Sentences with phrase «deep ocean waters many»

Knowing that these are diluted by a yearly exchange of about 90 GtC from the 13C rich deep ocean waters (vegetation plays a minor role in this), we don't expect to find much anthro CO2 (labeled with a low d13C per mil) in the atmosphere.

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

Re 99 should be:... Thus, global atmospheric temperatures were higher in the early Eocene (55 - 50 mya) than in the late Cretaceous (70 - 80 mya) while the deep ocean waters were cooler in early Eocene than in late Cretaceous.

Ice formation expels most of its salts and makes the also cold waters heavier than the deep ocean waters.

``... mixing of cold, deep ocean waters with solar - heated warm surface waters.»

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

«The short answer is that, during El Nino, there is an average decrease in the vertical overturning and mixing of cold, deep ocean waters with solar - heated warm surface waters.»

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.

However, I have repeatedly pointed out that the opposite is also possible because the deep ocean waters now returning to ocean surface could be altering the pH of the ocean surface layer with resulting release of CO2 from the ocean surface layer.

It may have its origin with the 800 year overturning of deep ocean waters from the polar sink places to the equatortial upwelling places.

My theory was we already had observational proof that the heat must be sequestered in the deep ocean waters.

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).

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.

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

«Deepwater wind» refers to wind - turbine technology that could safely be built in deep ocean waters.

Most of these high - price reserves (PDF) are on the industry's new frontiers — in the Arctic, deep ocean waters or unconventional sources such as the Alberta tar sands (PDF), where three major projects were deferred in 2014 because of falling oil prices.

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 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 shore.

A lot of reseach energy is being devoted to the study of Methane Clathrates — a huge source of greenhouse gases which could be released from the ocean if the thermocline (the buoyant stable layer of warm water which overlies the near - freezing deep ocean) dropped in depth considerably (due to GHG warming), or especially if the deep ocean waters were warmed by very, very extreme changes from the current climate, such that deep water temperatures no longer hovered within 4C of freezing, but warmed to something like 18C.

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.

5 Earth's surface and deep ocean waters warmed by ∼ 5 ◦ C, of which part may have oc - curred prior to the CIE.. However, few records document continental climatic trendsand changes in seasonality have not been documented.

These marine mammals spend almost all their lives in the deep ocean waters, diving to depths of a mile in search of food.

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.

Found in the deep ocean waters off of south - eastern Australia, the Blobfish is really a creature only a mom (or dad) could love!

My theory was we already had observational proof that the heat must be sequestered in the deep ocean waters.

Vast numbers of bacteria and plankton occur both at the surface and in deep ocean waters.

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

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

The federal government is about to open up to wind energy development vast swaths of deep ocean waters, and states and wind park developers are vying to be the first to seize the new frontier.

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.

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion A technology using the temperature difference between cold, deep ocean waters and warmer surface waters to generate electricity.

In these areas, deep ocean waters that are naturally rich in carbon dioxide are upwelling and mixing with surface waters that are absorbing carbon dioxide from 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.

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.

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

In his letter, Alec Dunn suggests that pumping nutrient - rich deep ocean water to the surface would stimulate plankton growth and...

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.

During the spring and summer months, deep ocean water rich in carbon dioxide periodically wells up along the California coast when surface waters are pushed offshore by strong winds.

So the air was getting colder, but the deep ocean water was getting warmer, during the coldest periods of the Ice Age.

Deep ocean water, which is relatively warm, has been melting portions of the ice sheet at its base.

In his letter, Alec Dunn suggests that pumping nutrient - rich deep ocean water to the surface would stimulate plankton growth and hence capture atmospheric carbon (18 August, p 32).

Upwelling — or deep ocean water rising to the surface following north winds off the Washington coast — was carrying acidic water to the surface.

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.

And shouldn't the relative T - difference even increase in the future as shallower coastal waters heat up more quickly than deeper ocean water (except probably in upwelling areas)?

Regarding the oceans: If it is not surface heat that is warming deep ocean water, what is?

Deep ocean water has a temperature of about 3 degrees Celsius and a salinity measuring about 34 - 35 psu.»

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.

That La Niña [generally leading to a cool year — because a lot of cool deep ocean water is spread out over a vast area of the Pacific, interacting with the atmosphere] may have been one of the strongest ever.

It is fed by the freshwater input of the big Siberian and Canadian streams (Ob, Yenisei, Lena, Mackenzie), the water of which quasi floats on the saltier, denser, deeper ocean water.