Sentences with phrase «entire oceans of water»

Wendy Panero, associate professor of earth sciences at Ohio State, and doctoral student Jeff Pigott are pursuing a different hypothesis: that Earth was formed with entire oceans of water in its interior, and has been continuously supplying water to the surface via plate tectonics ever since.

Not exact matches

And across all scales, from very small controlled studies of marine plots to those of entire ocean basins, maintaining biodiversity — the number of extant species across all forms of marine life — appeared key to preserving fisheries, water filtering and other so - called ecosystem services, though the correlation is not entirely clear.

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.

According to the study, the west Florida shelf and the entire offshore Texas coast could be on the verge of seeing dramatically high densities of lionfish, based on ocean conditions (water flow, etc.,) which help spread the invasive species and concentrate them to new areas.

The huge increase of radiation and the strong stellar winds that will accompany the process of stellar inflation will destroy all life on Earth and evaporate the water in the oceans, before the entire planet is finally melted.

A series of robotic missions, from Viking in the 1970s to the Spirit rover still roaming Mars today, have observed ancient riverbeds and polar ice caps storing enough water to submerge the entire planet in an ocean 40 feet deep.

«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.

Deep under the ocean on Earth, certain geologically active places have entire ecosystems that thrive in total darkness because hydrothermal vents called «black smokers» supply the needed ingredients in the form of energy - rich chemicals dissolved in superheated water.

As of late 2011, only ∼ 20,000 data points were available in public databases for the entire Arctic Ocean (surface and water column; data from refs.

Source: Lyman 2010 The reaction of the oceans to climate change are some of the most profound across the entire environment, including disruption of the ocean food chain through chemical changes caused by CO2, the ability of the sea to absorb CO2 being limited by temperature increases, (and the potential to expel sequestered CO2 back into the atmosphere as the water gets hotter), sea - level rise due to thermal expansion, and the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere.

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.

It's like trying to get a droplet of water to stand out in an entire goddamn ocean.»

The entire coastline of Durban is popular for its swimming and surfing conditions, coupled with the warm waters of the Indian Ocean.

[8] It includes the entire strip of land immediately adjacent to the ocean, between the water and Sunset Cliffs Boulevard, as well as a larger area of undeveloped park and nature preserve on the south side of the area.

We got a tour of some of the villas and the premium villa offered in the entire resort is called sunset water villa, which contains 2 bed rooms and a huge back deck with unobstructed views of the Ocean.

The luxury retreat occupies an entire private island in the middle of the turquoise and temperate waters of the Indian Ocean.

With one of the Great Ocean Road's finest beaches on its doorstep that disappears into the crystal blue waters of Louttit Bay and the unspoiled rainforests of the Otway Ranges bordering the entire region, it is easy to understand why Lorne enjoys patronage from visitors as diverse as the region.

Local whale biologists have gotten a full set of identification photographs for the entire clan and have determined that two orcas did not survive the winter after they left the Salish Sea of Washington state to hunt in the open waters of the Pacific Ocean.

But now, with the thick worlds of Minecraft everywhere, having water yet no underwater makes Wind Waker's entire ocean seem absurdly flat.

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 water circle with milk paint in the center to me is more abstract — or it could be a miniature of the entire ocean, that is so dried and depleted on the bottom.

They observe an accumulation of fresh water in the entire column of the sub-polar ocean basins, especially at intermediate depths.

The entire North Atlantic is unusually warm right now (+0.6 degrees Celsius) relative to the already - globally - warmed late twentieth century (1971 - 2000) average, and there are large patches of ocean water off the US East Coast that are 2 - 4 degrees Celsius above that average.

If there's no mixing lower (effective diffusivity = 0) that extra energy only has to warm up a volume of water 1/10 as large as the entire ocean.

Fifthly, because the Arctic Ocean is always frigid and full of ice, it is always around the same temperature... that of ice water (ice seawater)... during the entire Holocene.

The specific heat of water is 4 times higher than that of air, so that possesses low water 200 times as much heat energy as the total atmosphere (for the entire ocean, this is even as much as 1200 times).

The Earth's surface is an interlocking mosaic of living ecosystems — of swamps and forests and rivers and lakes and oceans that filter our water, clean our air, and support our entire civilization.

Above the rock, Earth is dominated oceans of water, which cover 70 % of the entire surface area.

The oceans, though, hold much more heat than the atmosphere; e.g. the top 15 cm (6 inches) of ocean waters contain more heat than the entire atmosphere.

However, Earth's polar regions currently experience net precipitation, and the fresh water effect on the ocean density allows the surface to freeze without the need for the entire column of ocean water to reach the freezing point.

Furthermore, the findings might not just apply to organisms like krill in the upper kilometer of the ocean, but also to jellyfish, squid, fish, and mammals that swim even deeper, potentially churning the entire water column.

As outlined by Grebmeir 2015, the productivity in the Chukchi Sea (and likely the entire Arctic ocean) depends on the inflows of nutrient rich waters.

Now, the first 2.5 meters of ocean water have about as much heat capacity as the entire atmosphere, so its detectability there would be as difficult as in the atmosphere, assuming all of it went there instantly (without affecting the atmosphere).

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.

[See comparison map below] The Antarctic landmass is entirely covered by an immense, thick glacier, and this entire continent (consisting of land and glacier) is surrounded by ocean waters that freeze to form sea ice.

The upper 3 meters of the world's oceans hold more heat than the entire atmosphere, so continual ventilation of just 10 meters of warmer subsurface water will affect the global average for decades.

Source: Lyman 2010 The reaction of the oceans to climate change are some of the most profound across the entire environment, including disruption of the ocean food chain through chemical changes caused by CO2, the ability of the sea to absorb CO2 being limited by temperature increases, (and the potential to expel sequestered CO2 back into the atmosphere as the water gets hotter), sea - level rise due to thermal expansion, and the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere.

This fresh water, together with melt ‐ water from the melting ice pack in summer forms a permanent superficial layer (usually about 200m deep) of low salinity over the entire Arctic Ocean, without which much less seasonal ice would form.

This is enough water to cover the entire surface of the Earth (land and ocean) with one inch of rain.

The consequences of this increase range from ocean acidification — excess CO2 lowers of the pH of the water, dissolving the shells of many animals and threatening the stability of entire marine ecosystems — to trapping heat in the atmosphere, leading to climate change.

Only if the oceans freeze across their entire surfaces thereby causing the hydrological cycle to cease or if the sun puts in energy faster than it can be pumped upward by the hydrological cycle will the basic temperature equilibrium derived from the properties of water and the density and pressure of the atmosphere fail to be maintained.

Put another way, just the melting of these icefields has contributed enough water to the world's oceans since 2000 that it would cover the entire US to a depth of 3.3 cm.

1.33 × 10 (24) milliliters of ocean water divided by 8.37 × 10 (23)(total calories) = 1.59 degrees celcius for the entire measureable scale.

There was so much warm water released by the 1997/98 El Niño that the sea surface temperatures for the entire East Pacific Ocean (from pole to pole or the coordinates of 90S - 90N, 180 - 80W) temporarily warmed 0.5 to 0.6 deg C. See Figure 4.

But we argue here that only small (2 nM) increases in the iron concentration in source waters of the upwelling Equatorial Undercurrent are needed to fuel intense diatom production across the entire eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean.