Sentences with phrase «from warm ocean waters»

You will surely remember the comfort you feel as you return from the warm ocean waters and walk back up the path to this iconic home.

If these glaciers retreat at a similar rate to what they did in the past decade, 30 of them would disconnect from warm ocean waters by the end of the century with that kind of travel distance, it says.

That's because a current of cold ocean water moves from north to south along the West Coast, cooling the coastal Pacific and removing the threat of hurricanes, which form only when low pressure systems siphon off the energy from warm ocean water.

But Mrs. Thompson, who has been there many times, said advancements in underwater photography have shown the continent's huge west shelf is melting from beneath from warmer ocean water, as well as from warmer air above.

The likely candidates are out - gassing from warming ocean waters, carbon from warming soils, and methane from melting permafrost.

The likely candidates are outgassing from warming ocean waters...» Actually, more CO2 is being desolved into the ocean due the the sharply raised levels.

It remains a bit speculative just what they are, but there are a number of plausible mechanisms: outgassing from warming ocean waters, carbon released from warming soils, methane from thawing permafrost, methane from clathrates in ocean sediment.

«To touch on climate change, the ocean is warming up as a result, and warmer oceans mean bigger and stronger hurricanes since hurricanes get their energy from the warm ocean water.»

Not exact matches

From crab caught off the coast of New England to the succulent salmon found in the cool waters of the Northwest to the tender tuna from the warm shores of Hawaii, there is no shortage of ocean eats in the United StaFrom crab caught off the coast of New England to the succulent salmon found in the cool waters of the Northwest to the tender tuna from the warm shores of Hawaii, there is no shortage of ocean eats in the United Stafrom the warm shores of Hawaii, there is no shortage of ocean eats in the United States.

The Atlantic Ocean surface circulation is an important part of the Earth's global climate, moving warm water from the tropics towards the poles.

These troughs allow warmer and saltier waters from deeper in the ocean to reach the glaciers and erode them.

Any parts of the bed this low are easily exposed to ocean water, allowing the ice sheet to weaken from below as the ocean water warms.

They found glacial fjords hundreds of meters deeper than previously estimated; the full extent of the marine - based portions of the glaciers; deep troughs enabling Atlantic Ocean water to reach the glacier fronts and melt them from below; and few shallow sills that limit contact with this warmer water.

Co-author Dr Gerhard Kuhn, from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany, says: «Our results provide evidence that in the past WAIS retreat was also predominantly caused by melting through warm ocean water.

«The undersides of glaciers in deeper valleys are exposed to warm, salty Atlantic water, while the others are perched on sills, protected from direct exposure to warmer ocean water,» said Romain Millan, lead author of the study, available online in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Ocean currents bringing unusually warm water, for instance, could shift away more from Greenland, or move in closer, he said.

The causes of the warming remain debated, but Liu and his team homed in on the melting glacial water that poured into oceans as the ice receded, paradoxically slowing the ocean current in the North Atlantic that keeps Europe from freezing over.

Two Atlantic Ocean coral species — elkhorn and staghorn — are listed as «threatened» under the Endangered Species Act, and NOAA is considering whether an additional 82 coral species also warrant some level of protection under the law because of threats from warming water, ocean acidification and polluOcean coral species — elkhorn and staghorn — are listed as «threatened» under the Endangered Species Act, and NOAA is considering whether an additional 82 coral species also warrant some level of protection under the law because of threats from warming water, ocean acidification and polluocean acidification and pollution.

Despite slower temperature shifts in ocean waters, ocean life from plankton to fish have begun moving in response to global warming

Driven by stronger winds resulting from climate change, ocean waters in the Southern Ocean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of theocean waters in the Southern Ocean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of theOcean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of the ice.

The El Niño is seen as a red tongue of anomalously warm water stretching from South America and westward in the Pacific Ocean.

Warm water flowing through the Indonesian archipelago from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean influences the climate of the surrounding regions.

If you decouple that ice from where it's grounded — something that currents of warming water, already circulating around the Antarctic coast, could do — then water could flow beneath the inland ice and lubricate its slide into the ocean.

That region, he says, is susceptible to even small amounts of warming and cooling from the atmosphere — and how cold the water gets influences how much or how little it sinks, thereby driving or delaying, respectively, the ocean conveyer belt.

After further analysis of the data, the scientists found that although a strong El Niño changes wind patterns in West Antarctica in a way that promotes flow of warm ocean waters towards the ice shelves to increase melting from below, it also increases snowfall particularly along the Amundsen Sea sector.

Warm ocean water is washing up and melting the ice from below.

But temperature measurements taken off the continent's coast found warm water brewing up from the ocean depths.

Warm ocean waters, driven inland by winds, are undercutting an ice shelf that holds back a vast glacier from sliding into the ocean, researchers report November 1 in Science Advances.

That might include draining away the water that lubricates the bottom of an ice sheet, speeding its progress to the sea, or installing barriers to prevent warming ocean waters from hitting the bottom of such glaciers and hastening meltdown.

It is possible, he adds, that these persistent high - pressure zones may be produced by two well - known oceanographic patterns: La Nina and El Nino in the Pacific Ocean (which mark alterations in warmer and cooler conditions between that ocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the AzoOcean (which mark alterations in warmer and cooler conditions between that ocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the Azoocean's eastern and western equatorial waters) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (which results from weather patterns between Iceland and the Azores).

Ongoing changes in ocean circulation patterns, which are helping to drive warm water from other parts of the sea closer to the Antarctic continent, are also believed to be a major factor.

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.

In hot water Coral reefs have been besieged in recent decades by everything from warming waters to ocean acidification, disease, overfishing and pollution.

As of March 2013, surface waters of the tropical north Atlantic Ocean remained warmer than average, while Pacific Ocean temperatures declined from a peak in late fall.

But scientists increasingly attribute much of the observed grounding line retreat — particularly in West Antarctica — to the influence of warmer ocean water seeping beneath the ice shelves and lapping against the bases of glaciers, melting the ice from the bottom up.

Warmer air temperatures cause more water containing the heavier isotopes oxygen - 18 or deuterium to evaporate from the surrounding ocean.

Warm water is entering the Arctic from the Atlantic Ocean, with the impacts still unclear.

Under normal conditions, the trade winds and ocean currents in the tropical Pacific travel from the Americas to Asia, maintaining a pool of very warm water and a related area of intense tropical rainfall around Indonesia.

Retreating sea ice in the Iceland and Greenland Seas may be changing the circulation of warm and cold water in the Atlantic Ocean, and could ultimately impact the climate in Europe, says a new study by an atmospheric physicist from the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) and his colleagues in Great Britain, Norway and the United States.

But they are very sensitive to changes in ocean chemistry resulting from greenhouse gas emissions, as well as to coastal pollution, warming waters, overdevelopment, and overfishing.

As the ocean warms and fresh water from melting ice increases, scientists have yet to fully know how that will affect fish communities and coral reefs.

The research published in the journal Science Advances predicts that as the oceans warm fish — which appear to be superior predators in warm water — will extend their ranges away from the equator and cause a decline in the diversity of invertebrates such as crabs, lobsters, sea urchins and whelks.

«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).

However, when temperatures warm over the Antarctic regions, deep waters rise from the floor of the ocean much closer to the continent.

A new study led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics has found that wind over the ocean off the coast of East Antarctica causes warm, deep waters to upwell, circulate under Totten Ice Shelf, and melt the fringes of the East Antarctic ice sheet from below.

El Niño occurs when warm water wells up from the depths of the Pacific Ocean and spreads east.

The one - two punch of warming waters and ocean acidification is predisposing some marine animals to dissolving quickly under conditions already occurring off the Northern California coast, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.

Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

This interplay between climate and wind can lead to sea level rise simply by moving water from one place in the ocean to another, said Greene — no warming of the air, or of ocean temperatures required.

If the water remained in the channel, the water would eventually cool to a point where it was not melting much ice, but the channels allow the water to flow out to the open ocean and warmer water to flow in, again melting the ice shelf from beneath.