Sentences with phrase «expect warmer ocean»

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As Earth's oceans warm, bleaching is expected to increase in frequency.

We might expect that as ocean temperatures warm at higher latitudes more tropical storms could persist farther north.

This may provide insight about what to expect in the future as Earth's climate continues to warm and oceans keep acidifying.

Global warming has made oceans the warmest they've ever been and temperatures are expected to keep rising for decades to come.

Climate modeling shows that the trends of warming ocean temperatures, stronger winds and increasingly strong upwelling events are expected to continue in the coming years as carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere increase.

Over the course of coming decades, though, trade wind speed is expected to decrease from global warming, Thunell says, and the result will be less phytoplankton production at the surface and less oxygen utilization at depth, causing a concomitant increase in the ocean's oxygen content.

Scientists know that a warming climate can be expected to gradually sap oceans of oxygen, leaving fish, crabs, squid, sea stars, and other marine life struggling to breathe.

«A fundamental question has been whether we can directly link expansion of harmful algal blooms to a warming ocean; this paper provides critical, quantitative evidence for just that trend, confirming an expected, but difficult to test, direct link between toxic blooms to climate,» said Dr. Raphael Kudela, Professor of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, a national toxic algae expert who was not part of the socean; this paper provides critical, quantitative evidence for just that trend, confirming an expected, but difficult to test, direct link between toxic blooms to climate,» said Dr. Raphael Kudela, Professor of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, a national toxic algae expert who was not part of the sOcean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, a national toxic algae expert who was not part of the study.

What scientists discovered in 2014 is that since the turn of the century, oceans have been absorbing more of global warming's heat and energy than would normally be expected, helping to slow rates of warming on land.

«This kind of study discusses the natural cycle and could help define the likely positive feedbacks we can expect in the long - term future, [for example] as temperatures warm, the ocean will want to give up more CO2, or rather absorb less,» says climatologist Gavin Schmidt of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies.

I expect the rate of warming to proceed at a steady pace, about one and a half degrees over land in the next 50 years, less if the oceans are included.

As the largest contributor is ocean thermal expansion, warmer than expected temperatures would be a significant part of the discrepancy.

Sea level rise this century was expected to be primarily from warming oceans, but glacier and ice sheet melt may pass warming mid-century.

In fact we expect human greenhouse gas emissions to cause more warming than we've thus far seen, due to the thermal inertia of the oceans (the time it takes to heat them).

While the Alps could lose anything between 75 percent and 90 percent of their glacial ice by the end of the century, Greenland's glaciers — which have the potential to raise global sea levels by up to 20 feet — are expected to melt faster as their exposure to warm ocean water increases.

Due to a combination of the warm phase of the solar cycle and an overdue switch to El Niño - when the ocean gives up a lot of heat to the atmosphere, near - future warming is expected.

From his own research in chemical oceanography, along with data from a number of recent studies, Weber points out that some negative consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and warming «are manifesting faster than previously predicted,» including ocean acidification and oxygen loss, which are expected to affect «a large fraction of marine species if current trends continue unchecked.»

If more of the heat from global warming is going into the ocean, does that reduce the amount of surface warming (both transiently and long - term) that we should expect from doubling CO2?

Around 3 million years ago, when global temperatures were about as warm as they're expected to be later this century, oceans were dozens of feet higher than today.

You've got the radiative physics, the measurements of ocean temperature and land temperature, the changes in ocean heat content (Hint — upwards, whereas if if was just a matter of circulation moving heat around you might expect something more simple) and of course observed predictions such as stratospheric cooling which you don't get when warming occurs from oceanic circulation.

He later continued: «Now that ocean temperatures are considerably warmer than they were a few decades ago, the maximum potential intensity a hurricane can reach is higher, and we should expect to see a few Patricias sprinkled among the inevitable phalanxes of major hurricanes that will assault our shores in the coming decades.»

The cyclical El Niño weather pattern, characterized in part by warm ocean water, began in fall 2015 and is expected to last well into 2016.

It hosts several musical festivals in the warm months, which are long — from about March to October, you can expect warm sunny days with no rain, and a pleasant cool ocean breeze in the evening.

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.

But I thought that the lower atmosphere was expected to warm faster than the surface (when comparing global, land + ocean trends).

However, the ocean is very strongly stratified, and the interaction with the bulk of the deep cold water is very slow — it is generally the upper ocean that determines the time scale for the transient warming we might expect.

So there seem to many reasons to expect temperatures at the bottom of the ESAS and other parts of the Arctic Ocean to warm in the coming years and decades.

«The global annual temperature for combined land and ocean surfaces for 2007 is expected to be near 58.0 °F and would be the fifth warmest since records began in 1880.

Soundbite version: «Global warming is expected to increase sea surface temperatures, create a thicker and warmer ocean surface layer, and increase the moisture in the atmosphere over the oceans — all conditions that should lead to a general increase in hurricane intensity and maybe frequency.»

The paleoclimate record (8.2 kyr, and earlier «large lake collapses») shows a dramatic drop in surface temperatures for a substantial period of time when the ocean circulation shuts off or changes, but is that actually what would be expected under these warming conditions?

«The climate patterns responsible for the expected above - normal 2007 hurricane season continue to be the ongoing multi-decadal signal (the set of oceanic and atmospheric conditions that have spawned increased Atlantic hurricane activity since 1995), warmer - than - normal sea surface temperatures in key areas of the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, and the El Nino / La Nina cycle»

Another example would be the data showing some expected warming in the surface / mid layers of the oceans as reported by Levitus et.

It discusses the only the impact of the ocean on rates of warming and how that reduced expected trends in Antarctica with respect to earlier simulations that did not include such effects.

Certainly future ocean warming from increasing levels of greenhouse gases is reasonable to expect.

SAT in zones of deep ocean mixed layers is expected to warm more slowly than average, precisely because the energy is warming the deeper ocean layers instead of the surface.

-LRB-......)(due to) methane release from the Arctic Ocean — Sam Carana expects up to 20 C warming by 2050.

I'm not sure I totally understand this post, but if the ocean has cooled slightly as part of natural fluctuation «noise,» and if last year's hurricane season (with Katrina, et al.) happened during this natural cooling fluctuation, and if the ocean is on a general track of getting warmer, then we probably have much much worse to expect in future hurricanes....

Global warming is expected to reduce the ocean's ability to absorb CO2, leaving more in the atmosphere... which will lead to even higher temperatures as below from NASA.

Thus one might expect larger hurricanes to extend the interval between hurricanes over the patches of ocean that spawn them, because they don't spawn until the sea surface warms sufficiently again.

IF cool deep sea water were mixed relentlessly with surface water by some engineering method --(e.g. lots of wave operated pumps and 800m pipes) could that enouromous cool reservoir of water a) mitigate the thermal expansion of the oceans because of the differential in thermal expansion of cold and warm water, and b) cool the atmosphere enough to reduce the other wise expected effects of global warming?

This means that warmer seas are expected to lead to less productive oceans — something which is not proof of anything changing with regard to the THC or wider ocean circulation.

It is logical to expect that, as atmospheric greenhouse gases increase and the world warms up, the extra energy in the atmosphere and oceans will move things around in unusual ways for which we are not prepared.

No indication that so many viewed the meltoff as proof of global warming and a possible ice - free Arctic ocean arriving much earlier than expected!

Apart albedo, shouldn't we expect a classical water vapour feedback (and so DLF forcing) as arctic ice is melting and arctic seas / ocean warming?

Re # 51: Because of the large thermal mass, the ocean is expected to warm more slowly than the land.

If the Arctic ocean is indeed warming we would expect the sea level to rise.

It seems that those who fear AGW (or at least some of them) do admit that it is not realistic to expect a planetary atmosphere such as ours to warm up oceans of water over the timescale required by AGW theory because of the huge volume and density of that water and thus the heat storage differentials.

Solar forcing has increased over the 20th century and given that the oceans have not yet had time to equilibrate to the new levels of forcing, it must have contributed some to the recent warming, in fact, that equlibration was further delayed by the cooling period, so the unrealized climate commitment would have been greater than ordinarily expected given that most of the increase in solar activity occurred in the first half of the century.

A pattern that we'd expect concordant with world ocean warming and Greenland melt as a result of human - forced climate change.

Greater warming over land and in the Arctic regions, and less warming in the sub-polar oceans, are what we expect from our understanding of climate physics, and this is what we observe.»