Sentences with phrase «found warm currents»

Sensors that have plumbed the depths of Arctic seas since 2002 have found warm currents creeping up from the Atlantic Ocean and helping drive the dramatic retreat of sea ice there over the last decade.

Not exact matches

«Using a numerical climate model we found that sulfate reductions over Europe between 1980 and 2005 could explain a significant fraction of the amplified warming in the Arctic region during that period due to changes in long - range transport, atmospheric winds and ocean currents.

They found that adding five years of strong trade winds created powerful ocean currents that buried the warm surface water, bringing cooler water to the surface.

Schimdt has found evidence that warm ocean currents and convective forces beneath Europa's frozen shell can cause large blocks of ice to overturn and melt, bringing vast pockets of water, sometimes holding as much liquid as all of the Great Lakes combined, to within several kilometers of the moon's icy surface.

The study also found that the warming of the upper 300 meters (roughly 1,000 feet) of the Northwest Atlantic increases salinity due to a change in water mass distribution related to a retreat of the colder, fresher Labrador Current and a northerly shift of the warmer, saltier Gulf Stream.

«When we included projected Antarctic wind shifts in a detailed global ocean model, we found water up to 4 °C warmer than current temperatures rose up to meet the base of the Antarctic ice shelves,» said lead author Dr Paul Spence from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS).

The finding runs counter to current dark matter theories, in part because the temperature measured was warmer than popular theories predict.

The findings indicate some of the likely implications should current trends of rising carbon dioxide and global warming continue.

One of the most outstanding and diverse coral reefs in the world is found in the Ryukyu Archipelago, a group of subtropical islands and islets belonging to Japan and blessed by the warm Kuroshio ocean current.

With oil prices soaring and concerns about global warming and climate change growing, the pressure is on to find new ways of managing the current and future energy supply.

According to current findings, we should expect both Arctic and Antarctic micro-organisms to react to global warming in the same way, the researchers say.

The wind changes were found to be heaving warm currents from deeper waters up into a zone where the Antarctic ice sheet is vulnerable to melt and crumble from beneath — the area where towers of ice sit atop submerged ground.

In the current analysis, Bohr wanted to find out if people's particular political orientations and beliefs about global warming changed at all during periods of so - called temperature anomalies, when temperatures above or beyond the normal are experienced.

Comparing disease statistics with climate data, he found that the outbreaks roughly coincided with El Niño, the warm Pacific Ocean current that brings higher temperatures and rainfall to this part of Peru.

As co-author Professor Peter Cox of the University of Exeter explained: «We found that the current pattern of permafrost reveals the sensitivity of permafrost to global warming.»

Running simulations with an Earth System model, the researchers find that if atmospheric CO2 were still at pre-industrial levels, our current warm «interglacial» period would tip over into a new ice age in around 50,000 years» time.

Natural changes in winds, air pressures and ocean currents were found to be responsible for more than 80 percent of the observed warming during the 112 years studied.

However, Petrenko found that the gradual, natural global warming and rapid regional warming that characterized the deglaciation 12,000 years ago — events that were in some aspects comparable to the current human - driven global warming — did not trigger detectable releases of methane from these reservoirs.

A group of researchers find a new reason for the current hiatus of global warming: the Atlantic Ocean could be keeping things cooler by drawing heat into its deepest fathoms.

The paper's lead author describes his findings thus — «Recent observations suggest the expected rate of warming in response to rising greenhouse gas levels, or «Transient Climate Response,» is likely to lie within the range of current climate models, but not at the high end of this range.

These lagging emissions have an important impact on the battle against global warming, a study released today in the journal Current Biology finds.

Of the brighter and lighter accent colours, 6 are Warm and 4 are Cool so you'll always find something to co-ordinate with your current wardrobe.

The study found that major hot spots for large marine predators are the California Current, which flows south along the U.S. west coast, and a trans - oceanic migration highway called the North Pacific Transition Zone, which connects the western and eastern Pacific on the boundary between cold sub-arctic water and warmer subtropical water — about halfway between Hawaii and Alaska.

Re # 158 (Sashka): I read the document you linked to at http://www.aei-brookings.org/admin/authorpdfs/page.php?id=236 and found out that the $ 5T number you claimed as the cost of Kyoto compliance is not that at all, but is actually Bjorn Lomborg's quote of Nordhaus» figure for how much it would cost to pay for global warming - caused damage in the developing world over the course of the current century if nothing were done to impede the warming.

And as I've also tried to inform you in post # 208, there are two papers that find the 1920 - 30s warming is markedly different from the current warming.

Haeberli, a slim, intense man who could be a younger brother of Max von Sydow, spoke excitedly about one other recent finding that dramatically illustrated the extent of the current warm spell.

Lonnie Thompson, a glaciologist at Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center, recently found that the current warming in the Andes exceeds any warming for at least the past 500 years.

We find that the current Greenland warming is not unprecedented in recent Greenland history.

Nights Aren't Cooling As Much As They Used To Interestingly, the study also found that part of the reason for the 2:1 ratio can be attributed to comparatively smaller numbers of record lows than huge numbers of record highs — indicating that much of current warming is occurring at night, something which is «consistent with years of climate model research.»

Andy, I found the plankton post informative, but I have a concern: IF public understanding of global warming (and potential ways to address it) were at the «A» level, or at least the «B» level, then we'd all have context within which to find these types of things (e.g., the current story) very helpful.

The currents near where the warm anomalies have been found move 180 degrees the other way, and that is going to cause opposing current flow given the earth EMF and that moving conductor.

The article found current CO2 emissions aren't falling rapidly enough to slow global warming largely because most public policy has focused exclusively on developing wind and solar power, which may actually increase emissions.

While international teams of scientists agreed long ago that human activity is the primary cause of current warming, members of the public and some politicians have been slow to embrace the findings.

The current study support previous findings which found that accelerated subtropical warming of the troposphere could shift the paths of rain and snow storms poleward.

The strength of the Icelandic Low is the critical factor in determining path of the polar jet stream over the North Atlantic In the winter the IL is located at SW of Greenland (driver Subpolar Gyre), but in the summer the IL is to be found much further north (most likely driver the North Icelandic Jet, formed by complex physical interactions between warm and cold currents), which as graphs show had no major ups or downs.

They also found that, consistent with my team's research, about 30 % of overall global warming has gone into the deep oceans below 700 meters due to changing wind patterns and ocean currents.

The strength of the Icelandic Low is the critical factor in determining path of the polar jet stream over the North Atlantic In the winter the IL is located at SW of Greenland (Subpolar Gyre) In summer the IL is to be found much further north (most likely the North Icelandic Jet, formed by complex physical interactions between warm and cold currents) These two run under two different regimes and two clocks (see the CET synthesis from 3 harmonics, one for each summer and winter, and one common — see the above link, bottom graph).

Now that these 18 years of no - warming have been «liberated» we can add them to the current 15 years of no - warming and find that there has been no greenhouse warming whatsoever for the last 33 years.

I am not at all surprised to find climate skeptics preferring Mike's description over mine, given that mine tries to fit the current understanding of the impact of rising CO2 on temperature to the data while Mike's uses gross overfitting to show that one does not need CO2 to explain recent global warming.

The current was found to be leaking tropical warm water around the South African cape into the Atlantic.

This is a reference to the finding in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assesment Report (2001) that current global temperatures are «likely» warmer than at any time in the last thousand years.

«Does the current global warming signal reflect a natural cycle»... We found 342 natural warming events (NWEs) corresponding to this definition, distributed over the past 250,000 years....

We are working on finding a plausible cause; however, this expansionist migratory behavior is not exclusive of Columbina passerina and it fairly illustrates that the current behavior of territorial expansion of many species is happening on both ways, from warm to colder regions and vice versa.

You can't deduce anything using heat conduction from warm waters above because you'll find it's so tiny that would take ~ 125,000 years to warm / cool the depths to same as surface following a surface MST anomaly if there were no currents bringing cold water through, so obviously the actual warming from waters above is 99 % + by fluid mixing.

If the finding holds, does this suggest that warming at a level (say 450ppm) is delayed many decades from current models?

Of course we'll first have to wait till somewhere next month to see the actual publication, but we find these interesting quotes, because the suggested relation between climate cooling and wildfire decreases emphasizes the current risk of wildfire increases in an ever warmer world.

But always the current warming is happening at least 10 times faster than anything we can find evidence of in Earth's fossil record.

The National Academy of Sciences Report on Climate Reconstructions in 2006 found it plausible that current temperatures are hotter than during the Medieval Warm Period.

This empirical finding contradicts Spencer's hypothesis that cloud cover changes are driving global warming, but is consistent with our current understanding of the climate: ocean heat is exchanged with the atmosphere, which causes surface warming, which alters atmospheric circulation, which alters cloud cover, which impacts surface temperature.

The current global warming industry generates billions of dollars annually for research, which helps to explain why 36 percent consider climate scientists» research findings as being influenced by a desire to «advance their careers.»