Sentences with phrase «from ocean margins»

However, it was shown that significant amount of DIC and DOC may be exported from ocean margins to the open ocean (Cai et al. 2003).

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For eons, the mineral iron, which once saturated oceans, likely bonded with phosphorus, and sank it down to dark ocean depths, far away from those shallows — also called continental margins — where cyanobacteria would have needed it to thrive and make oxygen.

Although roughly 15 percent of the world's oceans overlie continental margins, these bands suffer from the logistical drawbacks of land and deep sea: inconveniently deep water and uncomfortably complex terrain.

We recognize that atmospheric and Pacific Ocean conditions from beyond our geographical scope influence the coastal margin.

All is Lost, the second feature from Oscar nominated writer / director J.C. Chandor (of Margin Call previously), stars Robert Redford and only Redford as the sole captain of a sailboat that ends up lost at sea after being damaged in the Indian Ocean.

< p style ="margin - top: 0px; margin - right: 0px; margin - bottom: 14px; margin - left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px / normal Arial"> Selfdrive - The drive from Cairns to Port Douglas is well worth taking the time to soak up the serenity of the ocean.

By a very very big margin, the net flow of latent and sensible heat is from ocean to atmosphere on a global basis.

We show that the influx of water into the volume created by this subsidence produces a sea - level fall at locations distant from these margins — indeed over the major ocean basins — that is comparable in amplitude to the syphoning mechanism isolated by Mitrovica and Peltier (1991).»

According to the submission, in geological and geomorphological terms, the continental margin of Canada in the Atlantic Ocean extends continuously from offshore Nova Scotia in the south, along the Grand Banks to the northern tip of Labrador, although each of the three regions has unique characteristics.

The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday that last year was the warmest on record by a wide margin, stoked by greenhouse gases and an El Nino weather event that released heat from the Pacific Ocean.

The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday that past year was the warmest on record by a wide margin, stoked by greenhouse gases and an El Nino weather event that released heat from the Pacific Ocean.

Whereas at the three sites from the central Arctic Ocean an extended to perennial sea ice cover was probably predominant, sea ice conditions were much more variable along the northern Barents Sea continental margin as reflected in the data of Core PS2138 - 2 (Fig. 2d).

a Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and MIS 1 conditions for selected cores from the central Arctic Ocean (CAO), the Barents Sea continental margin (BSCM) and Fram Strait (FS) 36 and Early Holocene (EH) and Middle - Late Holocene (MLH) data from Fram Strait Core MSM5 / 5 -71232).

These cores were recovered from areas characterized by different sea ice conditions today, ranging from perennial sea ice in the central Arctic Ocean to seasonal sea ice conditions along the Barents Sea continental margin (Fig. 1; see Methods for more details).

In developing a scenario for the death of the AAG, the birth of the Southern Ocean, and the transition from Paleogene greenhouse Earth to Neogene icehouse Earth, the neritic record of the northern margin is more in accord with the «Dinocyst biogeographic hypothesis» than with the «Tasman gateway hypothesis.»

In short: methane release from the ocean floor may have caused a weakness in the sediments that contributed to development of these huge dents in the Norwegian continental margin.

While the winter / spring 2008 sea - ice extent has rebounded from the 2007 negative mega-anomaly, the age - class distribution at present is negatively skewed compared to satellite climatology and even the values for 2007, as is ice concentration within the ice - ocean margin that defines extent.

At present, most mass loss from ice sheets occurs at their marine margins, through iceberg production and melting by the ocean.

Josh Willis, a lead NASA scientist for the Jason missions, which measure sea level rise from space and Ocean's Melting Greenland (OMG), is a passionate communicator about human - caused global warming.Come listen to a talk on what his team has found out about the role of the oceans in ice loss around the margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Elucidating such patterns from this and other ocean margin regions, in particular their relationships with oceanographic and climatic variations and shifts in primary production, will be an essential part of the critical task of predicting future trends in both ecosystem biochemistry and trophic dynamics.

It could be evenly distributed in the global ocean causing an almost imperceptable rise in its temperature well beyond the margin of detection error or it could be rejected by more efficient means of transport from surface to space or by a change which prevents it from ever reaching the surface in the first place.

I insist that consideration of relative contributions of carbon fluxes without considering the error margins is an utter nonsense, especially if the difference between two big numbers (uptake and intake from oceans) is a prime concern.