Sentences with phrase «half by the ocean currents»

Each summer some of it melts or breaks off and is carried away by ocean currents.

Such accumulation zones are created when large amounts of floating plastic debris are caught by ocean currents and concentrate in the centre of gyre systems.

The researchers also found that larval behavior enhances the persistence of these network connections, when compared to passive transport by the ocean currents.

The cold pool is fed by an ocean current, the Equatorial Undercurrent, which flows toward the islands from the west.

They're getting there by ocean currents and air currents.

As changes happen in the polar regions, they are carried around the world by ocean currents, both at the surface and in the deep ocean.

Although that in itself was initially a mystery, scientists now know these animals release tiny larvae that get carried by ocean currents to different vents, where they settle and form a new colony.

Also, putting it all together to describe heat transfer by ocean currents.

Inspired by the ocean currents, this organic cotton duvet cover and sham radiate hues of blue from wide stripes.

Beach Movement A natural phenomenon on North Island, the beaches migrate around the island in a ceaseless seasonal pattern dictated by the ocean currents.

«At the same time, we can't forget that animals in the Arctic are exposed to a number of other environmental pollutants that are carried northward on the wind or by ocean currents.

WHOI scientists were involved in the recently reported study of rapid draining of glacier meltwater lakes, but WHOI is also studying the transport of carbon sediments by ocean currents.

Even if there is equal warming in the tropics, but the heat is not dissipated to the poles fast enough by the ocean currents, the area of high SSTs will increase and more heat will dissipated by other means like TC's.

From which this came: «Once these glacial rivers pour out into the larger body of water, they're picked up by ocean currents, moving east to west, and begin to circulate there.

Air pollution is rarely linked to water pollution, but the strong links will soon be obvious, just as the surface air movement is influenced by the ocean currents and the temperatures of both.

Also described in the post: surface waters with ENSO - induced anomalies in the South Atlantic should be transported northward into the North Atlantic by ocean currents.

Some of the warm water would be subducted by Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation / Thermohaline Circulation, some would be carried by ocean currents into the Arctic Ocean where it would melt sea ice, and the remainder would be spun southward by the North Atlantic gyre toward the tropics so it could be warmed more by the effects of the slower - than - normal trade winds.

Rising surface temperatures in the last three decades of the 20th century were roughly half caused by man - made global warming and half by the ocean currents keeping more heat near the surface, it finds.

When the QUEphone is ascending / descending it gets pushed around by the ocean currents so it can't be as accurate for locating the source of seismic events as a moored hydrophone array, which is why it's called Quasi-Eulerian.

Surface heat will radiate downwards and also be moved by ocean currents.

The temperature differential of water and air is controlled by ocean currents and circulation and wind.

Polar bears travel south on pack ice, carried by ocean currents.

It's all so complicated but I think there is a fine balance between how much heat is carried by atmospheric currents and how much is carried by ocean currents and that maybe it doesn't take much to change the proportion of which one dominates.

No mention of the effects caused by ocean currents, especially from the NE Atlantic?

The faster rates in marine organisms may occur because dispersal is enhanced by ocean currents.

Or exactly how much heating of the equatorial ocean gets transported to the poles by ocean currents.

Also warming should be more pronounced at higher latitudes, but there is no, repeat no, warming in Antarctica except for the peninsula, where the warming is probably caused by ocean currents, not atmospheric CO2.

Cameron has been studying how and why this energy transport by ocean currents affects the global climate.

1) The enhancement to the hydrological cycle 2) increased advection of energy toward the polar regions, both by ocean currents and of course the atmosphere (there is a large team studying the expanding IPWP and the effects on atmospheric circulation right now).

Perhaps the ice had been thinned by ocean currents that deliver warm water from below, or by the wind, which could generate open water areas.

Relatively warm salty water is pushed upwards by ocean currents moving over a ridge in the Weddell sea.

Variations in SST due to variations in heat transport by ocean currents or diffusion into the thermocline are neglected while contributions by changes in evaporation, turbulent transfer, and surface radiation are estimated as being proportional to the anomalous air - sea temperature difference.

Not exact matches

Every little bit of plastic that gets tossed into the ocean or swept downstream out to sea either sinks or is picked up by currents.

With the global economy «floating on an ocean of credit,» the current acceleration of credit via central bank policies will likely produce a positive rate of real economic growth this year for most developed countries, PIMCO chief Bill Gross writes in his latest monthly commentary, but «the structural distortions brought about by zero bound interest rates will limit that growth and induce serious risks in future years.»

What they've found is a country with pretty colonial towns and cities, miles of golden - sand beaches, an equatorial climate tempered by offshore ocean currents and the mountain terrain to make it spring - like year - round, and an incredibly low cost of living.

A key Atlantic Ocean current that carries warmth into the higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere has slowed down by 15 % since the mid-20th century and hit a «new record...

Examples include the claim that air has weight, 26 the existence of valleys27 and vents28 on the bottom of the sea, ocean currents, 29 and the fact that winds blow in circular paths.30 These are remarkable claims that could not have been directly observed by a bunch on nomadic sheep herders.

Only swim in designated areas in the ocean and are aware of how to escape rip currents, which can pull you out to sea, by swimming parallel to the beach (sideways), until you are out of the rip current and can swim back to shore.

Stroke by stroke, I kept on swimming — unaware of the beautiful, enlightening destination the currents of the ocean would lead me to.

The earth's magnetic field is created by electric currents in an ocean of molten iron at its core.

In studying the way that tropical storms in turn affect ocean currents, Emanuel developed a measure, or metric, of the power released by a storm over its lifetime.

Led by Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist and marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the team found that a small fraction of contaminated seafloor sediments off Fukushima are moved offshore by typhoons that resuspend radioactive particles in the water, which then travel laterally with southeasterly currents into the Pacific Ocean.

A study led by scientists at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel shows that the ocean currents influence the heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time scOcean Research Kiel shows that the ocean currents influence the heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time scocean currents influence the heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time scocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time scales.

Thomsen and his colleagues have discovered that changes in ocean currents triggered by storms raging on the sea surface can alter the release of gas from the hydrate mounds.

«Normally at the ocean floor, at 700 meters depth, what you're accumulating is very fine material» — dust or silt small enough that it could be carried by currents or winds far from land without settling out.

Current simulations suggest that the truncated ice shelf will react to this change by flowing faster into the ocean, which will also lead to more calving.

Antarctica's strong Circumpolar Deep Current circles the entire continent, driven by strong winds called westerlies, which also create the Southern Ocean's dangerous and choppy waters.

The resulting outburst of methane produced effects similar to those predicted by current models of global climate change: a sudden, extreme rise in temperatures, combined with acidification of the oceans.

The panelists emphasized the interconnectedness of the countries» ecosystems, separated by less than 100 miles of sea and situated among ocean currents that Wiley called «a veritable conveyor belt of marine life.»

Sometimes, these threats are exacerbated by natural trends, such as changing ocean currents that help spark harmful algal blooms in waters already loaded with nutrients washed from farm fields.