Sentences with phrase «from ocean cycles»

Now stories will read for the new report, «IPCC blames warming hiatus on cooling from ocean cycles, but says ocean cycles have nothing to do with earlier warming».

And now I'm supposed to believe you when you say «the non-linearity essentially results from the ocean cycles,» and «there must be another significant factor»?

Though, the non-linearity essentially results from the ocean cycles.

Not exact matches

By its very nature, the ocean is downstream from everything which means that a significant proportion of our waste inevitably ends up there, unless we close the loop on our waste cycle and begin producing sustainably.

New research from the University of East Anglia shows that rising ocean temperatures will upset natural cycles of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and phosphorus.

It is great that this cruise departed from the National Oceanography Centre Southampton, which hosts a large scientific community that uses ocean drilling as a key tool to unravel how our planet operates and past climate and tectonic cycles.»

Looking at shifts in Manley's winter temperatures from year to year, he says, gives a good reading of important natural cycles that influence climate, such as changes in ocean circulation like the North Atlantic Oscillation.

Plankton plays an important role in the ocean's carbon cycle by removing half of all CO2 from the atmosphere during photosynthesis and storing it deep under the sea — isolated from the atmosphere for centuries.

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences researchers have developed a statistical method to quantify important ocean measurements from satellite data, publishing their findings in the journal Global Biogeochemical CyOcean Sciences researchers have developed a statistical method to quantify important ocean measurements from satellite data, publishing their findings in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cyocean measurements from satellite data, publishing their findings in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

Instead of going from sky to rain, into rivers, and then back into the oceans in the usual water cycle, it got stuck in Australia, caught up in record - breaking floods and rivers that run backwards into the continent.

And C. finmarchicus is far from being the only animal in the ocean which spends part of its life cycle in deep water.

Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corals.

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.

Using sediment gathered from the ocean floor in different areas of the world, the researchers were able to confirm that as the ice sheets started melting and the climate warmed up at the end of the last ice age, 18,000 years ago, the marine nitrogen cycle started to accelerate.

The resultant steam runs a turbine, and cold water drawn up from deep in the ocean condenses the steam to start the cycle again.

«This finding is a major advance in understanding the natural carbon cycle, gained by applying a new understanding about how the «overturning circulation» of the Southern Ocean works,» said lead author Dr Andrew J Watson from the University of Exeter.

Cracks cover the moon's crust, which suggests it has cycled material from deeper inside, so the carbon - rich debris may have been incorporated into the ice and made it into the ocean, says Bottke.

The ice floating on top of the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas shrinks in a seasonal cycle from mid-March until mid-September.

In a new study recently published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, scientists of Kiel University (CAU) with colleagues from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and international partners from the USA, New Zealand, and Great Britain studied marine benthic shell - forming organisms around the world in relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturation).

«A sort of grand problem in Earth science is to understand the water cycle — evaporation from the ocean, clouds, rain, the formation of ice, the runoff from the land back into the sea,» said Eric Lindstrom, Aquarius program scientist at NASA.

The team analysed samples of volcanic glass from the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans that contained traces of seawater that had been deeply cycled throughout Earth's interior.

Researchers have known for years that diatoms can remove iron from oceans and carbon from the atmosphere, but little is known about how iron is cycled and removed from the Antarctic region.

These same clouds are vital in the movement of large amounts of sulfur from the oceans to land, making the production of DMSP and DMS a critical step in the global sulfur cycle.

A detailed, long - term ocean temperature record derived from corals on Christmas Island in Kiribati and other islands in the tropical Pacific shows that the extreme warmth of recent El Niño events reflects not just the natural ocean - atmosphere cycle but a new factor: global warming caused by human activity.

«If all of the Earth's water is on the surface, that gives us one interpretation of the water cycle, where we can think of water cycling from oceans into the atmosphere and into the groundwater over millions of years,» she said.

The study bolsters the idea that Mars once had a warmer climate and active hydrologic cycle, with water evaporating from an ancient ocean, returning to the surface as rainfall and eroding the planet's extensive network of valleys.

Assistant Professor of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science Robert Spencer and a team of researchers traveled to Siberia from 2012 to 2015 to better understand how thawing permafrost affected the carbon cycle and specifically to see if the vast amounts of carbon stored in this permafrost were thawing and how it w transferring to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

Now, new evidence from a marine sediment core from the deep Pacific points to warmer ocean waters around Antarctica (in sync with the Milankovitch cycle)-- not greenhouse gases — as the culprit behind the thawing of the last ice age.

Climate change is thus inseparable from ocean change, and our ability to understand these changes relies heavily on our understanding of ocean ecosystems and, more specifically, the role of iron in regulating ocean productivity and hence the global carbon cycle and climate.

Water constantly moves through a vast global cycle, evaporating from lakes and oceans, forming clouds, precipitating as rain or snow, then flowing back down to the ocean.

«This decline will need to be considered in future studies of marine ecosystems, geochemical cycling, ocean circulation and fisheries,» add the paper's authors, from Dalhousie university in Nova Scotia, Canada.

From microscopic plankton to species» interactions in the marine ecosystem and from elemental biogeochemical cycling to the consequences for economy and society: The German project BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification) analyses the problem of ocean acidification in its entire spectFrom microscopic plankton to species» interactions in the marine ecosystem and from elemental biogeochemical cycling to the consequences for economy and society: The German project BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification) analyses the problem of ocean acidification in its entire spectfrom elemental biogeochemical cycling to the consequences for economy and society: The German project BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification) analyses the problem of ocean acidification in its entire specOcean Acidification) analyses the problem of ocean acidification in its entire specocean acidification in its entire spectrum.

«With the hydrological cycle projected to change under global warming, impacting upper - ocean stratification and mixing, the results from this study have potentially important implications for understanding future tropical cyclone activity.»

Bromwich, D.H., F.M. Robasky, R.I. Cullather, and M.L. Van Woert, 1995: The atmospheric hydrologic cycle over the Southern Ocean and Antarctica from operational numerical analyses.

They wrote that their comparisons of sea - level pressures, sea - surface temperatures and land - based air temperatures provided «consistent evidence for strong» regulation of temperatures by changes in ocean cycles «from monthly to century time scales.»

The earth absorbs more sunlight during the southern hemisphere summer when the darker (all that ocean) southern hemisphere is pointed more towards the sun This seasonal cycle may be large enough to overwhwlm the warming from CO2 etc for a year or so, thus on a seasonal scale the rise may not be monotonic.

The Past and Future Ocean Circulation from a Contemporary Perspective, in AGU Monograph, 173, A. Schmittner, J. Chiang and S. Hemming, Eds., 53 - 74, (pdf)» Wunsch's publications page is great food - for - thought, I particularly enjoyed his papers on Ice Age changes and the Milankovitch cycles.

The carbon cycle effects of the geoengineering might delay that outcome in the ocean by a few years but wouldn't prevent those outcomes from occurring,» he said.

(Though, since that first episode covered primarily the oxygen cycle, diatoms and algae blooms were just mentioned as the source of half of the oxygen we breathe, as opposed to rainforests, which are important for the rain cycle that gets nutrients from the mountains into the oceans but which are using up all the oxygen they produce.

A continual cycle of heat and moisture is pulled from the tropical ocean and transported around the globe on belts of atmospheric energy.

This finding highlights the need to understand the various cycles that impact heat transfer from the oceans to the atmosphere and back.

About BIOACID: Since 2009, more than 250 BIOACID scientists from 20 German research institutes have investigated how different marine organisms respond to ocean acidification and increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater, how their performance is affected during their various life stages, how these reactions impact marine food webs and elemental cycles and whether they can be mitigated by evolutionary adaptation.

«The previous understanding of the nitrogen cycle was that nitrogen was lost from the ocean only in three regions where oxygen is scarce.

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Retuning coho bring back nutrients from the ocean that the trees need, making this ancient cycle a win - win situation for all.»

If you feel more energetic you can: swim in the ocean, jog or walk along the splendid coastline, cycle part of the scenic route of the Cape Argus Cycle Tour, wind or kite surf at Glencairn beach, explore the hiking trails around Cape Point, surf one of the local breaks, sea kayak around the harbour or past the penguins, sail from Simon's Town Yacht Club, enjoy a round of golf or go for a scuba cycle part of the scenic route of the Cape Argus Cycle Tour, wind or kite surf at Glencairn beach, explore the hiking trails around Cape Point, surf one of the local breaks, sea kayak around the harbour or past the penguins, sail from Simon's Town Yacht Club, enjoy a round of golf or go for a scuba Cycle Tour, wind or kite surf at Glencairn beach, explore the hiking trails around Cape Point, surf one of the local breaks, sea kayak around the harbour or past the penguins, sail from Simon's Town Yacht Club, enjoy a round of golf or go for a scuba dive.

From hiking along trails overlooking the ocean or exploring secret coves, to surfing, paddling, cycling or riding, you can truly choose your own adventure.

Chronicling the artworks — from installation to their encounters with divers and aquatic life — the installation tunes viewers into the rhythm of the ocean and its life cycles, as the structures adjust with the currents and time of day.

Apart from climatic change, other manifestations of human impact in the Anthropocene, from interference in the nitrogen cycle to plastics in the oceans, only add to the grim outlook.

mixed layer is oceanographically absurd is that all sorts of well - observed facets of the ocean go haywire if you assume a mixed layer to that depth — seasonal cycle, C14, CFC's, and for that matter the rate of removal of CO2 from the atmosphere.