Sentences with phrase «how ocean temperatures»

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.

The study analyzes how much temperatures have increased in the region near Indonesia, and how ocean temperatures affect nearby tropical glaciers in Papua New Guinea and Borneo.

On the question of whether or not I offered an independent prediction of how ocean temperature adjustments would work out, there is an objective answer to this question — as I have carefully explained to you here, I did not.

I'm not sure I understand the point of your comment, nor do I see how an ocean temperature relationship correlates reliably with ACE peaks on a global basis.»

Scientists extract core samples from living corals by scuba diving and collecting a sample from the coral skeleton; geochemical analyses of these samples reveals how ocean temperature, circulation, and salinity change over time.

Not exact matches

The recent hurricanes presented a rare opportunity for Lasker and Edmunds to study how corals recover from disasters — an important line of research in a warming world where rising ocean temperatures are stressing reefs.

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.

One of the subtle changes visible in the new data - set is how the Amazon's greenness corresponds to one of the long - known causes of rainfall or drought to the Amazon basin: changes in sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean, called the El Nino Southern Oscillation.

Curtis Deutsch, associate professor at the University of Washington's School of Oceanography, studies how increasing global temperatures are altering the levels of dissolved oxygen in the world's oceans.

«However, studies like ours can help provide informative answers to the more tractable question of how a perfect storm like Sandy would behave under warmer ocean temperatures,» Lau said.

The models must track how carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases cycle through the whole system — how the gases interact with plant life, oceans, the atmosphere — and how this influences overall global temperatures.

Yeh said the team's approach could also be used to study how four or more pharmaceuticals interact, and a similar mathematical framework could be used to better understand climate change (for example, to understand how temperature, rainfall, humidity and acidity of the oceans interact) and other scientific questions that have three or more key factors.

The framework would be useful for solving other questions in the sciences and social sciences in which researchers analyze how three or more components might interact — for example, how climate is affected by the interplay among temperature, rainfall, humidity and ocean acidity.

Comparing layers in the ice - core samples and ocean sediments has allowed researchers to deduce e.g. how the average temperature on Earth has changed over time, and also how great the variability was.

A region's climate rests on many variables: land and sea temperatures, the shape of the landmass, how ocean currents mix globally, even the trajectory of Earth's orbit.

His discoveries have also revealed how warming ocean temperatures and acidification of ocean water caused by climate change lead to coral bleaching and death.

Other researchers are pushing the frontiers of climate modeling, simulating how the oceans, atmosphere and land responded as Pliocene temperatures soared.

Burls» team discovered this phenomenon by modeling how the Pliocene ocean would have responded to higher temperatures.

The visualization shows how the 1997 event started from colder - than - average sea surface temperatures — but the 2015 event started with warmer - than - average temperatures not only in the Pacific but also in in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

Figure shows how ocean currents changes with temperature.

With so many instruments on the Yahtse, researchers have a unique opportunity to monitor changes along the length of the glacier and discover how, for example, local changes in ocean temperature and currents relate to movement further up the glacier.

The experiment of the Kiel marine biologists shows how local environmental factors such as eutrophication may amplify the effects of global factors such as rising temperatures and ocean acidification.

The scientists also studied how environmental factors — such as temperature, water pH, and nutrients — influence the microscopic organisms floating in the ocean.

Cheung and his colleague used modeling to predict how 802 commercially important species of fish and invertebrates react to warming water temperatures, other changing ocean properties, and new habitats opening up at the poles.

«Both of these studies are looking at how [ocean temperature] is changing over time.

In their paper, Rivest and co-authors Steeve Comeau and Christopher Cornwall of the University of Western Australia reviewed almost 100 studies of how predicted changes in ocean pH or temperature might affect coral growth.

To create their estimate, the researchers took the most recent understanding for how rocks, oceans, and air temperature interact, and put that into a computer simulation of Earth's temperature over the past 4 billion years.

Focusing on reef - building corals and other shelled creatures that are threatened by increasing temperatures and ocean acidification, she is testing them to determine how species may acclimatize to the new circumstances.

The system is helping scientists understand how quickly glaciers and ice sheets will melt, and how fast oceans will rise, as temperatures increase

So if cyanobacteria are shaping the temperature of their growing patch of the ocean to favor themselves over cold - water critters, researchers want to know how they are doing it and what to expect next, says climate scientist Sebastian Sonntag of the University of Hamburg in Germany.

NOAA makes these projections based on measurements of the surface temperatures of the world's oceans using satellites, predicting how those temperatures will change.

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

However, Khazendar and Scheuchl said, researchers need more information on the shape of the bedrock and seafloor beneath the ice, as well as more data on ocean circulation and temperatures, to be able to better project how much ice these glaciers will contribute to the ocean in a changing climate.

Another key question is how the production of methane by these organisms is influenced by environmental conditions in the ocean, including temperature and pollution such as fertilizer runoff.

«We know that methylphosphonate cleavage occurs when microbes are starved for phosphorus, but we need to figure out what nutrients are connected to this, and how is that connected to the pH of the ocean, and how is it connected to temperature of the ocean,» Drennan says.

During the past years, scientists have found out how ocean acidification — in some cases combined to other factors such as rise in temperatures, eutrophication or loss of oxygen — affects isolated species.

To officially declare an El Niño, both the ocean temperatures and how the atmosphere reacts to them are critical.

The most recent observations of sea surface temperatures across the tropical Pacific Ocean (top) and how different those temperatures are from normal (bottom).

Discussion requires examination of how the freshwater injections alter the ocean circulation and internal ocean temperature.

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.

Ocean surfaces have warmed considerably over the last few years, and since oceans cover roughly tw0 - thirds of the globe's area, it is reasonable to examine how sea surface temperature evolution has played into the short - term evolution of GMST.

I am also interested in how long is required for the surface temp to «achieve» 95 % of the ECS change: e.g. if climate sensitivity is 2K, how much time is required for the surface temp to increase by 1.9 K; and then how much longer for the deep oceans to increase by 1.9 K (or whatever 95 % of the projected increase in deep ocean temperature works out to.)

A new study details how some coral species are actually moving into new territory as their vulnerable cousins continue to decline with rising ocean temperatures.

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.

Understanding coral responses to thermal stress is important for predicting how corals will fare with elevated ocean temperatures.

At the same time, increasing depth and duration of drought, along with warmer temperatures enabling the spread of pine beetles has increased the flammability of this forest region — http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v1/n9/full/nclimate1293.html http://www.vancouversun.com/fires+through+tinder+pine+beetle+killed+forests/10047293/story.html Can climate models give different TCR and ECS with different timing / extent of when or how much boreal forest burns, and how the soot generated alters the date of an ice free Arctic Ocean or the rate of Greenland ice melt and its influence on long term dynamics of the AMOC transport of heat?

A new paper tests how increasing ocean acidity affects coral growth in the natural environment, where a multitude of additional factors such as light, temperature, and nutrients are important.

There's no satellite in space that's capable of directly measuring ocean acidity, but an international team of scientists writing in the journal Environmental Science & Technology described last week how satellite measurements of sea surface temperatures, salinity and plankton activity could be combined and used to estimate pH.

They need to know: what a GHG is and how the GHE works; the carbon cycle; how climate has changed over the entire geologic history of the planet; how the climate has changed recently (relatively speaking); the main variables of climate like temperature, rainfall, etc.; the role of the sun, atmosphere and oceans on climate.

If mean global temperatures trending significantly upward over the last 100 years isn't worrying enough for you, how about that giant piece of Antarctica that is about to crack off and sink into the ocean... I don't know how the existence of global warming is still a debate!