Sentences with phrase «deeper ocean layers»

The latest such work, by scientists at the University of Washington, has found skyscraper - height waves in deep ocean layers in the South Pacific — in some cases breaking in slow motion like surf on a beach.

Regarding Antarctic sea ice expansion, according to Manabe et al 1991 (Part 1 of this set of papers), the cause is decreased mixing with deeper ocean layers, not increased as stated in the opening post.

Either this is a truism (the sun must be heating the ocean surface first) or it is meant to take into account the complex circulations that occur in the ocean, like the Gulf Stream's involvement in a vertical rise of waters from deep ocean layers in one region and sinking of the cooled surface waters as the stream reaches its northern limit.

Not only does the climate model - based study, Meehl (2011), show heat is buried into deeper ocean layers when global surface temperatures stall, but it also presents plausible mechanisms in ocean circulation that transport heat down to the deep ocean.

Presumably, it does take a lot of energy to move that much water faster, with the heat potentially being redistributed into deeper ocean layers associated with perhaps poorly understood fluctuations of the Antarctic convergence at depth?

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

Rosenthal noted that this heat - banking process could buy humanity time, providing what he has called «a thermal buffer for global climate change,» particularly because the deeper ocean layers are still relatively cool (compared to much of the Holocene period since the end of the last ice age).

Just pop around the site today and you'll see Amelia Urry's interesting piece explaining why a study finding vastly more fish in a deep ocean layer than previous estimates doesn't mean worries about overfishing are overblown.

However, due to the preponderance of La Niñas, heat has been funneled to the deeper ocean layers, and is poised to come back and haunt us in future El Niño events.

The dissipative friction force is a viscous friction between the surface mixed layer and the deeper ocean layers or the shallow continental shelf.

Right: global ocean heat - content (HC) decadal trends (1023 Joules per decade) for the upper ocean (surface to 300 meters) and two deeper ocean layers (300 to 750 meters and 750 meters to the ocean floor), with error bars defined as + / - one standard error x1.86 to be consistent with a 5 % significance level from a one - sided Student t - test.

In the Atlantic Ocean, the current known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) ferries warm surface waters northward — where the heat is released into the atmosphere — and carries cold water south in the deeper ocean layers, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Consistent with model simulations led by NOAA's Gerald Meehl, Watanabe finds that we sometimes expect «hiatus decades» to occur, when surface air temperatures don't warm because more heat is transferred to the deep ocean layers.

But let's address the question anyway - do we expect to have seen some obvious indication of heat being transferred from the shallow to deep ocean layers?

The deep ocean layers have not yet been affected much by human - made warming.