Sentences with phrase «expect warmer ocean temperatures»

Not exact matches

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

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.

«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.

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

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.»

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»

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.

RIGHT NOW, you are expecting an air mass at an average 289K to more rapidly warm a higher thermal mass of the oceans at an average temperature of 294.2 K.

«Even with just a further 3C of warming — well within the range to which the UN climate science panel expects temperatures to rise by the end of the century — nearly one - fifth of the planet's 720 world heritage sites will affected as ice sheets melt and warming oceans expand.»

I should add that this surface warming from anthropogenic CO2 is expected to increase the temperature of the oceans which can be seen in this graph correlation http://media.web.britannica.com/eb-media/15/106515-004-540A3E17.gif

Researchers analyzed how six tropical fish species might behave in ocean temperatures that are 2 to 3 degrees Celsius (3.6 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than their current habitats — a change that is expected to happen by the end of this century.

Over ocean stretches with a positive SST anomaly air convection is higher (as the temperature difference between the warm sea surface and the cool air higher up in the troposphere is greater), so a higher likelihood for the formation of depressions exists and more precipitation is to be expected.

The predicted continuous warming trend of the ocean surface temperature is expected to favour the growth of smaller phytoplankton cells (picophytoplankton replacing large diatoms) that in turn would also favour small - sized zooplankton species (Li et al. 2009).

The year 2016 marked the warmest ocean annual average temperatures ever recorded, putting corals at risk and foreshadowing what we can expect as climate change continues.

Importantly, these trends can largely be explained by increases in mean ocean temperatures, suggesting that we can expect further increases in marine heatwave days under continued global warming.»

You'll note that the dude is clueless («Since surface temperature ncreased significantly from 1976 to 1998, one would expect the deep ocean to warm too, not because it's absorbing additional heat but because of the that increase in surface temperature.

Loss of glacial volume in Alaska and neighboring British Columbia, Canada, currently contributes 20 % to 30 % as much surplus freshwater to the oceans as does the Greenland Ice Sheet — about 40 to 70 gigatons per year, 66,78,63,57,64,58 comparable to 10 % of the annual discharge of the Mississippi River.79 Glaciers continue to respond to climate warming for years to decades after warming ceases, so ice loss is expected to continue, even if air temperatures were to remain at current levels.

Regional circulation patterns have significantly changed in recent years.2 For example, changes in the Arctic Oscillation can not be explained by natural variation and it has been suggested that they are broadly consistent with the expected influence of human - induced climate change.3 The signature of global warming has also been identified in recent changes in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, a pattern of variability in sea surface temperatures in the northern Pacific Ocean.4

«in proxy data CO2 is correllated with, but lags temperatures; the solubility of CO2 decreases with increasing temperatures; the oceans have warmed, thus it is natural to expect that CO2 has risen as a result.»

While a range of factors can contribute to warmer seawater, both the frequency and severity of these bleaching events is expected to increase in line with global temperatures, as the ocean absorbs much of the extra heat.

Hurricanes form in warm tropical waters, drawing strength from the heat of the ocean surface — that's why they are expected to worsen as sea surface temperatures increase.

The observed patterns of surface warming, temperature changes through the atmosphere, increases in ocean heat content, increases in atmospheric moisture, sea level rise, and increased melting of land and sea ice also match the patterns scientists expect to see due to rising levels of CO2 and other human - induced changes (see Question 5).

That's a key reason surface temperatures haven't appeared to warm as fast as many had expected in the past ten years — although ocean warming has sped up, and sea level rise has accelerated more than we thought, and Arctic sea ice has melted much faster than the models expected, as have the great ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica

And that, combined with the current record ocean temperatures — and faster than expected warming of the ocean's surface layer — means we can expect a continuation of the unexpectedly fast loss of Arctic sea ice and of land - locked ice in Greenland and Antarctica.

Of equal importance is what will happen as the ocean warms, and what kind of changes in ocean temperatures at the surface and at depth can be expected?

Ultimately, the effect of dust upon hurricanes is important because, like ocean temperatures, African dust export is expected to change during the 21st century in response to global warming and changes in African rainfall.

And even though oceans are getting warmer, water temperatures would have to rise more and faster than expected to produce the strongest possible storms.