Sentences with phrase «circulation of the ocean plays»

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The formation of coastal sea ice, seen here in the Arctic Ocean, plays an important role in driving «overturning circulation» in the North Pacific Ocean.

The Southern Ocean plays a pivotal role in the global overturning circulation, a system of surface and deep currents linking all oceans and one of the fundamental determinants of the planet's climate.

The Isthmus of Panama plays an outsized role in ocean circulation and may be a reason that our planet currently undergoes ice ages, so the new theory could rewrite not just the history of continents and biology, but also global climate.

Ocean circulation drives the movement of warm and cold waters around the world, so it is essential to storing and regulating heat and plays a key role in Earth's temperature and climate.

Known as the Antarctic Bottom Waters (AABW), these deep, cold waters play a critical role in regulating circulation, temperature, and availability of oxygen and nutrients throughout the world's oceans.

As a result, the frigid flow plays a critical role in regulating circulation, temperature, and availability of oxygen and nutrients throughout the world's oceans, and serves as both a barometer for climate change and a factor that can contribute to that change.

Climate change is playing a major role in the slowing down of the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean.

Ice shelves are important, because they play a role in the stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and the ice sheet's mass balance, and are important for ocean stratification and bottom water formation; this helps drive the world's thermohaline circulation.

They are a cornerstone of ocean ecosystems and play a significant role, as they die and sink, in taking carbon out of circulation and locking it away in rock.

In a recent technical comment, Zhang et al. show that ocean dynamics play a central role in the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), and the previous claims that «the AMO is a thermodynamic response of the ocean mixed layer to stochastic atmospheric forcing, and ocean circulation changes have no role in causing the AMO» are not justified.

Oceanographically, the Southern Ocean is a major driver of global ocean circulation and plays a vital role in interacting with the deep water circulation in each of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian ocOcean is a major driver of global ocean circulation and plays a vital role in interacting with the deep water circulation in each of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian ococean circulation and plays a vital role in interacting with the deep water circulation in each of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans.

Many factors — like the thermohaline circulation, which reverses direction at the poles as warm salty water releases heat into the air and sinks down to the bottom — are heavily influenced by the ocean's salinity, and thus, the movement of freshwater into and around the Arctic plays an important role in shaping both regional and global climate.

The main conclusion of the study is that by modulating meridional overturning circulation Arctic sea ice can play an active role in ocean and climate change.

25: Coasts), due primarily to land subsidence, 5 although recent research suggests that changes in ocean circulation in the North Atlantic — specifically, a weakening of the Gulf Stream — may also play a role.6

«Greenland ice takes on a new role in the climate change story, not just indicating change and contributing to sea level rise, but possibly playing an important role in destabilizing regional if not global ocean circulation that naturally exchanges heat north - south,» said Jason Box of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, and a study co-author, in an email to Mashable.

Surface freshwater plays an important role for ocean circulation by its influence on the formation of deep water masses.

Recent studies have indicated that shifts in the circulation of the Pacific Ocean and atmosphere have played a key role in the present hiatus» development.

The goal is to identify which factors, such as the arrangement of continents and ocean circulation, play a role in driving glaciation or halting it.

Research suggests shifts in the circulation of the Pacific Ocean and atmosphere have played a key role in the present hiatus» development.

«We need a longer data record of hurricane statistics,» he said, «and we need to understand more about the role hurricanes play in regulating the heat balance and circulation in the atmosphere and oceans.»

21 March, 2018 — Runaway climate change will alter the pattern of ocean productivity and circulation and play perhaps irreversible havoc with fish catches.

«Salt plays a far more important role that we first thought,» says Rainer Zahn, a palaeoclimatologist at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain.Zahn and his colleagues found that a build up of salty water off the coast of South Africa could jump start ocean circulation in the North Atlantic (this despite the two regions being thousands of kilometers apart) while a reduction in the South African waters» saltiness could cause the opposite effect.

Using global climate model simulations that replicated the ocean basins and landmasses of this period, it appears that changes in ocean circulation due to warming played a key role.

A weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (MOC) may have played a role in the deep ocean warming.

The Ekman upwelling from the wind stress curl associated with these structures plays an important role in ocean circulation theory, as well as in ocean biology from upwelling of nutrients from the deep water into the upper ocean where they can be utilized by phytoplankton.