Sentences with phrase «deeper areas of the ocean»

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The coolest point beneath the ridges was found near the lowest point, an area of very deep and rugged seafloor known as the Australian - Antarctic discordance in the Indian Ocean.

President Barack Obama on Thursday will designate the largest marine sanctuary in the world in an area of the Pacific Ocean that will be off - limits to commercial fishing and deep - sea mining, the White House said on Wednesday.

«Cold, deep water from this little area of the Nordic seas, less than 1 % of the global ocean, travels the entire planet and returns as warm surface water.

Exponentially less methane would be able to reach the atmosphere in waters that are thousands of feet deep at the very edge of the shallow seas near continents, which is the area of the ocean where the bulk of methane hydrates are,» Sparrow says.

«In that area, like on the eastern boundaries of other tropical oceans, nutrient - rich waters from deeper water layers are transported to the surface,» explains co-author Prof. Dr. Hermann Bange, also from GEOMAR.

This research not only provides the first clear evidence that microorganisms were directly involved in the deposition of Earth's oldest iron formations; it also indicates that large populations of oxygen - producing cyanobacteria were at work in the shallow areas of the ancient oceans, while deeper water still reached by the light (the photic zone) tended to be populated by anoxyenic or micro-aerophilic iron - oxidizing bacteria which formed the iron deposits.

In his research published in the December issue of the journal Geology of the Geological Society of America, Czaja and his colleagues Nicolas Beukes from the University of Johannesburg and Jeffrey Osterhout, a recently graduated master's student from UC's department of geology, reveal samples of bacteria that were abundant in deep water areas of the ocean in a geologic time known as the Neoarchean Eon (2.8 to 2.5 billion years ago).

«This work helps inform our knowledge and understanding of the deep sea ecosystems north of Cordell Bank and Gulf of the Farallones national marine sanctuaries, areas that are extremely important to the ocean environment.»

Gage and Gordon take issue with claims by Rudall Blanchard Associates, Shell's consultants, that the deep ocean «supports a small range of species»; that deep - water fishing does not take place in the area; and that water currents at the site are what atmospheric meteorologists would call «dead calm».

An analysis of sediment from 17 seabed sites — from European estuaries to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the deep Atlantic Ocean — found that the bathyal region of the Rockall Trough has more species than any other area so far measured.

Presently the ocean absorbs approximately 25 % of industrial area CO2 emissions, and 93 % of the heat; much of this absorption occurs in deep waters below 200 m (Levin and Le Bris, 2015).

In the abyssal realm, seafloor habitats under areas of deep - water formation (e.g., those in the North Atlantic and Southern Oceans) could experience a maximum decline in O2 concentration of 0.03 mL L — 1 by 2100 (i.e., a 0.5 % drop from current levels; Tables 2, 3; Figures 2, 3).

His areas of expertise are paleoceanography of surface and deep - ocean circulation using micropaleontological and geochemical tracers; planktonic foraminiferal ecology and paleoecology; and paleoclimatology from cave deposits.

Stukel and his colleagues examined one such front off the coast of Santa Barbara, California and set sediment traps to measure how much carbon was being transported to the deep ocean in these areas.

Researchers have found seven new animal species living along the Southwest Indian Ridge, 3,000 metres beneath the surface of the ocean, in an area targeted for deep - sea mining.

But if we decide to explore other parts of the ocean, we still have options: we can go wider, exploring interesting and important areas of the ocean we'll never get to during the K - 12 curriculum, or we can go deeper, staying in the travel lanes but exploring aspects of those lanes most students won't see.

A vibrant area rug adds a pop of color, and of course, there's always the rich greens and deep blues of the trees and ocean outside.

Extremely large front balcony (four metres deep) with magnificent ocean views and a rear balcony situated off the main bedroom of every apartment and facing a lush tropical internal garden area.

With spectacular views of the surrounding area and overlooking the luscious deep blue ocean, each room has been carefully designed to incorporate the beauty of Filipino architecture with modern comforts.

As you can imagine, there is a great deal of wildlife that travels between the inner coastal area and the deep open ocean.

Rich passages of brilliant color abound; an aqueous, briny, sea - soaked passage of shimmering blue evokes the deep and fathomless ocean, while fleshy areas of luminous peach convey flashes of bare skin surrounded by frothy waves and or a late afternoon shower.

Some parts of the continental USA have a heat flux of the order of 10Wm - 2, perhaps there are similar areas of high flux in the deep oceans?

I have to raise an objection to the phrase «the only region of the world that has defied global warming» — that might be neglecting a certain area in the Pacific where England 2014 has identified a very obvious point where the «Pacific conveyor» was bringing in the last decade up a lot of cold water from the deep ocean and has possibly played a major role in the specific trends for that period.

The fast response from oceans and vegetation (opposite to each other) leads to a change of about 3 ppmv / °C, while the long term response (including ice sheet / vegetation surface area and - deep - ocean current changes) is about 8 ppmv / °C.

Reactions on longer time frames (about 50 years LIA, 600 years glacial - interglacial, many thousands of years interglacial - glacial) involves (deep) ocean temperatures, ocean current changes, vegetation / land ice area changes,...

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.

«However, the detailed analysis of the numerical experiment reveals that the absence of substantial surface warming in the Circumpolar Ocean is attributable not only to the large fraction of the area covered by the oceans but also to the deep penetration of positive temperature anomaly into the oceans.»

A large area of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is also losing mass, probably because of warmer water deep in the ocean near the Antarctic coast.

Variability in the formation of North Atlantic deep water will lead to climatic change downwind from the northern North Atlantic; it will also influence other areas of the world ocean.

In many cases, the lack or insufficient quality of long - term observations, be it a specific variable, an important processes, or a particular region (e.g., polar areas, the upper troposphere / lower stratosphere (UTLS), and the deep ocean), remains an impediment.

As I understand it, areas of the Planet such as the atmosphere, upper ocean, deep ocean etc. should, in a perfect (ly mixed) world increase in temperature uniformily (i.e. in step with each other).

The vertically integrated inventory of human emitted CO2 in the oceans is (not surprisingly) much greater in areas of cold deep convection, especially in the northern Atlantic (the falling leg of the thermohaline circulation), and much less in the tropics where the ocean is strongly stratified; absorption in the tropics really is more in the near - surface waters.

Where there is transportation it can be dumped in the ocean, either in areas of sedimentation or in deep water.

However the 2nd law of thermodynamics would only be relevant if we knew the rate at which the deep ocean was warming (or whatever area of the Earth was relevant at the time) was still below the «uniform» rate.

Bio-optical sensors would supplement satellite observations of the ocean's color by providing measurements of chlorophyll, light, and light scattering deep into the ocean interior throughout the year, in cloud - and ice - covered areas, or during the dark of polar winter.

It then follows that we * MIGHT * actually be seeing the after effects of the Medieval warm period... Though I've read this wasn't a worldwide phenomena, though, it is likely that ocean current would have circulated the effect, and after 800 years, a localised heating of this type, might have an effect in all the deep ocean areas.

Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, from and after enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2008, the Secretary shall not offer for leasing for oil and gas, or natural gas, any area within 50 miles of the coastline that was withdrawn from disposition by leasing in the Atlantic OCS Region or the Pacific OCS Region, or the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region Eastern Planning Area, as depicted on the maps referred to in this subparagraph, under the Memorandum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from Leasing Disposition, 34 Weekly Carea within 50 miles of the coastline that was withdrawn from disposition by leasing in the Atlantic OCS Region or the Pacific OCS Region, or the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region Eastern Planning Area, as depicted on the maps referred to in this subparagraph, under the Memorandum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from Leasing Disposition, 34 Weekly CArea, as depicted on the maps referred to in this subparagraph, under the Memorandum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from Leasing Disposition, 34 Weekly Comp.

Deep ocean currents occasionally push through the warm surface layer in the south eastern Pacific in one of the major areas for upwelling on the planet.

Argo has nearly 4000 floats in areas of oceans ice free and deeper than 2000m.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, from and after the enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2008, prior to January 1, 2022, no area of the outer Continental Shelf located in the Gulf of Mexico east of the military mission line may be offered for leasing for oil and gas or natural gas unless a waiver is issued by the Secretary of Defense.

ensure that natural gas leases are only available for tracts on the outer Continental Shelf that are wholly within 100 miles of the coastline within an area withdrawn from disposition by leasing on the day after the date of enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2008;

«In many cases, the lack of long term observations, observations suitable for the evaluation of important processes, or observations in particular regions (e.g., polar areas, the upper troposphere / lower stratosphere (UTLS), and the deep ocean) remains an impediment.»

The deep ocean areas to the east and south of Taiwan are among the best in the world for development of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (Oocean areas to the east and south of Taiwan are among the best in the world for development of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OOcean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC).

8 global circulation of deep ocean currents transports warm water to colder areas & cold water to warmer areas efficient heat - transport system drives Earth's climate

The grossly inexplicable assumption by the IPCC that the oceans are static considering they constitute 70 % of the surface area of the earth, 1000 times the heat capacity of the atmosphere and is 10s of thousands of feet deep in contact with the mantle of the earth for which we have virtually NO data to this very day.

While that still is sparse for the full oceans (especially the South Pacific) surface, all repeated measurements of the same places over time show an increase in DIC, and as far as measured, a decrease in pH. That includes the main upwelling areas where the deep ocean volcano releases should be measurable first.

Heat moves around the ocean in mysterious ways, and as Trenberth notes there are considerable areas of uncertainty in deep water measurements, Arctic heat content and the analysis techniques themselves.

Over these shelf areas, ice is absent at least part of the year, but ice is found year - round over the deep ocean.

Third, as first observed in the 1990s, the area is vulnerable to a regional ocean current, ushered in by the shape of the sea floor and the proximity of the circumpolar deep current.

One, on the effects of oil spills into Canadian marine waters released in 2015 by an expert panel of the Royal Society of Canada, concluded that more research is required «to better understand the environmental impact of spilled crude oil in high - risk and poorly understood areas, such as Arctic waters, the deep ocean and shores or inland rivers and wetlands.»