Sentences with phrase «from deep ocean layers»

Either this is a truism (the sun must be heating the ocean surface first) or it is meant to take into account the complex circulations that occur in the ocean, like the Gulf Stream's involvement in a vertical rise of waters from deep ocean layers in one region and sinking of the cooled surface waters as the stream reaches its northern limit.

If the energy was rising from the deeper ocean layers then they would be * cooling * but OHC in the deep ocean is also increasing.

Not exact matches

The rising temperatures cause layers of ocean water to stratify so the more oxygen - rich surface waters are less able to mix with oxygen - poor waters from the deeper ocean.

The smoke, from fires deep in Africa, is nearly invisible to satellites in space, and because the southeast Atlantic Ocean has few islands, the layers are hard to study from below.

They compared isotope measurements on the silica skeletons of diatoms, which store environmental signals from the ocean's surface, with isotope signals from radiolarians, which live in deeper water layers.

«In that area, like on the eastern boundaries of other tropical oceans, nutrient - rich waters from deeper water layers are transported to the surface,» explains co-author Prof. Dr. Hermann Bange, also from GEOMAR.

Research cruises such as Tara Oceans and the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition have begun to sample, sequence and analyze the ocean microbiome, from the sunlit surface waters that are mixed by the wind to dark deep layers that relatively unpertuOcean Sampling Expedition have begun to sample, sequence and analyze the ocean microbiome, from the sunlit surface waters that are mixed by the wind to dark deep layers that relatively unpertuocean microbiome, from the sunlit surface waters that are mixed by the wind to dark deep layers that relatively unperturbed.

Donnelly's team examined cores of sediment sampled from two of the salt pond's deepest points, searching for layers that were deposited when storms violently washed ocean sand into the 65 - acre waterway.

In the oceans, warmer weather is driving stronger winds that are exposing deeper layers of water, which are already saturated with carbon and not as able to absorb as much from the atmosphere.

A lot of reseach energy is being devoted to the study of Methane Clathrates — a huge source of greenhouse gases which could be released from the ocean if the thermocline (the buoyant stable layer of warm water which overlies the near - freezing deep ocean) dropped in depth considerably (due to GHG warming), or especially if the deep ocean waters were warmed by very, very extreme changes from the current climate, such that deep water temperatures no longer hovered within 4C of freezing, but warmed to something like 18C.

In colder oceans, the separating layer (thermocline) does not form, or only for parts of the year, so phytoplankton at the top receives nutrients from the deeper sea and provides oxygen for the the upper and deeper layers (as well as nutrients, when phytoplankton decomposes).

This suggestion of an accelerated warming in a deep layer of the ocean has been suggested mostly on the basis of results from reanalyses of different types (that is, numerical simulations of the ocean and atmosphere that are forced to fit observations in some manner).

Scientists also think that the circulation of heat from the top layers of the ocean, which have been most affected to date, to the deeper oceans below may be another factor behind the «hiatus» in global warming.

«The pycnocline (meaning rapid change of density) separates the surface layer of the ocean from the deep ocean.

Water from the faucet represents heat entering the shallow ocean layer, water exiting the drain represents heat leaving the shallow oceans and entering the deep oceans, and the water level in the bathtub represents the heat in the shallow ocean layer.

Gradually, the anomaly spreads from the mixed - layer to the deeper layers of the ocean, thereby increasing the effective heat capacity of the oceans.

Another contributor is changes in ocean circulation which cause less heat is transported upwards from the deeper, warmer layer.

As discussed in the following section, the absence of significant warming in the Circumpolar Ocean of the Southern hemisphere is attributable mainly to the large thermal inertia of the ocean, which results from very effective mixing between the surface layer and the deeper layers of ocean in this reOcean of the Southern hemisphere is attributable mainly to the large thermal inertia of the ocean, which results from very effective mixing between the surface layer and the deeper layers of ocean in this reocean, which results from very effective mixing between the surface layer and the deeper layers of ocean in this reocean in this region.

With the temperature of the deep oceans explained, all the sun is doing is warm the surface layer from ~ 275K to ~ 290K.

To enjoy getting into those claims you would have to consider the impacts of differing rates of advection in the different ocean and atmospheric layers from the stratopause to the deep oceans.

upwelling wind blows, moves water away, causes new water to rise up to replace it brings up tiny ocean organisms, minerals, and other nutrients from the deeper layers of the water.

brings up tiny ocean organisms, minerals, and other nutrients from the deeper layers of the water.

As there is no differentiation in type for the inflows and outflows, also 22 % of the red CO2 is exchanged by natural, colourless CO2, from the deep oceans (we forget for a moment that some of it returns in another season from the ocean surface layer and vegetation decay).

When the ocean surface is cooler, warmth is taken from the surface into deeper ocean layers that «do not emit heat out of the planet».

rw (05:22:03): «The motions of the massive oceans where heat is moved between deep layers and the surface provides variability on time scales from years to centuries.

So we have a surface layer (100 - 200m) warmed from above, deep oceans being their cold selves, and in between the thermocline, the transition from warm surface to cold deep ocean, warmed by conduction from the surface layer above.

I haven't seen any process that can transport large amounts of heat from the surface layer to the DEEP ocean.

Even though there are temperature layers in the ocean, which we used to hide from sonar, the deeper we went, the colder the water got.

So the temperature of the deep oceans (presently ~ 275K) is set by heat from inside the earth before the sun starts warming the surface layer.

The motions of the massive oceans where heat is moved between deep layers and the surface provides variability on time scales from years to centuries.

However, I have repeatedly pointed out that the opposite is also possible because the deep ocean waters now returning to ocean surface could be altering the pH of the ocean surface layer with resulting release of CO2 from the ocean surface layer.

This fresh water, together with melt ‐ water from the melting ice pack in summer forms a permanent superficial layer (usually about 200m deep) of low salinity over the entire Arctic Ocean, without which much less seasonal ice would form.

Right: global ocean heat - content (HC) decadal trends (1023 Joules per decade) for the upper ocean (surface to 300 meters) and two deeper ocean layers (300 to 750 meters and 750 meters to the ocean floor), with error bars defined as + / - one standard error x1.86 to be consistent with a 5 % significance level from a one - sided Student t - test.

On an earlier thread I made a back - of - envelope calculation that, for the deep ocean to «suck» all the heat down from the surface, so that the sea surface layer and troposphere were nowhere more than 3C, the mean temperature of the deep ocean would need to increase only 0.4 C. Maybe someone could check this.

Nor can one be confident that the contribution of subsea volcanic variability to deep - ocean temperature change is negligible in comparison with that from the atmosphere, particularly when the relative densities of the two media and the distance of the benthic layers from the atmosphere are taken into account.

The existence of that cooler layer is evidence that the rate of evaporation is the primary influence on variability in the rate of ocean energy loss (apart from internal ocean circulation variability which is not relevant here) and it follows that more evaporation for the same rate of conduction and radiation (from a stable temperature differential) will send that cooler layer deeper and / or intensify the temperature differential between it and the ocean bulk below.

Of course, if the air were to be warmer than the ocean surface then evaporation would take the extra energy required from the air rather than the water and that 1 mm deep layer (0.3 C cooler than the ocean bulk) would rise to the surface and dissipate but that doesn't happen often or for long.

Since the skin layer usually needs to tap into solar energy deposited deeper in the ocean to make up its deficit, the skin layer will obviously make use of any extra DLR from an enhanced greenhouse effect.

About half of the pCO2 decrease may be due to increased glacial ocean stratification, trapping carbon - rich waters in the deep layers away from the atmosphere (22, 23).

Here is a figure estimating heat content changes for the decade from the 1990 ′ s to the 2000 ′ s showing that the deepest layers of the oceans have also warmed.

It can not do so because the 1 mm deep layer above the ocean bulk and 0.3 C cooler than the ocean bulk below (the subskin) effectively insulates the skin layer from the ocean bulk.

Right: global ocean heat - content (HC) decadal trends (1023 J per decade) for the upper ocean (surface to 300 m) and two deeper ocean layers (300 — 750m and 750 m — bottom), with error bars defined as + / - one standard error x1.86 to be consistent with a 5 % significance level from a one - sided Student t - test.

The inertial chimney: The near - inertial energy drainage from the ocean surface to the deep layer.

On the other side, more UV from the sun has its main effect in the stratosphere, changing the jet stream position, and downward further penetrating / warming the oceans to deeper layers.

Aside from Von Schuckmann & Le Traon (2011), Levitus (2012), Nuccitelli (2012) and Balmaseda (2013), downwards propagation of heat to deeper layers of the ocean have been noted whilst investigating other aspects of climate system.

But let's address the question anyway - do we expect to have seen some obvious indication of heat being transferred from the shallow to deep ocean layers?