Sentences with phrase «global ocean»

This «acidification» of global oceans is observed as lower pH levels.
The immediate cause is clear: the ongoing rise in global ocean temperatures that comes from climate change.
Change in global ocean heat content between the surface and 2000 meters of depth from 1958 to 2017 (top) and distribution of ocean heat content anomalies in 2017 (bottom).
The process is a key component global ocean circulation system.
This map shows trends in global ocean heat content, from the surface to 2,000 meters deep.
It is a scientific expert advisory group charged with making recommendations for a sustained global ocean observing system for climate in support of the goals of its sponsors.
Global ocean surface temperatures are the warmest since records began.
This movement of air affects global ocean currents and precipitation patterns.
We work with global ocean circulation models to understand issues like the thermal expansion of ocean waters due to global warming or the effect of changing ocean currents on regional sea levels.
Global ocean levels have risen by 4 to 10 inches over the past 100 years.
What are the integrated effects of ocean acidification and warming on ecosystem to global ocean scales?
Three billion people depend on protein from fish, but global ocean biodiversity is suffering due to pollution from land and ocean activities.
That long - term global ocean heat buildup has to be caused by an external forcing like the increased greenhouse effect.
Global oceans provide many vital «silent services» besides being a source of food, and carbon sequestration is one of its most important.
When considering global oceans, it would be interesting to see where variation in energy flux is greatest.
Regular and reliable climate observations with measurement and calculation of principal climatic indices were started only about 150 years ago, when organized and consistent global ocean and atmosphere observation systems were initiated.
Global ocean warming has been underestimated by as much as 58 percent in previous studies, reveals a latest research.
The ratio of these gases in the atmosphere therefore allows for the calculation of average global ocean temperature.
A major feature of Figure 5.1 is the relatively large increase in global ocean heat content during 1969 to 1980 and a sharp decrease during 1980 to 1983.
Figure 2: global ocean heat from 1955 to 2008.
«If these waters no longer sink, it could have far reaching affects for global ocean circulation patterns.»
Gridded daily wind vector and wind stress fields, estimated over global ocean from QuikSCAT scatterometer (referred as DQSCAT) data, have been updated.
A new study has found that turbulent mixing in the deep waters of the Southern Ocean, which has a profound effect on global ocean circulation and climate, varies with the strength of surface eddies — the ocean equivalent of storms in the atmosphere — and possibly also wind speeds.
The Southern Ocean is separated from the remaining global ocean by the surface - to - seabed Polar Front [52], which is a major barrier to dispersal of fauna to and from Antarctic waters [53].
A group of international leaders and scientists has set up an independent Global Ocean Commission aimed at influencing U.N. efforts to preserve the high seas.
Thermohaline circulation, also called Global Ocean Conveyor or Great Ocean Conveyor Belt, the component of general oceanic circulation controlled by horizontal differences in temperature and salinity.
Ocean oxygen levels have been dropping since the 1980s in a pattern consistent with expectations from global warming, according to a new analysis of 50 years of global ocean data.
The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: metagenomic characterization of viruses within aquatic microbial samples.
The PDO is calculated by examining the difference in temperatures of the northern Pacific from global ocean temperatures as a whole in order to isolate changes specific to that region.
bozzza - The differences in the Arctic are perhaps 1/4 the ocean thermal mass as global ocean averages, small overall size (the smallest ocean), being almost surrounded by land (which warms faster), more limited liquid interchanges due to bottlenecking than the Antarctic, and very importantly considerable susceptibility to positive albedo feedbacks; as less summer ice is present given current trends, solar energy absorbed by the Arctic ocean goes up very rapidly.
«New insights into global ocean microbe - virus interactions, drivers of Earth's ecosystems.»
Two other moons of Saturn, Titan and Enceladus, are already known to hide global oceans beneath their icy crusts, but a new study suggests an ocean exists on Dione as well.
Changes in mean global ocean pH / pCO2, due to uptake of anthropogenic CO2, will reduce pH (ca − 0.3 to 0.5 units / 500 + µatm), and global warming will contribute to increased sea surface temperature (+1.1 to 6.4 °C), by 2100 [1 — 4,7].
A researcher from the Finnish Meteorological Institute has been participating in a comparison of how well global ocean models respond to the changes to sea ice and close - to - surface water.
Yukimoto, S., and A. Noda, 2003: Improvements of the Meteorological Research Institute Global Ocean - Atmosphere Coupled GCM (MRI - GCM2) and its Climate Sensitivity.
The analysis assumes that the climate - driven human contribution to sea level rise is spread evenly across global oceans, discounting localized effects.
Robust global ocean cooling trend for the pre-industrial Common Era.
Similarly, the long term trend of global ocean water temperatures is on the increase, emphasizing that El Niño is only magnifying the ongoing warming trend.
The iron deprivation means that estimates of global ocean carbon uptake are probably 2 to 4 percent too high, the group reports in the August 31 Nature.
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