Sentences with phrase «exchange between the ocean and atmosphere»

A German - Russian research team has investigated the role of heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere in long - term climate variability in the Atlantic.

A study led by scientists at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel shows that the ocean currents influence the heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time scales.

The scientists want to learn more about how heat is exchanged between the ocean and the atmosphere in Antarctic waters.

«But on a larger scale, they constitute sea spray aerosols or sea mist, which plays a huge role in the chemical exchanges between ocean and atmosphere.»

However, it is also very noisy because a small amount of energy exchange between ocean and atmosphere make a big difference to surface temperature.

Heat exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere is mainly mediated by the blowing wind, evaporation and condensation not infrared radiation.

Nevertheless, surface temperatures show much internal variability due to heat exchange between the ocean and atmosphere.

Variations in sea temperatures can reflect shifts in heat exchanges between the ocean and the atmosphere.

The significance of these restraints should be considered by the deniers when they assert that the amount of carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans is so large that exchanges between the ocean and the atmosphere dwarf human production.

Here we present a means to estimate this natural flux by a separation of oceanic carbon anomalies into those created by biogenic processes and those created by CO2 exchange between the ocean and atmosphere.

I have devoted 30 years to conducting research on topics including climate feedback processes in the Arctic, energy exchange between the ocean and atmosphere, the role of clouds and aerosols in the climate system, and the impact of climate change on the characteristics of tropical cyclones.

Note that the gross amounts of carbon annually exchanged between the ocean and atmosphere, and between the land and atmosphere, represent a sizeable fraction of the atmospheric CO2 content and are many times larger than the total anthropogenic CO2 input.

And at the same time there are energy exchanges between the oceans and the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

His research efforts will contribute to a better understanding of vertical and lateral carbon fluxes — the amount of carbon exchanged between the land and the atmosphere, and the amount of carbon exchanged between the land and the coastal ocean — in tidal coastal wetlands.

«Because the ocean is in contact with the atmosphere, there's heat exchange between the atmosphere and the surface ocean,» he said.

The working group on coupled biogeochemical cycling and controlling factors dealt with questions regarding the role of plankton diversity, how ocean biogeochemistry will respond to global changes on decadal to centennial time scales, the key biogeochemical links between the ocean, atmosphere, and climate, and the role of estuaries, shelves, and marginal seas in the capturing, transformation, and exchange of terrestrial and open - marine material.

Analysis of the inclusions also suggests that the way that carbon is exchanged and deposited between the atmosphere, biosphere, oceans and geosphere may have changed significantly over the past 2.5 billion years.

It's broadly understood that the world's oceans play a crucial role in the global - scale cycling and exchange of carbon between Earth's ecosystems and atmosphere.

Understanding the exchange of carbon between the ocean and atmosphere is vital to understanding global climate and its past, present and future variability.

The El Niño Southern Oscillation is an internal phenomenon where heat is exchanged between the atmosphere and ocean and can not explain an overall buildup of global ocean heat.

Hence, relatively small exchanges of heat between the atmosphere and ocean can cause significant changes in surface temperature.

Natural variability is primarily controlled by exchange of heat between the ocean and the atmosphere, but it is an extremely complex process and if we want to develop better near - term predictive skills — which is looking not at what's going to happen in the next three months but what's going to happen between the next year and 10 years or 20 years or so — if we want to expand our understanding there, we have to understand natural variability better than we do today.

«We couldn't account for everything because the exchanges between the atmosphere and the oceans weren't fully understood,» Edward Garvey, Shaw's main researcher on the tanker project, said in an interview.

These changes might influence interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere such as the air - sea gas exchange and the emission of sea - spray aerosols that can scatter solar radiation or contribute to the formation of clouds.

ENSO events, for example, can warm or cool ocean surface temperatures through exchange of heat between the surface and the reservoir stored beneath the oceanic mixed layer, and by changing the distribution and extent of cloud cover (which influences the radiative balance in the lower atmosphere).

ENSO events, for example, can warm or cool ocean surface temperatures through exchange of heat between the surface and the reservoir stored beneath the oceanic mixed layer, and by changing the distribution and extent of cloud cover (which influences the radiative balance in the lower atmosphere).

Volume, in contrast, is crucial in determining the vulnerability of Arctic sea ice to rapid future reductions (since thin ice is much more prone to react strongly to a single warm summer, making single very - low sea - ice summers more likely), and the thickness of the ice determines the exchange of heat between ocean and atmosphere.

But let's get a little more real about that last part, the exchange of heat between the atmosphere and the ocean.

This approximate balance of fluxes is both directions is a reflection of the equilibrium exchange of CO2 between the atmosphere and the ocean / terrestrial biosphere.

Also, seeing as the oceans contain 50 times the co2 of atmosphere, and the huge exchange that occurs between ocean and atmosphere, I would think such an increase would be trivial and difficult to document.

There is such an equilibrium exchange of CO2 between atmosphere and the surface layer of the oceans, and there is the natural equilibrium that most of vegetation first grows and then decays and returns CO2 to the atmosphere.

Huge quantities of carbon are exchanged between the oceans, atmosphere, and biomass.

The findings will help scientists to understand the processes controlling the exchange of CO2 and oxygen between the ocean and atmosphere.

On decadal and longer time scales, global mean sea level change results from two major processes, mostly related to recent climate change, that alter the volume of water in the global ocean: i) thermal expansion (Section 5.5.3), and ii) the exchange of water between oceans and other reservoirs (glaciers and ice caps, ice sheets, other land water reservoirs - including through anthropogenic change in land hydrology, and the atmosphere; Section 5.5.5).

It plays a crucial role in the carbon cycle — the exchange of carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and the oceans — and in the buffering of blood and other bodily fluids.

But as about 150 GtC as CO2 over the seasons is exchanged between atmosphere and biosphere / oceans, a huge part (near 20 %) of the «human» CO2 is replaced by «natural» CO2 each year, thus removing a part of the human d13C fingerprint.

«The turbulent mixing in thin ocean surface boundary layers (OSBL), which occupy the upper 100 m or so of the ocean, control the exchange of heat and trace gases between the atmosphere and ocean.»

Sea ice is an important component of the Earth system; it is highly reflective, altering the amount of solar radiation that is absorbed; it changes the salinity of the ocean where it forms and melts, and it acts as a barrier to the exchange of heat and momentum fluxes between the atmosphere and ocean.

Thus, air - sea gas exchange paired with slow internal mixing in the oceans lead to a disequilibrium in radiocarbon activity between the atmosphere and the ocean, which is known as the Marine Reservoir Effect (MRE).

One the main key surface parameters involved in the exchange of energy between the atmosphere and oceans are: wind stress, surface turbulent latent and sensible heat fluxes.

The exchange of water between the land, ocean and atmosphere is an essential factor driving changes in ocean mass and relative sea level, both of which are important indicators of climate change.

Some time ago, I made an estimate of the deep ocean — atmosphere exchanges to explain the difference in 13C isotope drop in the atmosphere between what was expected from fossil fuel burning and what was observed.

I fully agree that AT EQUILIBRIUM individual molecules of CO2 will exchange between two phases (e.g. ocean and atmosphere) with no net mass transfer.

Investigate how surface exchanges of buoyancy and momentum between the ocean and the atmosphere / cryosphere drive the AMOC circulation across a broad range of timescales from monthly to millennial (i.e., quasi-steady-state).

In some way, that's the engine where all the other variations must be hanged (specially variations in albedo because of clouds - maybe connected with solar cycles as other authors are trying to prove -, variations in albedo because of sea ice extention, linked with the oceanic currents - as in the «stadium wave» that was presented by Curry and others, etc., variations in heat exchange between atmosphere and oceans, and so on.

Sensible heat flux is a phenomenon that allows the Earth to exchange heat between a body of water, most often the ocean, and the adjacent atmosphere.

The paper by Tamisiea et al. (2010) examines how the exchange of water between the atmosphere, oceans, and continents can contribute to the water cycle, load the Earth and change its geoid, and cause the annual variations in relative sea level over the global ocean.

The difference is in timing: the equilibrium between ocean surface and atmosphere is reached in 1 - 3 years half life time, but the deep oceans - atmosphere exchanges are limited in flux and need much longer periods to reach equilibrium (half life time ~ 40 years).

One the main key surface parameters involved in the exchange of energy between the atmosphere and oceans are: wind...

«This is a consequence of variations in heat exchange between the atmosphere and the oceans, and other decade - to - decade changes like variations in solar forcing and the solar dimming effects of pollution and volcanic eruptions,» BoM says.