Sentences with phrase «change in salinity»

Chen & Tung claim that changes in salinity in the North Atlantic is the driver of decadal variation in ocean mixing, rather than the IPO.

Aquarius will be able to measure changes in salinity caused by evaporation, rain and snow, and melting sea ice.

Observing changes in salinity helps scientists understand ocean circulation and currents, the global water cycle, and other fundamental features of the seas.

The report notes that changes in the salinity of oceans, if glaciers melt and water temperatures change, could affect submarine equipment such as sonar.

(Their luminescence index measures changes in salinity associated with monsoons).

Its measurements of ocean saltiness will also help scientists understand how changes in salinity affect the deep currents that drive ocean circulation.

The water is constantly changing in salinity.

The new formula developed by the PNNL - led team takes this change as well as changes in salinity into account to more accurately represent the ocean - storm interaction.

In October, NASA's second Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study (SPURS - 2) returns to the eastern tropical Pacific to recover instruments installed in September to investigate the oceanic and atmospheric processes that control changes in salinity.

Striking changes in salinity are found from the surface to the bottom in the northern North Atlantic near water mass formation sites that fill the water column (Section 5.3.2); bottom changes elsewhere are small, being most prevalent at the under - sampled southern ends of both sections.

Studying these changes requires investigating changes in salinity, the primary indicator of regional changes of freshwater in the ocean.

Due to associated flooding and high rainfall, the resulting change in salinity disrupts coral osmosis, which can result in coral death.

However, I haven't yet seen anything on the contribution made to changes in salinity of the North Atlantic by the melting of ice - rich permafrost.

The change in salinity would be a dead give - away... but no sign of any global flood in the samples..

when I saw the change in salinity,» said Menezes.

Increased ocean temperatures, changes in salinity and overfishing have driven the fish eastward.

The change in salinity encouraged sea ice to form which in turn created a change in wind patterns, leading to intensified monsoons.

This suggests that strain JAM1 could be more resilient to changes in salinity.

The study, published in the journal Global Change Biology, examined the impacts of rising ocean temperatures, changes in salinity and currents resulting from a warming climate.

The retreat of glaciers and shrinking of the Greenland ice sheet in the Arctic, for example, is predicted to cause significant sea - level rise, changes in the salinity of our oceans, and altered feedback loops that will make the Arctic warm up even faster.

Chief among these claims is that the change in salinity in the North Atlantic ocean is responsible for the decadal fluctuations, not changes in the trade winds and mid-latitude westerlies (the IPO)- as suggested by Meehl et al (2011), Meehl et al (2013) and England et al (2014) for instance.

The San Joaquin / Sacramento River Delta and the San Francisco Bay were found to be «particularly vulnerable to sea level rise and changes in salinity, temperature, and runoff» by the National Climate Assessment, meaning that as sea levels rise, the nearly 30 million Californians who use these systems could see their drinking water become contaminated with salt.

The observed changes in salinity are of global scale, with similar patterns in different ocean basins (Figure 5.6).

Not everything is equal, up / downwelling, changes in salinity, storms, all stir up the ocean and permit water to mix vertically.

The change in salinity would damage 734 square miles of freshwater marshland that acts not only as a hub of economic activity, but also an important natural buffer against storms.