Sentences with phrase «cool ocean surface»

Similarly, if you cool the ocean surface, the ocean can dissolve more carbon dioxide.

However, tropical storms cool the ocean surface through mixing with cooler deeper ocean layers and through evaporation.

But what happens in our model if real world situations cool the ocean surface more?

Nevertheless that cool ocean surface is absorbing solar energy and must warm, whilst the process of sweeping the warm waters westward by the SE Trades continues then the heat input with be masked / mixed into waters below.

Since most of the planet's surface is ocean, an unusually cool ocean surface temperature lowers the overall average.

The heat sink is the cold bottom water which the heat engine can pump up to cool the ocean surface and the overlying atmosphere.

This warming is less than it will ultimately be, because the cool ocean surface holds back the warming — allowing more energy loss out the bottom than will ultimately be the case.

ENSO events, for example, can warm or cool ocean surface temperatures through exchange of heat between the surface and the reservoir stored beneath the oceanic mixed layer, and by changing the distribution and extent of cloud cover (which influences the radiative balance in the lower atmosphere).

ENSO events, for example, can warm or cool ocean surface temperatures through exchange of heat between the surface and the reservoir stored beneath the oceanic mixed layer, and by changing the distribution and extent of cloud cover (which influences the radiative balance in the lower atmosphere).

Similarly, if you cool the ocean surface, the ocean can dissolve more carbon dioxide.

It was Olav Hollingsæter, founder of the company OceanTherm AS, who came up with the idea of cooling ocean surface waters as a means of preventing hurricanes.

After relatively cooler ocean surface years, the increase is small, and after relatively warmer ocean surface years, the increase is large.

Albedo from medium / low level clouds warms or cools the ocean surface by increasing or decreasing over time across the global surface.

Warmer air holds more water vapour so that warmer air will extract more vapour from the ocean surface thereby cooling the ocean surface..

That helped prevent cold water at depth from churning up and cooling the ocean surface.

AGW proponents accept that the virtual cessation of warming over the past 13 years (Figure 3) is a result of cooler ocean surfaces but refuse to accept the corollary that the primary cause of the warmer period was warmer ocean surfaces.

The apparent levelling off in the sea level rise is coincident with recent cooler ocean surfaces.

The melting ice would cool ocean surfaces at the poles even more.

Cooler ocean surfaces cause them to draw back equatorward.

Quite so but only because, during the current interglacial low solar activity generally occurs around the same time as low rates of energy release from the oceans so that during the LIA the quiet sun was mitigating the effect of the cooler ocean surfaces.

Not exact matches

Atmocean, a company developing ways to harness energy from ocean waves, looked into making devices to cool the surface of the ocean after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The data showed that, in comparison to today, the Atlantic Ocean surface circulation was much weaker during the Little Ice Age, a cool period thought to be triggered by volcanic activity that lasted from 1450 - 1850.

While it is still possible that other factors, such as heat storage in other oceans or an increase in aerosols, have led to cooling at the Earth's surface, this research is yet another piece of evidence that strongly points to the Pacific Ocean as the reason behind a slowdown in warming.

That wind - driven circulation change leads to cooler ocean temperatures on the surface of the eastern Pacific, and more heat being mixed in and stored in the western Pacific down to about 300 meters (984 feet) deep, said England.

The cycle of Pacific Ocean surface water warming and cooling has become more variable in recent decades, suggesting El Niño may strengthen under climate change

They identified wind patterns that mixed the warmer surface and colder deep waters to cool the ocean's surface and reduce the intensity of the storm.

So as soon as the hail of asteroids stopped, Earth may have cooled to an average surface temperature of — 40 °F and a crust of ice as much as 1,000 feet thick may have covered the oceans.

Of course, the fact that dust has played a natural cooling role in the past does not mean that the deliberate application of iron filings to the ocean surface would have a similar cooling effect today.

The other global flu pandemics over the past century — in 1957, 1968 and 2009 — also followed cooler sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean.

They found that adding five years of strong trade winds created powerful ocean currents that buried the warm surface water, bringing cooler water to the surface.

The device will involve pumping cool water to the ocean surface, in much the same manner as would be required to stop a typhoon.

Most researchers accept what's called the magma ocean theory — that soon after its formation the moon was so hot that it was covered with a deep ocean of molten rock that cooled to form the surface we see today.

The surface may have cooled quickly — with oceans, nascent continents and the opportunity for life to form much earlier

But a reduction in the number and intensity of large hurricanes driving ocean waters on shore — such as this month's Hurricane Joaquin, seen, which reached category 4 strength — may also play a role by cooling sea - surface temperatures that fuel the growth of these monster storms, the team notes.

If heat is being redistributed in the oceans, the cooler surface could be cooling the air above.

Even as the surface warms, the deeps remain cool, and this cold water will continue to periodically push the ocean out of the El Niño state.

Due to the cooling dissolved material now partially precipitates as fine particles, which are carried by the warm water to the ocean's surface.

At the same time as the surface is cooling, the deeper ocean is warming, which has already accelerated the decline of glaciers in the Amundsen Sea Embayment.»

Warm and saline water transported poleward cools at the surface when it reaches high latitudes and becomes denser and subsequently sinks into the deep ocean.

For example, scientists have found that El Niño and La Niña, the periodic warming and cooling of surface waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, are correlated with a higher probability of wet or dry conditions in different regions around the globe.

Thanks to natural warming and cooling, oxygen concentrations at the sea surface are constantly changing — and those changes can linger for years or even decades deeper in the ocean.

«The mounting evidence is coalescing around the idea that decades of stronger trade winds coincide with decades of stalls or even slight cooling of global surface temperatures, as heat is apparently transferred from the atmosphere into the upper ocean,» Linsley said.

Like polarized light (which vibrates in one direction and is produced by the scattering of visible light off the surface of the ocean, for example), the polarized «B - mode» microwaves the scientists discovered were produced when CMB radiation from the early universe scattered off electrons 380,000 years after the Big Bang, when the cosmos cooled enough to allow protons and electrons to combine into atoms.

The deep circulation that drives warm surface waters north is weakening, leading to a cooling of the north Atlantic relative to the rest of the oceans.

As the Earth continued to cool from Years 0.1 to 0.3 billion, a torrential rain fell that turned to steam upon hitting the still hot surface, then superheated water, and finally collected into hot or warm seas and oceans above and around cooling crustal rock leaving sediments.

If we think of hurricanes as Stirling heat engines, then we realize that the two reservoirs are the mixed layer of the surface ocean (1) and the upper atmosphere (2); note that there is a general trend of stratospheric cooling as well.

A hurricane builds energy as it moves across the ocean, sucking up warm, moist tropical air from the surface and dispensing cooler air aloft.

When greenhouse gases increase, more longwave radiation is directed back at the ocean surface, which warms the cool - skin layer, lowers the thermal gradient, and consequently reduces the rate of heat loss.

The thermal gradient through this layer dictates the rate of heat loss from the (typically) warmer ocean surface, to the cooler atmosphere above.

Naturally occurring interannual and multidecadal shifts in regional ocean regimes such as the Pacific El Niño - Southern Oscillation, the North Atlantic Oscillation, and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, for example, are bimodal oscillations that cycle between phases of warmer and cooler sea surface temperatures.