Sentences with phrase «coastal ocean»

This study also highlights the impact of fine - scale variation in coastal ocean chemistry on coral reefs.

Greenhouse gas, upwelling - favorable winds, and the future of coastal ocean upwelling ecosystems.

She is responsible for surface ocean carbon programmes and coastal ocean acidification observations in New Zealand, and is actively involved in a number of globally coordinated activities such as SOCAT, GOA - ON and IOCCP.

Increasing temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and changes in coastal ocean waters are affecting agricultural and fishery productivity.

By bringing together microbial ecologists, biogeochemists her group examines the influence of microbial communities on coastal ocean processes, especially in light of a changing climate.

Global climate change and intensification of coastal ocean upwelling.

At the point of the minimum last month, «almost every area of the Antarctic coastal ocean had less sea ice than normal,» notes Sambos, «except for the western Weddell Sea — pressed against the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula — that was normal in extent and fearsomely well - packed.»

The potential of coastal ocean alkalinization (COA), a carbon dioxide removal (CDR) climate engineering strategy that chemically increases ocean carbon uptake and storage, is investigated with an Earth system model of intermediate complexity.

The US CLIVAR PSMI Panel seeks new panelists with prior expertise in field / process studies or model development in one or more of the following areas: (a) clouds, (b) high - frequency ocean - atmosphere interaction (diurnal to sub-seasonal), (c) coastal ocean processes, (d) high - latitude processes (i.e., Arctic, Antarctic, ocean - ice interactions), or (e) ocean biogeochemical cycles / ecosystem interactions.

In March, Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) will conduct its second set of airborne surveys of glacier heights around the edge of Greenland and coastal ocean conditions.

But scientists gathered valuable data on coastal ocean currents before instruments went offline

The IPCC's 2007 report and other analyses of the global carbon cycle have largely neglected to take coastal oceans into account, he said.

Many of the tiniest coastal ocean creatures can trace their food sources back to these nutrients coming off the land.

Nieves» team, which included participation from the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies in Esporles, Spain, set out to detect decadal sea level changes over large U.S. coastal ocean regions.

Kelp forests occur worldwide throughout temperate and polar coastal oceans.

«Major changes in northeast Pacific marine ecosystems have been correlated with phase changes in the PDO; warm eras have seen enhanced coastal ocean biological productivity in Alaska and inhibited productivity off the west coast of the contiguous United States, while cold PDO eras have seen the opposite north - south pattern of marine ecosystem productivity.»

JIGSAW (GEO) is a set of algorithms designed to generate complex, variable resolution unstructured meshes for geophysical modelling applications, including: global ocean and atmospheric simulation, numerical weather prediction, coastal ocean modelling and ice - sheet dynamics.

The aerosols and / or water vapour will drift and could perhaps account for the forcing changes over coastal oceans.

A group of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) researchers and engineers have developed and tested an innovative new system for sampling small planktonic larvae in coastal ocean waters and understanding their distribution.

She is responsible for surface ocean carbon programmes and coastal ocean acidification observations in New Zealand, and is actively involved in a number of globally coordinated activities such as SOCAT, GOA - ON and IOCCP.

Overall, this study reveals a unique susceptibility of the Antarctic coastal ocean to remote wind perturbations, particularly subsurface ocean temperatures on the western side of the peninsula.

Another big limit is pollution levels, especially from nitrogen and phosphorus, things that are in small amounts are very good for us, because they help fertilize our crops, but when we pollute too much more or use too much fertilizer, we can impair lakes and rivers and even degrade entire seas and coastal oceans, causing [them] to have dead zones where no fish can survive, like we have in the Gulf of Mexico.

We are seeing nitrate pollution in the Gulf of Mexico and a lot of our coastal oceans near the mouth of rivers that are downstream from Big Ag production regions that use a lot of fertilizers.

You could argue [on] the climate change [one], but [on nutrient] pollution we have used so much [fertilizer] and so much nitrogen compounds are loose in the environment, it is hard to recognize our coastal oceans anymore; of the species that are gone [and] that kind of thing.

His research efforts will contribute to a better understanding of vertical and lateral carbon fluxes — the amount of carbon exchanged between the land and the atmosphere, and the amount of carbon exchanged between the land and the coastal ocean — in tidal coastal wetlands.

«Recent studies have shown that there's substantial lateral carbon exports from these ecosystems toward the coastal ocean and that is something that we also would like to understand,» said Vargas.

Unexpected source of Fukushima - derived radiocesium to the coastal ocean of Japan.

The groundwater is releasing the cesium into the coastal ocean at a rate that's on par with the leakage of cesium into the ocean from the reactor site itself, Sanial's team estimates.

«Urban organics» thus remain at higher levels longer, says Canuel, «delivering more organic material to the river mouth and increasing the likelihood that low - oxygen conditions will develop in downstream locations such as estuaries and the coastal ocean.»

As glaciers expanded, spring and summer runoff poured nutrients into the coastal ocean, fueling explosive growth in krill and small animals the whales consumed, they speculate.

Those two assaults on the coastal ocean are backed by our whole economy.

They hunt in the coastal ocean at night, when shrimp and squid — their favorite foods — migrate upward from deeper waters.

«If the coastal ocean is getting healthier with five times more people living in Coastal California, this is because we have done a great job at regulating water quality.»

So this previously unknown, ongoing, and persistent source of contamination to coastal oceans «needs to be considered in nuclear power plant monitoring and scenarios involving future accidents.»

Since dead zones in the coastal ocean and estuaries are expanding throughout the world, Lapham decided to look at the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States, to understand what happens to methane release in a body of water that undergoes dead zones on a regular basis.

The study authors used recently available and historical data from the past 35 years to calculate global trends of carbon dioxide concentration increases in the coastal ocean.

«If this conclusion is confirmed by future observations, it would mean that the coastal ocean will become more and more efficient at removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,» said Goulven Lurallue, the paper's lead author and a researcher with Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.

«This is because the coastal ocean is shallower than the open ocean and can quickly transfer sequestered carbon dioxide to the deep ocean; this process creates an additional and effective pathway for the ocean to take up and store anthropogenic carbon dioxide,» said Cai, the Mary A.S. Lighthipe Professor in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment.

The analysis revealed that, while the amount of carbon dioxide in the open ocean is increasing at the same rate as in the atmosphere, these same carbon dioxide concentrations are increasing slower in the coastal ocean.

«The chemistry and the microbes suggest that it's just another coastal ocean,» Sullivan says.

Cai explained that in the coastal ocean, in general, there is a synergistic effect on OA when excess nutrients introduced into the ecosystem from land cause plant overgrowth, a process known as eutrophication that upsets the water's natural chemistry and causes the death of marine species.

«This study shows for the first time that the oxidation of hydrogen sulfide and ammonia from the bottom waters could be a major contributor to lower pH in coastal oceans and may lead to more rapid acidification in coastal waters compared to the open ocean,» said Cai, the paper's lead author and an expert in marine chemistry and carbon's movement through coastal waters.

«We had better invest in expanding our observing capacity, because what happened in the open and coastal ocean was a major surprise,» Miles said.