Sentences with phrase «combination of warming oceans»

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«This study focused on one single stressor, ocean acidification, but we must keep in mind that the combination of several stressors, such as ocean acidification and warming could lead to larger impacts on baby corals,» Dr Moya says.

These dramatic changes appear to be the result of a combination of warmer air and ocean temperatures and the topography of the ocean floor at the head of the glacier.

The world's oceans have already risen by an average of 8 inches over the last century from a combination of water added by ice melt and the expansion of ocean waters as they warm.

Due to a combination of the warm phase of the solar cycle and an overdue switch to El Niño - when the ocean gives up a lot of heat to the atmosphere, near - future warming is expected.

If we go back to the coral reefs, even if I said ocean acidification will progress slower in the tropics, the combination of ocean acidification and warm temperature is a deadly recipe for corals.

It was amazing to be in the crisp ocean air for a few hours, and a great excuse to layer up in a combination of a wool coat and tall boots, that tends to be too warm for San Francisco.

Offering exquisite views from the ocean and warm sunsets from the furthest point of the Banderas Bay, you can find this Luxury villa rental in Punta Mita, Mexico displaying a colorful combination of landscaped areas and Mexican Architecture.

Regardless, I would posit the worsening winter ice formation is as expected given the poles suffer first and winters warm faster than summers, BUT that this is happening within two years of the EN peak, which was my time line in 2015, one wonders if the combination of warm EN - heated Pacific waters (oceans move slowly) and warm air are a trailing edge of the EN effect OR this is signallibg a phase change driven by that EN, or is just an extreme winter event.

Over all, the directives reinforce an idea I've been exploring for many years now, in the paper (see the «Big Melt» series), our prize - winning «Arctic Rush» documentary, and my prize - winning Times book, «The North Pole Was Here» — essentially, the combination of a warming climate and rising thirst for oil and gas and shipping routes guarantees that the Arctic Ocean of our history and lore, an untouched, forbidding frontier, is now really history.

Factors contributing to the accelerating erosion appear to be a combination of warmer air temperatures and reduced summer ocean ice cover.

In the NH a lot of land surrounding the arctic ocean is subject to the combination of decrease in seasonal snow cover (with climate warming), and decreasing albedo due to vegetation feedbacks.

Last summer's record loss of ice was due to a combination of natural cycle and global warming factors: «more greenhouse gases, an unusual wind pattern, and warming of the ocean water in regions with reduced sea ice.»

By comparing modelled and observed changes in such indices, which include the global mean surface temperature, the land - ocean temperature contrast, the temperature contrast between the NH and SH, the mean magnitude of the annual cycle in temperature over land and the mean meridional temperature gradient in the NH mid-latitudes, Braganza et al. (2004) estimate that anthropogenic forcing accounts for almost all of the warming observed between 1946 and 1995 whereas warming between 1896 and 1945 is explained by a combination of anthropogenic and natural forcing and internal variability.

Then some mysterious combination of flagging trades, QBO, and the up and downwelling effects of Rossby and Kelvin waves sloshing back and forth across the Pacific; suddenly releases this mechanically submerged warm water eastward across the Pacific ocean surface.

This would be some combination of warmings and coolings due to natural and / or human influences such as aerosols, instabilities in ocean currents, Length - Of - Day (LOD) fluctuations, the stadium wave (Wyatt and Curry), the 3M effect (me, December 17, Global Environmental Change section, this AGU Fall Meeting), etc. etcof warmings and coolings due to natural and / or human influences such as aerosols, instabilities in ocean currents, Length - Of - Day (LOD) fluctuations, the stadium wave (Wyatt and Curry), the 3M effect (me, December 17, Global Environmental Change section, this AGU Fall Meeting), etc. etcOf - Day (LOD) fluctuations, the stadium wave (Wyatt and Curry), the 3M effect (me, December 17, Global Environmental Change section, this AGU Fall Meeting), etc. etc..

Thanks to a combination of global warming and an ocean - warming El Niño event, 2010 is set to become one of the hottest years ever recorded, a new report says.

A combination of man - made global warming and a moderate warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean, a phenomenon known as El Niño, means it is very likely that 2010 will be a warmer year globally than 2009.

Since then there are a number of papers published on why the warming was statistically insignificant including a recent one by Richardson et al. 2016 which tries to explain that the models were projecting a global tas (temperature air surface) but the actual observations are a combination of tas (land) and SST oceans, meaning projected warming shouldn't be as much as projected.

A new article co-authored by the other of us (Michael Mann), shows that natural ocean oscillations have recently acted to temporarily slow the warming of the Earth's surface temperatures, in combination with a relatively quiet sun, and active volcanoes.

The point is that this observation is not very relevant if the outcome comes from a combination of relevant and persistently warming data from areas where the temperature is strongly correlated with increase in the heat content of oceans, atmosphere and continental topmost layers, and almost totally irrelevant data from areas and seasons where and when exceptionally great natural variability of surface temperatures makes these temperatures essentially irrelevant for the determination of longterm trends.

The search was performed with no restrictions on publication year, using different combinations of the terms: (acidification * AND ocean *) OR (acidification * AND marine *) OR (global warming * AND marine *) OR (global warming * AND ocean *) OR (climate change * AND marine * AND experiment *) OR (climate change * AND ocean * AND experiment *).

The oceans may themselves have warmed from a combination of natural and anthropogenic influences.»

It was the result of the combination of Antarctica's ozone hole and continued global warming, affecting the movement of westerly winds that prevail in the Antarctic Ocean.

The world ocean warming is likely due to a combination of natural variability, such as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, and human - induced effects, say the scientists who calculated the warming.

The study argues that ice sheets in contact with the ocean, including the many West Antarctic glaciers that end in floating ice shelves, «are vulnerable to non-linear disintegration» due to a combination of atmospheric warming and major shifts in ocean circulation that would result from a surge in freshwater flowing into the ocean in the North Atlantic (from Greenland), and Southern Ocean (from Antarctocean, including the many West Antarctic glaciers that end in floating ice shelves, «are vulnerable to non-linear disintegration» due to a combination of atmospheric warming and major shifts in ocean circulation that would result from a surge in freshwater flowing into the ocean in the North Atlantic (from Greenland), and Southern Ocean (from Antarctocean circulation that would result from a surge in freshwater flowing into the ocean in the North Atlantic (from Greenland), and Southern Ocean (from Antarctocean in the North Atlantic (from Greenland), and Southern Ocean (from AntarctOcean (from Antarctica).

In response, the California Fish and Game Commission is widely expected to support a closure of state waters; the sharp decline in stocks is blamed on a combination of factors, including surface warming, ocean acidification and pollution.

Likely culprits are some combination of overfishing, change in the PDO from warm to cool, destruction of inshore spawning habitat, shifting ocean currents, «first nation» overfishing, parasites from farm fish, and likely some unknown factors.

New study published in Nature Climate Change says a combination of warming temperatures and ocean acidification is putting nearly all of the world's coral reefs under threat.