Sentences with phrase «flowing out of the ocean»

Increased warming of the cool skin layer (via increased greenhouse gases) lowers its temperature gradient (that is the temperature difference between the top and bottom of the layer), and this reduces the rate at which heat flows out of the ocean to the atmosphere.

The same concept applies to the cool skin layer - warm the top of the layer and the gradient across it decreases, therefore reducing heat flowing out of the ocean.

Adding further greenhouse gases to the atmosphere warms the ocean cool skin layer, which in turn reduces the amount of heat flowing out of the ocean.

Heat flows across differences in temperatures, yet the winter water temperature under the ice is fixed at -2 C. Thus elevated winter air temperatures should actually cause a reduction in heat flow out of the ocean.

Thus, as long as as external forcing is present, the oceans will retain far more energy than the atmosphere, but the GH composition of the atmosphere is the control knob that regulates the overall flow out of the ocean.

During El Niño and warm PDO cycles, Ekman pumping slows and more net energy flows out of the ocean to the troposphere.

So, faster evaporation caused by any increase in downwelling IR probably leads to a faster energy flow out of the oceans despite the potential constraint of Fourier's Law.

So however much DLR is applied from whatever source the rate of energy flow out of the ocean does not change.

Not exact matches

«Very old ice probably exists in small isolated patches at the base of the ice sheet that have not yet been identified, but in many places it has probably melted and flowed out into the ocean.»

«Given that atmospheric rivers over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans appear as coherent filaments of water vapor lasting for up to a week, and that Lagrangian coherent structures have turned out to explain the formation of other geophysical flows, we wondered whether Lagrangian coherent structures might somehow play a role in the formation of atmospheric rivers,» said study coauthor Vicente Perez - Munuzuri, a physicist at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

They report in Global Biogeochemical Cycles that, of the carbon entering coastal waters from rivers and the atmosphere, about 20 percent is buried while 80 percent flows out to the open ocean.

So he set out sensors designed to track water flow along the ocean floor, changes in temperature, and the movement of the crust.

At the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, just off the coast of Maine, a tidal power system built and operated by the Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) draws energy from currents created as 100 billion tons of water flow into and out of the bay.

Seventy billion tons of ice flows out of the Totten Glacier, into the ocean, every year.

The rate of flow of heat out of the ocean is determined by the temperature gradient in the «cool skin layer», which resides within the thin viscous surface layer of ocean that is in contact with the atmosphere.

One year without a net loss also doesn't buck the long - term trend of Greenland losing ice, both from surface melt and from ocean waters eating away at glaciers that flow out to sea.

The rate of flow of heat out of the ocean is determined by the temperature gradient in the «cool skin layer»

Sometimes, you can see lava flowing out of the volcano and into the nearby ocean!

The parking lot has been shifted so it is perpendicular to the ocean and the floodplain has been opened up, so that should a large rain event occur, the lagoon will be able to handle the heavy volumes of water that flow down Redwood Creek and out to the Pacific.

Set right at the ocean's edge, the stunning scene flows over the wide green lawn right out to the turquoise sea and beyond to Anguilla and the poetic mountains of St Martin.

The Great Barrier Reef receives nutrients from the rivers that flow out to the oceans and the keepers of the rainforests continued survival are none other than the birds and animals that inhabit the dark forest.

But much of that ice is flowing out of the Arctic Ocean — and the departure of older thicker ice by that route is one reason this summer will have a lot of open water up North, according to ice experts.

I understand that ocean circulation is complicated but I have been trying to find out how much is known about the flows of underground rivers and where they enter the ocean.

The warming is not homogeneous, and further proof that it is not the atmosphere warming the ocean directly, but GH gas concentrations altering the flow of energy out of the ocean.

It involved a huge amount of data, taken from ocean buoys that take the temperature of the deep sea, along with satellites that measure energy flowing into and out of the atmosphere.

«If it also has heat flowing into rather than out of the oceans during the growth of the warm phase of this mode,»

If it also has heat flowing into rather than out of the oceans during the growth of the warm phase of this mode, that would be even more dramatic news.

Thermal energy lifts water out of the ocean and puts it at higher elevations where it has potential energy which is turned into work as water flows through rivers moving sediments around and such.

If you pump water to this exceedingly remote, freezing place, said Levermann, then in 1,000 years, only about 20 percent of its equivalent will return to the ocean, through the gradual spreading and flow of Antarctic ice out toward the sea under its own massive weight.

Of course as the freshened water flows up and out on the surface of the ocean, it pulls sea water in under the icOf course as the freshened water flows up and out on the surface of the ocean, it pulls sea water in under the icof the ocean, it pulls sea water in under the ice.

With the atmosphere maintaining the warmest level of temperatures on record, that acts like a valve set at a certain point and the flow out is clearly constrained at less than the flow in and so the oceans warm.

To point out just a couple of things: — oceans warming slower (or cooling slower) than lands on long - time trends is absolutely normal, because water is more difficult both to warm or to cool (I mean, we require both a bigger heat flow and more time); at the contrary, I see as a non-sense theory (made by some serrist, but don't know who) that oceans are storing up heat, and that suddenly they will release such heat as a positive feedback: or the water warms than no heat can be considered ad «stored» (we have no phase change inside oceans, so no latent heat) or oceans begin to release heat but in the same time they have to cool (because they are losing heat); so, I don't feel strange that in last years land temperatures for some series (NCDC and GISS) can be heating up while oceans are slightly cooling, but I feel strange that they are heating up so much to reverse global trend from slightly negative / stable to slightly positive; but, in the end, all this is not an evidence that lands» warming is led by UHI (but, this effect, I would not exclude it from having a small part in temperature trends for some regional area, but just small); both because, as writtend, it is normal to have waters warming slower than lands, and because lands» temperatures are often measured in a not so precise way (despite they continue to give us a global uncertainity in TT values which is barely the instrumental's one)-- but, to point out, HadCRU and MSU of last years (I mean always 2002 - 2006) follow much better waters» temperatures trend; — metropolis and larger cities temperature trends actually show an increase in UHI effect, but I think the sites are few, and the covered area is very small worldwide, so the global effect is very poor (but it still can be sensible for regional effects); but I would not run out a small warming trend for airport measurements due mainly to three things: increasing jet planes traffic, enlarging airports (then more buildings and more asphalt — if you follow motor sports, or simply live in a town / city, you will know how easy they get very warmer than air during day, and how much it can slow night - time cooling) and overall having airports nearer to cities (if not becoming an area inside the city after some decade of hurban growth, e.g. Milan - Linate); — I found no point about UHI in towns and villages; you will tell me they are not large cities; but, in comparison with 20-40-60 years ago when they were «countryside», many small towns and villages have become part of larger hurban areas (at least in Europe and Asia) so examining just larger cities would not be enough in my opinion to get a full view of UHI effect (still remembering that it has a small global effect: we can say many matters are due to UHI instead of GW, maybe even that a small part of measured GW is due to UHI, and that GW measurements are not so precise to make us able to make good analisyses and predictions, but not that GW is due to UHI).

And study authors found that 2 C to 5 C warming of local ocean waters with somewhat greater local air temperature increases was capable of flooding these basins in stages — forcing Totten's glacial ice to flow out into the Southern Ocean and provide significant contributions to sea level ocean waters with somewhat greater local air temperature increases was capable of flooding these basins in stages — forcing Totten's glacial ice to flow out into the Southern Ocean and provide significant contributions to sea level Ocean and provide significant contributions to sea level rise.

At that point you try and measure changes in heat content of the upper ocean, more precisely, the flow of energy into and out of the upper ocean by measuring the change in heat content over time.

The salty bottom water flows west and out the bottom of the Strait of Gibraltar into the Atlantic Ocean.

Could the mechanism for breaking out of the LGM set forth in Shakun, et al explain the result about the southern oceans, e.g. that blocking the flow of energy from the tropics to the Arctic by slowing the AMOC increases warming of the Southern Ocean, etc...

Essentially DLR both increases net cooling within SST (int) and increases the energy reserve in SST (skin) but because the two effects cancel out by each varying the speed of throughput equally but in opposite directions there is never any effect on the subskin or the speed of energy flow from the oceans.

6) Secondly that same upward energy gradient caused by evaporation pulls energy out of the heated ocean skin fast enough to prevent the warmer temperature of that skin from slowing down the energy flow from the subskin below.

The biggest flows out of the atmosphere are photosynthesis on land and CO2 uptake by cold ocean water.

A UC Davis researcher is studying whether tiny bits of plastic used in face washes, toothpaste and other consumer products are accumulating in Sacramento - area rivers and flowing out to the Pacific Ocean.

After the powerful 1997 - 98 El Nino, heat flowed out of the tropical oceans in order to heat the atmosphere (evaporative cooling) and the higher latitudes.

They found that the dense, salty water from the Marmara Sea — which leads out to the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas at the other end of the Bosphorus — is flowing out of the strait and along the bottom of the Black Sea, carrying along sediment and nutrients that could be key in providing vital nutrients to remote parts of the ocean.

Being denser than warm water it then sank and flowed out along the bottom of the ocean in deep ocean currents, eventually filling the depths of the ocean basins around the world.

If not, throw them all out and look for something else, like, it snows more when oceans get warmer and more thawed and the more snowfall increases ice volume and more ice weight increases ice flow and the increased ice extent limits the upper bound of temperature and causes cooling.

So you have the ocean radiating 400w and absorbing 50w at the same time for a net flow of 350w out of the ocean.

To get a better understanding of how organic phosphorus and nitrogen contribute to the wider Arctic Ocean nutrient budget, Torres - Valdés et al. measured nutrient loads along the paths of currents flowing into and out of the Arctic Basin.