Sentences with phrase «change in ocean temperature»

The researchers found sea lion numbers very sensitive to environmental changes, especially changes in ocean temperatures that affect their prey.
I find only that upward changes in ocean temperatures are followed about 6 - 12 months later by upward changes in CO2.
Changes in ocean temperature drive vast and long - distance atmospheric changes that send the moisture - laden winds away from the thirsty soils.
Climate change is triggering changes in ocean temperature, chemistry, circulation and sea levels.
For example, a small change in ocean temperature can lead to an increased number of tropical storms.
They found evidence that changes in atmospheric pressure fields preceded changes in ocean temperatures by several months.
With so many instruments on the Yahtse, researchers have a unique opportunity to monitor changes along the length of the glacier and discover how, for example, local changes in ocean temperature and currents relate to movement further up the glacier.
They found evidence that changes in atmospheric pressure fields preceded changes in ocean temperatures by several months.
Previous research has shown that global warming will cause changes in ocean temperatures, sea ice extent, salinity, and oxygen levels, among other impacts, that are likely to lead to significant shifts in the distribution range and productivity of marine species, the study notes.
Of equal importance is what will happen as the ocean warms, and what kind of changes in ocean temperatures at the surface and at depth can be expected?
This showed that the eastbound trip might be 10 minutes shorter, the westbound trip was 11 minutes longer, and most of this difference could be accounted for by natural cycles based on changes in ocean temperatures.
- I remember discussions (particularly at RC) about him claiming that you could «see the heat moving» and actually estimate the fluxes just by looking at changes in ocean temperature.
So DNA from buried sediments could be used to track the abundance of different species over time, revealing changes in ocean temperature.
The melting of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet likely caused about 20 feet of sea level rise and big changes in ocean temperature and circulation.
Changes in ocean temperature combined with the absorbtion of some of the excess atmospheric CO2 we're producing is killing coral everywhere, not just at over-trafficked tourist sites.
If you mean changes in ocean temperature, Purkey & Johnson 2010 have looked at that.
Fast forward 25 years, and Trenberth still sees changes in ocean temperature as key to understanding the ups and downs of global climate.
Like El Niño, the NPM features changes in ocean temperatures that then alter the circulation of the atmosphere, including over the U.S..
Because of the different heat capacity of the oceans and the atmosphere — the amount of energy which would heat the atmosphere by 1 K (Kelvin) will only heat the oceans by 0.001 K. Any lack of warming of the troposphere can be excused by a minuscule change in ocean temperature.
Barnett et al. «Penetration of Human - Induced Warming into the World's Oceans» (Science, Vol 309, Issue 5732, 284 - 287, 8 July 2005) «A new study has found a «compelling agreement» between observed changes in ocean temperatures since 1960 and the changes simulated by two climate models under rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.
Scientists have long known that corals are the unwitting record - keepers of the deep, chronicling minute changes in ocean temperature, salinity, chemistry and even sea levels as they slowly grow and add to their calcium - carbonate skeletons.
So if 93 % of the change forced by the alleged human climate influence has only produced a temperature change of hundredths to tenths of a °C in the deep oceans since 1955, or since CO2 concentrations rose by about 75 parts per million (315 ppm in 1955 to 390 ppm in 2010), this would clearly indicate that it is extremely difficult if not effectively impossible to confidently attribute the practically imperceptible change in ocean temperature to anthropogenic CO2 emissions, or to CO2 in general.
More succinctly, if deep ocean temperatures can naturally rise by 1 °C in 100 years without any change in CO2, then attributing changes in ocean temperature that are already «below the detection limit» for the last 200 years (or just ~ 0.1 °C since 1955) to anthropogenic CO2 forcing is highly presumptuous at best.
The study's authors wanted to know whether the growing numbers of penguins were related to local changes in ocean temperature.
Previous research has shown that global warming will cause changes in ocean temperatures, sea ice extent, salinity, and oxygen levels, among other impacts, that are likely to lead to shifts in the range and productivity of marine species.
There are small areas of decrease in the Labrador Sea and Southern Ocean that are associated with changes in ocean temperature.
«All these analyses of ocean heat content are interpreting small changes in ocean temperature, and it will need to be picked over and repeated by others before being fully accepted,» said Professor Andrew Watson, head of the Marine and Atmospheric Science group at the University of Exeter, UK.
Possible mechanisms include (vii) changes in ocean temperature (and salinity), (viii) suppression of air - sea gas exchange by sea ice, and (ix) increased stratification in the Southern Ocean.
Those changes in ocean temperatures are accompanied by changes in the atmosphere: During El Niño, convection and rains shift eastward and the normal east - to - west trade winds weaken or even reverse, while during La Niña, the normal dry state of the eastern Pacific intensifies along with the trade winds.
What about the cracks in the ocean floor which expose deeper deposits to changes in ocean temperature?
Today's 1 °F (0.5 °C) change in ocean temperatures should correspond to about a one percent increase in hurricane strength, which is too small for modern instruments to detect, according to Landsea.
In some locations, changes in ocean temperatures and atmospheric patterns brought about by El Niño lead to drier conditions, which increases the damage during «fire season».
Mei, W. et al. (2015) Northwestern Pacific typhoon intensity controlled by changes in ocean temperatures, Science Advances, doi: 10.1126 / sciadv.1500014
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