Sentences with phrase «effect of the warming ocean»

Willis is leading a new mission to study the effects of warming oceans on the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

But now, a vulnerable glacier on the other side of the island, part of a massive flow of ice known as the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, shows that yet another region of Greenland is feeling the effects of warming oceans.

But I believe there is little doubt that the record - breaking scale and potential destructiveness of Sandy is due in large part to the amplifying effects of warmer ocean temperatures, higher atmospheric moisture content, and unusual Arctic weather patterns.

If the effect of increasing the partial pressure of CO2 is greater than the effect of the warming ocean then there will be a net transfer of CO2 from the atmosphere to the oceans.

The inertia of the system implies momentum (actually the same thing in physics) and suggests that even if we ceased to warm the oceans, the effects of the warmer ocean will persis long after.

Likewise even as the globe warms now, some of the contribution is from this chemistry effect of warmer oceans holding CO2 less efficiently, so maybe 10 ppm is also contributed by the degree of warming, but the other 100 + ppm is from emissions.

I live in Florida and Hurricane Irma may give me a good lesson on one of the effects of warmer oceans.

Corals and other species that depend upon them are also highly vulnerable due to the combined effects of warming ocean water, ocean acidification, and other human - caused stresses.

c) That the Arctic has only warmed because of AGW and not as a side effect of warmer ocean water flowing into the Arctic Circle.

In 2005, I argued that ice sheets may be more vulnerable than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated, mainly because of effects of a warming ocean in speeding ice melt.

The study's claim that many current estimates are conservative is in part based on the argument that ice sheets may be more vulnerable than the IPCC has estimated, partly because of the effects of warming oceans.

Not exact matches

This was probably due to outgassing of CO2 from the warming oceans and the reverse effect when they cooled.

It's made up of clean warm water, plenty of salt and a blue food colouring for the ocean effect.

Scientists can measure how much energy greenhouse gases now add (roughly three watts per square meter), but what eludes precise definition is how much other factors — the response of clouds to warming, the cooling role of aerosols, the heat and gas absorbed by oceans, human transformation of the landscape, even the natural variability of solar strength — diminish or strengthen that effect.

Researchers can measure annual changes in how the melt rate occurs, for example, or the effects of a single pulse of warm deep - ocean water.

That was the key message of a new study recently published in the journal Science, in which American and German biologists defined the first universal principle on the combined effects of ocean warming and oxygen loss on the productivity of marine life forms.

«Considering the Southern Ocean absorbs something like 60 % of heat and anthropogenic CO2 that enters the ocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System SciOcean absorbs something like 60 % of heat and anthropogenic CO2 that enters the ocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Sciocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.

Volk: Yeah, yeah that's becoming more and more of a concern as people are realizing that there is not just the greenhouse effect of CO2 being a greenhouse gas and warming the Earth up, but there is a direct chemical effect of its dissolving in the ocean as carbonic acid, and this is going to affect many marine creatures in the coming decades.

That's greater than the warming rate of either the ocean or the atmosphere, and it can have profound effects, the scientists say.

The researchers found that ocean warming would be an overwhelming stressor that made food webs less efficient, neutralised the «fertilising» effect of elevated carbon dioxide and threw the fragile relationship between predators and prey off balance.

It also eliminates much of the uncertainty surrounding potentially ill effects; whereas various mathematical models may disagree about when and at what concentrations Arctic Ocean sea ice disappears, they all agree that at roughly 3 degrees C of warming, the far north will be ice - free.

Not so long ago, it was thought warmer air would be the main cause of melting, but now it seems warming ocean waters are already having a significant effect.

B. Riegl and S. Purkis's E-Letter on our recent Review (1) focuses on promoting assisted migration, based on a belief that local adaptation and (unassisted) migration will be insufficient to allow corals to cope with the effects of global warming and ocean acidification.

On the other hand, she says, «In laboratory studies, pH variability often limited the effects of ocean acidification, but the effects of temperature variability on responses to warming were equivocal.»

And, Stevens says, the study doesn't discuss the types of clouds that are thought to be the most crucial for future warming: low - lying clouds over the subtropical oceans, which have a strong cooling effect but may be dissipating as the world warms.

Global - change scientists might move a coral from a reef to an aquarium whose water is held 1 °C higher to test the effects of the ocean warming predicted for the end of the century.

«Such a slowdown is consistent with the projected effects of anthropogenic climate change, where warming and freshening of the surface ocean from melting ice caps leads to weaker overturning circulation,» DeVries explained.

«Loss of oxygen in the ocean is one of the serious side effects of a warming atmosphere, and a major threat to marine life,» said NCAR scientist Matthew Long, lead author of the study.

The report, Explaining ocean warming: causes, scales, effects and consequences, which was presented at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawaii recently (5 September 2016), has found the upper depths of the world's oceans have warmed significantly since 1995.

El Niño — a warming of tropical Pacific Ocean waters that changes weather patterns across the globe — causes forests to dry out as rainfall patterns shift, and the occasional unusually strong «super» El Niños, like the current one, have a bigger effect on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

The effects of ocean warming might be imperceptible to most of us, but they are far - reaching.

The effects of wind changes, which were found to potentially increase temperatures in the Southern Ocean between 660 feet and 2,300 feet below the surface by 2 °C, or nearly 3.6 °F, are over and above the ocean warming that's being caused by the heat - trapping effects of greenhouse gOcean between 660 feet and 2,300 feet below the surface by 2 °C, or nearly 3.6 °F, are over and above the ocean warming that's being caused by the heat - trapping effects of greenhouse gocean warming that's being caused by the heat - trapping effects of greenhouse gases.

The difference could point to a problem with the models, which attempt to account for effects such as the loss of glaciers and ice caps and the fact that a warming ocean takes up more space.

Predicting the effects of future ocean warming on biogeochemical cycles depends critically on understanding how existing global temperature variation affects phytoplankton.

He is a leading expert on climate cycles and the effects of global warming on the Pacific Ocean.

The observed amount of warming thus far has been less than this, because part of the excess energy is stored in the oceans (amounting to ~ 0.5 °C), and the remainder (~ 1.3 °C) has been masked by the cooling effect of anthropogenic aerosols.

Several groups investigate effects of ocean acidification and warming on commercially important fish species such as cod, herring or tuna.

The oceans have absorbed approximately one third of human - produced CO2 emissions, dampening the effects of carbon dioxide - driven greenhouse warming.

The sum effect is that the oceans trap more of the sun's energy and therefore warm over time.

Recently, the effects of ongoing climate change (ocean warming and acidification) on N2 fixation drew much attention, but various studies led to controversial conclusions.

While not nearly as dramatic, the influence of solar, ocean, and wind patterns is much more immediate, but these effects generally alternate between warming and cooling over the course of months to decades in relation to their respective cycles.

These ecosystems are highly vulnerable to the combined effects of ocean acidification and warming.

In their research, which was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Christy and McNider found the climatic effects of El Niño / La Niña warming and cooling events in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean largely cancelled each other out over the study period.

The ocean's thermal inertia, which delays some global warming for decades and even centuries, is accounted for in global climate models and its effect is confirmed via measurements of Earth's energy balance (see next section).

If there is a difference in how you feel when it comes to looking at nature from your window, imagine how positive the effects are when you are actually immersing your senses in nature in real time — when you're actually feeling the breeze caress your skin, the sun warming your body, the smell of the ocean air, or the taste of sea salt on your lips.

Though 2015 was a record year, the warming of parts of the Pacific Ocean and the resulting deleterious effects on seals and sea lions began before the onset of the current El Niño effect.

Regardless, I would posit the worsening winter ice formation is as expected given the poles suffer first and winters warm faster than summers, BUT that this is happening within two years of the EN peak, which was my time line in 2015, one wonders if the combination of warm EN - heated Pacific waters (oceans move slowly) and warm air are a trailing edge of the EN effect OR this is signallibg a phase change driven by that EN, or is just an extreme winter event.

Future topics that will be discussed include: climate sensitivity, sea level rise, urban heat island - effects, the value of comprehensive climate models, ocean heat storage, and the warming trend over the past few decades.

It gained intensity right as it hit land, due to very warm oceans, due to a la nina generated anticyclone warming the ocean, combined with the effects of climate change on ocean temperatures.

Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)