Sentences with phrase «deep ocean waters»

Dead zones have been found in deep ocean waters for the first time.

Remote vehicles can measure the temperature of deep ocean waters, and periodically surface to transfer the information to satellites.

Researchers say the mercury in coastal fog probably comes from deep ocean waters, which well to the surface every summer.

Scientists increasingly believe that most of the rest of the missing heat has gone into deep ocean waters.

It takes a long time for deeper ocean waters to mix with the surface.

Given a purely statistical discussion, many miss that during La Niña the trade winds blow strongly away from the coast of South America, leading to an upwelling of deep ocean water off the coast.

Now the researchers noticed that all of these flu pandemics started in the boreal spring or summer and were preceded by La Niñas — the phases in the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) that see large upwelling of cold deep ocean water in the East Pacific, which is then spread out across much of the ocean.

Researchers studied the Cayman reefs, which are 80 miles south of Cuba and surrounded by deep ocean water, in part because of their remoteness and negligible impact from a small nearby human population, Frazer said.

Sardines thrived here, feeding on the rich blooms of plankton fertilized by nutrients carried along by rising deep ocean waters.

And, by using offshore platform technology proven in the oil and gas industry, we're able to build wind farms in deep ocean waters many miles offshore, where they are barely visible from shore.

All the sea surface water, warmed by the tropical sun, is blown to the west of the Pacific and, to compensate part of the imbalance, cooler deep ocean waters well up on the western shores of Latin America (and spread all the way up to the Solomon Islands).

While deep ocean waters hold it, it's plateaued surface ocean temperatures for a time.

This study highlights the importance of deep ocean water circulation through hot hydrothermal systems as one of the main removal processes in this environment balancing the supply.

Their farm draws on the natural resources that surround them — abundant warm sunlight, pure deep ocean water and 100 % fresh water drawn from Hawaiian aquifers to cultivate Hawaiian Spirulina Pacifica and BioAstin Hawaiian Astaxanthin.

Our fish meal is from deep ocean water small fish, and our crab meal comes from the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest or Nova Scotia.

Kroeker's team took advantage of geographic variability in the wind - driven upwelling of cold, deep ocean water along the West Coast.

Overlaying social factors, levels of agricultural runoff, local pollution and upwelling, a natural ocean process that brings more corrosive deep ocean water to the surface, helps tease out regional differences in vulnerability.

Nylon Pool features deep ocean waters on one side and a stretch of palm tree lined beaches on the other, providing a paradise - like setting.

There is a long «tail» of the response (> 1000 years) due to the slow mixing of deep ocean waters which makes it dificult to give just one number.

In part that affects both the d14C decay rate from the bomb impulse and the d13C sink rate from fossil fuel use (mainly caused by the THC sink / source, where the source still contains deep ocean waters, not affected by any change in the atmosphere).

And that warmer deep ocean water doesn't even have to get back up to the Arctic / Antarctic to do so.

A phenomenon known as «upwelling» off the coast of Washington state and Oregon also brings deep ocean water — which already is more acidic — to the surface, where it's saturated with even more carbon dioxide.

The many benefits of ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) include: small seasonal and daily variations in availability, benign environmental performance and by - products in a family of deep ocean water applications, for example food (aquaculture and agriculture) and potable water, and improving economics as a result of higher oil prices.

But when the cycle reverses, and deep ocean waters cycle back toward the surface, the warming increase will continue on as the long term observed trend has shown.

Kevin C @ 33, pumping deep ocean water to the surface will in fact draw down excess CO2, but only by limiting the extent to which the ocean will further draw down CO2 once we stop pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.

Probably the cheapest method of doing it would be by heating deep ocean water to make it rise rather than pumping e.g. by dumping thousands of unshielded breeder reactor cores off the side of a ship.

The Post also reported first result that deep ocean waters under the glacier are heating up.

Within the NSF, the Earth Sciences Division supports research on the continental and coastal record of sedimentary basins, while the Ocean Sciences Division supports ocean basin and deep ocean water research.

The researchers found that during glacial periods when the atmosphere was colder and sea ice was far more extensive, deep ocean waters came to the surface much further north of the Antarctic continent than they do today.

GO WITH THE FLOW Using climate and ocean simulations, researchers tracked virtual particles traveling in deep ocean water from the Atlantic as that water spirals and surfaces around Antarctica.

The largest icebergs usually hug the Antarctic coast for decades before wandering into deep ocean water, where they melt and fall to pieces.

However, when large animals go extinct the natural cycling of nutrients from deep ocean waters to high mountainous areas is significantly reduced, researchers revealed in a new study.

The paper discusses that melting ice will decrease the salinity of the ocean waters around Antarctica, which will cause decreased mixing with the relatively warmer deep ocean waters, reducing sea surface temperatures, causing more sea ice to form.

While such a «missing heat» explanation for a lack of recent warming [i.e., Trenberth's argument that just can not find it yet] is theoretically possible, I find it rather unsatisfying basing an unwavering belief in eventual catastrophic global warming on a deep - ocean mechanism so weak we can't even measure it [i.e., the coldest deep ocean waters are actually warmer than they should be by thousandths of a degree]...

And, by using offshore platform technology proven in the oil and gas industry, we're able to build wind farms in deep ocean waters many miles offshore, where they are barely visible from land.

Surveys off the U.S. West Coast and in the eastern tropical Pacific have shown that the upwelling of deep ocean water rich in nutrients supports dense patches of krill that blue whales feed on.

As it churned west, it picked up steam and finally exploded into a Category 5 beast on Sept. 5 thanks to a perfect combination of weather ingredients: weak wind shear; warm, deep ocean water; and high levels moisture in the air, according to Weather Underground meteorologist Jeff Masters.

The leading hypothesis now is that it wasn't primarily ocean circulation but a change in the location or strength of winds in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica that forced upwelling of deep ocean water, which then released CO2 to the atmosphere.

Kadri says the results may help scientists connect interactions between not only surface and deep ocean waters, but also with the atmospheric forces that affect surface waves.

«The ocean bed is quite complex, and there are some regions that provide access for warm, deep ocean water to those glaciers,» Scheuchl says.