Sentences with phrase «coastal ocean processes»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The centre's research focuses on the mid-ocean-ridges and plate tectonic processes, the deep ocean (emphasizing biological and geochemical processes), the upper ocean (emphasizing the chemical and biological processes), and the management of the coastal environment.

«A lot of what we are seeing right now in the coastal regions is that warming ocean waters are melting Antarctica's glaciers and ice shelves, but this process may just be the beginning,» Shevenell said.

«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 Environocean 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 Environocean 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 Environocean; 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 Environocean to take up and store anthropogenic carbon dioxide,» said Cai, the Mary A.S. Lighthipe Professor in the College of Earth, Ocean, and EnvironOcean, and Environment.

The Marine Sciences Laboratory's, Sequim Marine Research Operations is located on Sequim Bay in Washington's Puget Sound, offers various research capabilities in ecotoxicology, analytical chemistry, wetland and coastal ecology, fisheries, ocean processes, remote sensing, biotechnology and remediation.

Coastal and boundary current systems with a focus on processes that link the nearshore and continental shelf to the open ocean, such as along - and across - shore transport processes, stirring and mixing of water masses, and the coastal response to larger - scale forcing events; long - duration, high - resolution observations using autonomous underwater gliders.

Our philosophy emphasizes the importance of understanding the processes that govern change and sustainability in the world's oceans to best use and protect our vital marine and coastal resources.

My understanding of this process is that it mostly occurs near coastal upwellings which bring up nutrients from the deep and that it is responsible for a significant fraction of ocean carbon sequestration.

All the coastal oceans receive far more fixed nitrogen from humans than they can process.

This WP aims to improve the resolution of ocean models, as well as the representation of physical and biogeochemical processes, in key regions of the world's oceans (particularly tropical coastal regions, the Southern Ocean and high Northern latitudes) to reduce well known biases in ocean models, as well as the representation of physical and biogeochemical processes, in key regions of the world's oceans (particularly tropical coastal regions, the Southern Ocean and high Northern latitudes) to reduce well known biases in Ocean and high Northern latitudes) to reduce well known biases in ESMs.

increased CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- by using ocean models that include realistic processes such as horizontal heat transport, vertical mixing due to convection and small - scale processes, and upwelling along coastal regions and the equator.

This policy document aims to provide context for Rio +20 discussions through analysis of current challenges in ocean and coastal management around the world, assessment of how well the multiple goals and objectives of previous international efforts have been met, and building on recent dialogue and inputs including the meeting of the UN Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (UNICPOLOS) and the Secretary General's report on Oceans and Law of the Sea.

Employing these principles may help reduce impacts to ocean recreation, nearshore ecology, coastal processes, public safety, aesthetics, and fishing access.

Their safety and resilience depends on the effectiveness of natural and man - made coastal flood protection, i.e. the capacity of the coastal zone to act as a buffer and absorb ocean energy through complex wave shoaling and breaking processes.

Surfrider also recognizes that there are many questions and concerns about ocean energy, including potential impacts to ocean recreation, nearshore ecology, coastal processes, public safety, aesthetics, and fishing access.

The strong controls that ecosystem metabolism and watershed processes exert on the pH in coastal ecosystems suggest that strategies based on the management of ecosystem components and watershed processes may help buffer the impacts of OA by anthropogenic CO2 locally, an option not available for the open ocean.

However, the conditions predicted for the open ocean may not reflect the future conditions in the coastal zone, where many of these organisms live (Hendriks et al. 2010a, b; Hofmann et al. 2011; Kelly and Hofmann 2012), and results derived from changes in pH in coastal ecosystems often include processes other than OA, such as emissions from volcanic vents, eutrophication, upwelling and long - term changes in the geological cycle of CO2, which commonly involve simultaneous changes in other key factors affecting the performance of calcifiers, thereby confounding the response expected from OA by anthropogenic CO2 alone.

This new concept of anthropogenic impacts on seawater pH formulated here accommodates the broad range of mechanisms involved in the anthropogenic forcing of pH in coastal ecosystems, including changes in land use, nutrient inputs, ecosystem structure and net metabolism, and emissions of gases to the atmosphere affecting the carbon system and associated pH. The new paradigm is applicable across marine systems, from open - ocean and ocean - dominated coastal systems, where OA by anthropogenic CO2 is the dominant mechanism of anthropogenic impacts on marine pH, to coastal ecosystems where a range of natural and anthropogenic processes may operate to affect pH.

River - dominated systems will reflect the dynamics of the freshwater end - member, and the deviation of coastal ecosystems supporting intense metabolism from the conservative mixing lines delineated by the open - ocean and freshwater end - members will depend on water residence time and mixing processes (Anthony et al. 2011; Falter et al. 2013).

These models would be composed of regional oceanographic modelling systems, forced both by GCMs, capturing the transport of anthropogenic CO2 to the coastal ocean and watershed processes.

Hence, the current narrative of OA as an anthropogenic process driven by increased CO2 emissions to the atmosphere and subsequent dissolution in the ocean is only applicable partially to the coastal ocean where anthropogenic impacts on pH have multiple sources and vary in intensity and direction.

Air - sea interaction, wave dynamics and wave breaking, effect of near - surface turbulence on heat, gas, and momentum transport, infrared remote sensing, upper - ocean processes, coastal and estuarine processes.