Sentences with phrase «flips of circulation»

There was suggestive evidence that abrupt flips of circulation had in fact happened in previous times of warmth.

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Today, there are millions of bumGenius, Flip and Econobum cloth diapers in circulation all over the world... so many individual pieces that we've finally lost count.

The coup de grace is likely delivered to the old climate via new winds and an altered greenhouse, but ocean changes may be what sets up the flip to a new mode of operation — and, even more ultimately, it may be continental drift that sets up the modes into which ocean circulation can shift.

In recent decades, much research on these topics has raised the questions of «tipping points» and «system flips,» where feedbacks in the system compound to rapidly cause massive reorganization of global climate over very short periods of time — a truncation or reorganization of the thermohaline circulation or of food web structures, for instance, caused by the loss of sea ice or warming ocean temperatures.

This major change in ocean circulation, along with a climate that had already been slowly cooling for millions of years, may be what led to ice accumulation most of the time — but also to climatic instability, with flips every few thousand years or so between warm - and - wet and cool - and - dry.

A flip - flop of the entire Atlantic Ocean's circulation pattern might have caused the Dansgaard - Oeschger events.