Sentences with phrase «future warming of ocean»

A new study by NOAA researchers suggests future warming of ocean waters off the Northeastern U.S. may be greater and occur at an even faster rate than previously projected.

Not exact matches

A new study led by the University of Maryland's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) suggests that a warmer Atlantic Ocean could substantially boost the destructive power of a future superstorm like Sandy.

Lead author, Dr Huw Griffiths from BAS says: «While a few species might thrive at least during the early decades of warming, the future for a whole range of invertebrates from starfish to corals is bleak, and there's nowhere to swim to, nowhere to hide when you're sitting on the bottom of the world's coldest and most southerly ocean and it's getting warmer by the decade.»

The rapid northerly shifts in spawning may offer a preview of future conditions if ocean warming continues, according to the new study published in Global Change Biology by scientists from the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, Oregon State University and NOAA Fisheries» Northwest Fisheries Science Center.

When it comes to slowing down global warming, the world's oceans — 70 percent of the planet's surface — may be Homo sapiens» best hope for a stable future.

And, Stevens says, the study doesn't discuss the types of clouds that are thought to be the most crucial for future warming: low - lying clouds over the subtropical oceans, which have a strong cooling effect but may be dissipating as the world warms.

The discovery of genes involved in the production of DMSP in phytoplankton, as well as bacteria, will allow scientists to better evaluate which organisms make DMSP in the marine environment and predict how the production of this influential molecule might be affected by future environmental changes, such as the warming of the oceans due to climate change.

While several studies have predicted that toxic algae blooms may become more common in the future, this is one of the first studies to link the recent intensification of these events to ocean warming.

«The information will be a critical complement to future long - term projections of sea level rise, which depend on melting ice and warming oceans.»

Predicting the effects of future ocean warming on biogeochemical cycles depends critically on understanding how existing global temperature variation affects phytoplankton.

Deep - sea oil exploration will probably release future spills, Solomon says, and global warming could destabilize large undersea deposits of frozen methane, leading to local ocean acidification or oxygen depletion (SN 7/31/2010).

Global greenhouse gas emissions have already committed the residents of the Maldives to a watery future: ocean expansion due to warming has raised sea levels enough to regularly deluge the islands, and melting glaciers will only make matters worse.

«This kind of study discusses the natural cycle and could help define the likely positive feedbacks we can expect in the long - term future, [for example] as temperatures warm, the ocean will want to give up more CO2, or rather absorb less,» says climatologist Gavin Schmidt of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies.

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Future research topics may explore how the distribution of ocean barrier layers around the world may affect storms in a warmer world.

Toby Tyrrell, Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Southampton and co-author of the study, said: «In the future ocean, the trade - off between changing ecological and physiological costs of calcification and their benefits will ultimately decide how this important group is affected by ocean acidification and global warming.

Due to a combination of the warm phase of the solar cycle and an overdue switch to El Niño - when the ocean gives up a lot of heat to the atmosphere, near - future warming is expected.

The findings have important implications in terms of planning for sea level rise, as ever - growing coastal communities might have to plan for even higher ocean levels in a warmer future.

They created a model to determine how temperatures of ocean waters could change shallow reef systems when sea levels rise and climate warms in the future.

While every storm has its own characteristics and quirks, this one being particularly unusual, a warming global ocean means we're likely to see more storms of this strength in future.

Future topics that will be discussed include: climate sensitivity, sea level rise, urban heat island - effects, the value of comprehensive climate models, ocean heat storage, and the warming trend over the past few decades.

Ice - sheet responses to decadal - scale ocean forcing appear to be less important, possibly indicating that the future response of the Antarctic Ice Sheet will be governed more by long - term anthropogenic warming combined with multi-centennial natural variability than by annual or decadal climate oscillations.»

Volume, in contrast, is crucial in determining the vulnerability of Arctic sea ice to rapid future reductions (since thin ice is much more prone to react strongly to a single warm summer, making single very - low sea - ice summers more likely), and the thickness of the ice determines the exchange of heat between ocean and atmosphere.

Certainly future ocean warming from increasing levels of greenhouse gases is reasonable to expect.

I'm not sure I totally understand this post, but if the ocean has cooled slightly as part of natural fluctuation «noise,» and if last year's hurricane season (with Katrina, et al.) happened during this natural cooling fluctuation, and if the ocean is on a general track of getting warmer, then we probably have much much worse to expect in future hurricanes....

Even with these possible issues, it buys us 50 years of economic growth and technological development and a net reduction in the heat content of the ocean, that the future warming must overcome.

There are continuing major questions about the future of the great ice sheets of Greenland and West Antarctica; the thawing of vast deposits of frozen methane; changes in the circulation patterns of the North Atlantic; the potential for runaway warming; and the impacts of ocean carbonization and acidification.

Other forcings, including the growth and decay of massive Northern Hemisphere continental ice sheets, changes in atmospheric dust, and changes in the ocean circulation, are not likely to have the same kind of effect in a future warming scenario as they did at glacial times.

Most simulations of future global warming trends show that northern Europe and the north Atlantic ocean will get colder over time, not hotter as global warming progresses.

But ultimately, what will likely play a bigger role in the future trend of Arctic maximum extents is warming ocean waters, Meier said

The study concludes significant correlation to global warming ocean temperatures continue to increase, and that further studies «this decline will need to be considered in future studies of marine ecosystems, geochemical cycling, ocean circulation and fisheries.»

And the Challenger mission that started 140 years ago will continue to help Will as he now examines how ocean warming affects future predictions of surface climate change.

Apart of course from the amount of greenhouse gases we keep pumping into the atmosphere, there are mainly three factors that determine the amount of warming we will experience in the near future: CO2 climate sensitivity, ocean thermal inertia, and... Continue reading →

The changing dynamics of the Southern Ocean will in turn drive key aspects of our future climate, including how sensitive the Earth will be to further warming and increases in carbon dioxide emissions.

Back in June, the Geneva Association for the Study of Insurance Economics published a report that defines the future direction of climate change science: «Warming of the Oceans And Implications for the (Re) insurance Industry.»

In Northeast Land and Svalbard, the melting waters on the ice caps are the tears of the Earth mourning the future death of men and civilizations as the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere spikes and global warming proceeds rapidly, killing millions of marine organisms, and increasing the acidification of the oceans.

Part of problem is that even with current levels of emissions, the inertia of the climate system means that not all of the warming those emissions will cause has happened yet — a certain amount is «in the pipeline» and will only rear its head in the future, because the ocean absorbs some of the heat, delaying the inherent atmospheric warming for decades to centuries.

At the moment, the oceans are absorbing about a third of the carbon dioxide we are emitting, but scientists are unclear whether it will continue to do so in the future, as the oceans become warmer and more acidic.

The increasing external forcing from GH gases would cause the contribution from anthropogenic forcing to make up ever larger percentages of the warming in future periods when the oceans are releasing more energy to the atmosphere.

We have to consider trends in the heat budget of the oceans and what that portends for future atmospheric warming.

Warmer ocean water made Harvey bigger and dump more rain according to Earth's Future, which flies in the face of a mountain of other studies backing the «consensus» on extreme storms.

Continued warming of the middle and deep ocean could go on for years as a delayed response to warming of the surface that has already happened, and by itself doesn't say much about the future.

She suggests that future shelf stability studies should consider the role of the ocean's influence, like the effects of warm water pulses flowing under the Cosgrove Ice Shelf.

«Our results from this study imply that if future anthropogenic warming effects in the Indo - Pacific warm pool dominate natural variability, mid-ocean islands such as the Mascarenhas Archipelago, coasts of Indonesia, Sumatra, and the north Indian Ocean may experience significantly more sea level rise than the global average,» Han said.

It's very clear (thanks to Steve M, Willis etc) that there are issues with both but given the current hyped claim by the «warmers» that the past effects of man - caused global warming have largely been masked by the warming of the oceans and that unless we reduce CO2 emissions now that we won't be able to mitigate future global warming when this «stored heat» eventually comes back out of the oceans and leads to catastrophic effects, I'm very interested in getting to the punchline of this debate on SSTs.

«a slowdown in the MOC is predicted by our model (and others) for a future world, partly as a function of ocean warming and partly as a function of increased freshening from ice melt and increased rainfall.

There is new information that lack of sea ice causes storms to produce larger waves and more coastal erosion.5 An additional contributing factor is that coastal bluffs that were «cemented» by permafrost are beginning to thaw in response to warmer air and ocean waters, and are therefore more vulnerable to erosion.22 Standard defensive adaptation strategies to protect coastal communities from erosion such as use of rock walls, sandbags, and riprap have been largely unsuccessful.23 There remains considerable uncertainty, however, about the spatial patterns of future coastal erosion.

But the future climate of West Antarctica is uncertain, and the physical factors that govern the collapse of outlet glaciers like Thwaites are poorly understood — in particular, a peculiar glacier instability mechanism likely triggered by warming ocean waters in a changing climate.

All such projections involve assumptions about the future that can not be tested, so the authors spread their bets: they considered a range of scenarios involving crude population growth, levels of economic growth with time, and a series of predictions of sea level rise, as icecaps and glaciers melt, and as the oceans warm and expand according to predictable physical laws.

During the Ocean Iron Fertilization meeting Dr. Hauke Kite - Powell, of the Marine Policy Center at WHOI, estimated the possible future value of ocean fertilization at $ 100 billion of the emerging international carbon trading market, which has the goal of mitigating global warOcean Iron Fertilization meeting Dr. Hauke Kite - Powell, of the Marine Policy Center at WHOI, estimated the possible future value of ocean fertilization at $ 100 billion of the emerging international carbon trading market, which has the goal of mitigating global warocean fertilization at $ 100 billion of the emerging international carbon trading market, which has the goal of mitigating global warming.