Sentences with phrase «how ocean surface currents»

This model demonstrates how ocean surface currents function in transporting drifting objects on the ocean surface.

Not exact matches

In addition to temperature, wind, and solar radiation data, the Pacific saildrones are measuring how the ocean and air exchange gases like carbon dioxide and oxygen, and they are using Doppler instruments to gauge currents coursing up to 100 meters below the surface.

The researchers use computer models to forecast future ocean conditions such as surface temperatures, salinity, and currents, and project how the distribution of different fish species could respond to climate change.

It represents in a simple way how ocean currents carry warm surface waters from the equator toward the poles and moderate global climate.»

So how our environmental future plays out now is that as the poles melt, the ocean heats, and water surface area increases, atmospheric H2O skyrockets and some time later as the temperature passes through 4 deg C heading for 5 deg C global temperature rise, the ocean currents start to stall.

Sorry Mike, but as I pointed out above, you're ignoring the fast - equilibrium of Henry's law, which sets a fixed partitioning ratio of 1:50 for how much CO2 resides in the atmosphere and oceans respectively at the current mean surface temperature of 15C.

Physically, it is difficult to see how ocean temperatures can cause a consistent pattern of winds high up into the atmosphere while we have a very good physical explanation of how the winds can drive the surface ocean currents and temperature.

It is difficult to see how such a mechanism can function without also raising surface temperatures; but an oscillation in ocean currents might produce such a result.

If the previous models are unskilled at predicting the current hiatus in surface warming and this is really because the warming has gone into the oceans then exactly how long will this take to come back and bite us in the bum?

The researchers also used the data from the Wave Glider to calculate how much energy was transferred from the surface wind to the ocean currents.

Possibly some physical mechanism in the ocean changed - changes in rate of upper and lower ocean turnover, changes in locations of the turnover, changes in ocean currents, changes in the atmosphere affecting how much and where radiation reaches the surface or changing the heat transfer to the ocean, etc..