocean's currents, but in this paper we're exploring how those same fields can be used to help the robot detect obstacles and navigate around them,» Kim said.

In order to get to those nursery habitats, the larvae have to be carried by seasonal ocean currents.

The increased wave action reaches down and stirs up sediments on shallow continental shelves, releasing radium and other chemicals that are carried up to the surface and swept away into the open ocean by currents such as the Transpolar Drift.

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.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

Balance time for those surface layers is short, but for the deep ocean, CO2 doesn't diffuse but is gradually carried there by slow moving ocean currents, these may take on the order of a thousand years to complete.

«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.

It is possible the Arctic ice melt could also be related to ocean currents carrying highly saline water caused by the recent increased SSTs in the temperate oceans between 1985 and 2005 to the region.

The explanation of the that «incongruous» sea ice decline is very simple: Arctic warming is not caused by an imaginary AGW but by warm Gulf Stream water carried into the Arctic Ocean by North Atlantic currents.

The present state of the Arctic is not caused by any global warming but is the consequence of North Atlantic currents carrying warm Gulf Stream water into the Arctic Ocean.

Relatively clear skies in the central and eastern tropical Pacific [during a La Niña] allow solar radiation to enter the ocean, apparently offsetting the below normal SSTs, but the heat is carried away by Ekman drift, ocean currents, and adjustments through ocean Rossby and Kelvin waves, and the heat is stored in the western Pacific tropics.

When oceans are carrying heat deeper below the surface, then the atmospheric heat is removed by transference processes of wind, current and radiative transfer.

Ocean currents, however, are described by the direction that the current would carry a ship toward.

«The top of the glacier is melting away as a result of decades of steadily increasing air temperatures, while its underside is compromised by currents carrying warmer ocean water, and the glacier is now breaking away into bits and pieces and retreating into deeper ground.»

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