Sentences with phrase «causes sea surface»

A weakening of the trade winds causes sea surface temperatures to warm, which increases convection, which causes more cloud cover.

Global warming also causes sea surface temperatures to rise, precipitation patterns to change, etc..

This also causes sea surface temperatures to rise.

El Niño is a natural phenomenon occuring every five years or so that causes sea surface temperatures to rise in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

Lamont's Ryan Abernathey and Richard Seager are studying how changes in the ocean cause sea surface temperature to vary, and how these anomalies drive changes in atmospheric circulation to create extreme weather events.

Not exact matches

The equatorial sea surface temperatures will continue to slowly increase causing the development of El Niño conditions in the east equatorial Pacific.

Proponents claim the dispersants did help dissipate oil slicks on the sea surface, causing less oil to taint shoreline beaches and marshes.

One of the subtle changes visible in the new data - set is how the Amazon's greenness corresponds to one of the long - known causes of rainfall or drought to the Amazon basin: changes in sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean, called the El Nino Southern Oscillation.

As for the increase in phosphorus content, it was caused by the phosphorus that in the summer of 2014 flowed in from the deep waters in the north of the Baltic Sea main basin and the phosphorus that was released from the Gulf of Finland's own seabed in the poor oxygen conditions and mixed with the surface layer during last winter.

This is a strong indication that agriculture, and not changing sea surface temperature, caused the regional changes in climate during the last third of the 20th century, the researchers say.

The Greenland ice sheet occupies about 82 % of the surface of Greenland, and if melted would cause sea levels to rise by 7.2 metres.

NOAA's Coral Reef Watch uses satellite observations of sea surface temperatures and modeling to monitor and forecast when water temperatures rise enough to cause bleaching.

And a third found that climate - induced sea - surface temperature anomalies over the northeast Pacific were driving storms (and moisture) away from California, but the warming also caused increased humidity — two competing factors that may produce no net effect.

The Iceland and Greenland Seas are among the only places worldwide where conditions are right and this heat exchange is able to change the ocean's density enough to cause the surface waters to sink.

During this event, the aerosols stayed close to the surface due to the presence of a anticyclone hovering over the study region at sea - level, «reducing the amount of shortwave irradiance reaching the surface and causing greater radiative cooling,» states Obregón, who likens the effects of desert dust with those resulting from certain forest fires or episodes of high pollution.

When sea ice forms, it expels salt into the surrounding water, increasing the density of the water and causing it to sink, carrying oxygenated surface water into the depths.

El Niño causes higher sea level pressure, warmer air temperature and warmer sea surface temperature in west Antarctica that affect sea ice distribution.

El Niño is a weather pattern characterized by a periodic fluctuation in sea surface temperature and air pressure in the Pacific Ocean, which causes climate variability over the course of years, sometimes even decades.

The researchers had expected the ocean to play a bigger role in eroding away the coastline, as it has elsewhere — especially as climate change is causing more Arctic sea ice to melt away, leaving the surface of the water exposed.

The currents caused by large, swirling eddies at the ocean's surface may reach all the way to the sea floor, a new study suggests.

Rising air over the Atlantic subsides over the equatorial Pacific, causing central Pacific sea surface cooling, which in turn reinforces the large - scale wind anomalies.

In this paper, we examine the causes of the observed sea level rise in the region south of Australia, using 13 years of repeat hydrographic data from the WOCE SR3 sections, and the SURVOSTRAL XBT and surface salinity data.

Cooler sea surface temperatures during La Nià ± a cause a particular form of oxygen to build up in the coral skeletons.

Hotter air on the Earth's surface leads to higher ocean temperatures, which causes ocean expansion and sea level rise;

The violence of typhoons that devastate Asian coastal regions is being magnified by rising sea surface temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions

During El Nino events the ocean circulation changes in such a way as to cause a large and temporary positive sea surface temperature anomaly in the tropical Pacific.

However, climate change is causing abnormally high sea - surface temperatures, which is causing corals to bleach during summer months (see below for detail).

That's because the gravitational attraction from a massive undersea mountain range causes water to pile up in a broad sea - surface bump several feet high.

And summer is prime melt season, when the sun's rays beat down on the ice, causing meltwater to pool on the surface and drain down through the ice sheet and out to sea.

If puppies are allowed to play on such surfaces, they may slip and hurt themselves, possibly causing an injury, or they may develop «sea - legs» which will prevent their proper development.

Threats to the auklet include introduced carnivores (particularly in Alaska), oil spills, and changes in sea surface temperature (caused by El Niño events).

Hauwa T. Abdulkarim, a Nigerian electronics researcher, reminds us that, «The sources of noise underwater include ambient noise in the sea due to sea - state; [sic] shipping noise and wind blowing on the surface is also a significant cause of noise.»

As pointed out in the post, increasing sea surface temps due to GW is a necessary, if not a sufficient cause for increased TC intensity and frequency.

Much of the recent sea ice loss is attributed to warmer sea surface temperatures with southerly wind anomalies a contributing cause [Francis and Hunter, 2007; Sorteberg and Kvingedal, 2006], with thermodynamic coupling leading to associated increases in atmospheric moisture.»

«I think this study does a good job of pinning down the fact that the [Arctic sea] ice is disappearing for a whole bunch of reasons — and that is causing the surface of Greenland's melt area to increase,» Francis said.

While Eckert et al. (2013) propose a decreased seawater input or increased river input as potential causes, van der Meer et al. (2008), in contrast, suggest that the absence of a shallow chemocline can be best explained by the high sea - surface salinity at the time.

------------ PS: The Global Coral Reef Alliance has documented dramatic declines in coral reefs caused by global warming of surface waters, using satellite data of of global coral reefs and sea surface temperatures.

According to the investigation: «There is a strong increasing trend in sea surface temperature over the northern Indian Ocean during the 1952 - 96 time period» and «Soot was a sizeable fraction of the aerosol mix and caused substantial absorption of solar radiation.

The increase in these winds has caused eastern tropical Pacific cooling, amplified the Californian drought, accelerated sea level rise three times faster than the global average in the Western Pacific and has slowed the rise of global average surface temperatures since 2001.

A significant northward trend (reduction of ice) in the winter - maximum ice edge is apparent, however, and appears to be caused by the gradual warming of sea - surface temperatures in the region (paper available on this if you want it).

Aren't those cyvlones not only steadily tugging more on the earth's surface on our seas (e. g. the so - called monsterwaves) but pulling also on our firm crust in certain places, thereby provoking unusual outbreaks of volcanoes, like in Iceland, and with that maybe also causing every more a little change on the polar axis of our planet?

During the period 1992 - 2000, the average sea - surface temperature of the Indian Ocean increased by approximately 0.25 Celsius, this may be the cause of an increased monsoon strength here (or more hurricanes on other places)...

Its hard to see how the oceans can be warming dramatically due to anthropogenic causes if the sea surface temperature (controlled for ENSO, ENSO afteraffects etc) is actually relatively stable.

This melt water lubricates the surface between the glacier and the land below, causing the glacier to flow faster into the sea.

Yes, I «believe» higher levels of CO2 cause some amount of warming and obviously also warming of the sea surface and thus lower layers of the oceans.

Years - long ocean trends such as El Niño and La Niña cause alternate warming and cooling of the sea surface there, with effects on monsoons and temperatures around the world.

The improved simulation of ENSO amplitude is mainly due to the reasonable representation of the thermocline and thermodynamic feedbacks: On the one hand, the deeper mean thermocline results in a weakened thermocline response to the zonal wind stress anomaly, and the looser vertical stratification of mean temperature leads to a weakened response of anomalous subsurface temperature to anomalous thermocline depth, both of which cause the reduced thermocline feedback in g2; on the other hand, the alleviated cold bias of mean sea surface temperature leads to more reasonable thermodynamic feedback in g2.

Oh well, the idea of it all being caused by rising sea levels does not seem to grab you, and my (and Jim Hansen's) wet surface seems to have an energy balance problem.

That is, to cause a 1 mm rise in sea level would require the equivalent of a 4.3 m drawdown of ground water table over an area of 1 % of Earth's land surface.

Consider ground water extraction first: If its ground water extraction that is causing a 1 mm per year rise in sea level, and the water is being drawn from aquifers comprising 1 % of land area, and the average porosity is 1 %, and sea surface to land surface ratio is 7:3 then: