Sentences with phrase «entire ocean system»

The events here are significant for the entire ocean system.

Not exact matches

Astronomers have just found the best evidence yet of an entire ocean in an exceedingly unlikely place — the dwarf planet Pluto, in the dark hinterlands of the solar system.

So city officials are spending some $ 16 million to upgrade their stormwater system, and to move the city's entire drinking supply to the west to get out of the way of the ocean.

So, for example, a big part of what drives a hurricane is the fact that you've got a lot of warm water near the surface of the ocean that is transferring heat into the air, and that's what's moving up, and that is a big part of then what's propelling the entire bigger storm system.

Ice - encrusted Europa is the most likely moon in the entire solar system to have harbored life, perhaps in oceans beneath the icy surface.

However, this was the first, comprehensive, large - scale study of the influence of an entire offshore reef system on ocean wave transmission.

What we see as a mere light in the sea is a phenomenon occurring in nearly all the organisms living in the seas and oceans, from bacteria to large fish, and which impacts the behaviour and dynamics of the entire system.

One of the most important lessons Professor Todd shares in Life in the World's Oceans is why it's so important to consider the ocean environment as an entire system.

We can look carefully at one sample to examine the health of the entire system — such as testing a drop of water to assess the ocean.

His recent works include «Pacific Ocean Water Colors,» a series of paintings created using the currents of the Pacific Ocean, and «The Voice,» a five - channel audio installation commissioned for the Singapore Biennale 2013, where his poetry was narrated by Carolyn Hopkins, a voice actress whose announcements are used for the entire New York City subway system and most airports worldwide.

This is a global affect that unfolds and gets increasingly more expensive for the entire human race, but also we must consider the costs to the economic system itself, oceans, land, air.

---- excerpt ---- «The Amery Ice Shelf Ocean Research (AMISOR) project is part of a broad umbrella study of the entire Lambert Glacier Basin, Amery Ice Shelf system (located between Mawson and Davis in East Antarctica), to understand both the climatic history of the region, and its probable response to global warming.

Underlying this entire context is the fact that we have not yet seen the equilibrium response or Earth system response from 350 to 400 ppm of CO2 — since the oceans are warming and ice is melting and the seas rising.

Have that same volcano go off at the bottom of the ocean and almost all the energy released from the mantel is still within the earths system, accumalating every day for the entire period.

Crucially, the entire AMOC system depends on cool, dense water «overturning» in the northwest Atlantic Ocean.

Primary producers — plant life and ocean phytoplankton — play an integral part of the Earth system; some would say that they drive the entire biosphere.

Think of the baggage / luggage conveyer systems at airports, one blocked piece of lugguage affects & backs up the entire conveyer system, which offsets an even balance, like our oceans, from this iron fertilization!

Natural variability might modulate the flow of energy between parts of the system, such as from ocean to atmosphere, but the «pace of climate warming», as in the general gain in energy (or loss of energy) of the entire climate system, can only be dictated by some external forcing, such as somthing that changes the amount of solar radiation reaching the surface, volcanoes, or changes in GH gas concentrations.

The global water cycle is one of the fundamental elements of the Earth's climate system, involving the exchange of freshwater within the entire ocean - land - atmosphere system.

The net outcome is an increase in the speed of energy throughput for the entire system which offsets what would have otherwise been a slowing down of throughput from the ocean by virtue of the greater energy content in SST (skin).

This leads to the remarkable fact that signals that emanate from the stratosphere cross the entire atmosphere - ocean system.»

A second research team reporting a companion study in the same issue of Nature identified one meltwater system with an ocean outflow that ended in a 130 - metre wide waterfall, big enough to drain the entire surface melt in a matter of days.

identified one meltwater system with an ocean outflow that ended in a 130 - metre wide waterfall, big enough to drain the entire surface melt in a matter of days.

Computer models have shown the slowing and speeding up of the subpolar gyre can influence the entire ocean circulation system.»