Sentences with phrase «impact ocean chemistry»

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The team also developed a model to simulate the impact of volcanoes on ocean chemistry.

These alterations could have an impact on the chemistry, and therefore life, in the ocean and on the rest of the planet.

«Scientists know that there is this massive migration, but no one has really tried to estimate how it impacts the chemistry of the ocean.

This study also highlights the impact of fine - scale variation in coastal ocean chemistry on coral reefs.

The area boasts the world's warmest ocean temperatures and vents massive volumes of warm gases from the surface high into the atmosphere, which may shape global climate and air chemistry enough to impact billions of people worldwide.

The team analyzed little studied factors that play a role in ocean acidification (OA)-- changes in water chemistry that threaten the ability of shellfish such as oysters, clams and scallops to create and maintain their shells, among other impacts.

Areas that are naturally more resilient to stressors, such as climate change impacts or changes in ocean chemistry

ref It will also be important to encourage socioeconomic research on the impacts of ocean acidification, the projected timing of impacts, and the ways to increase adaptability and resilience of socioeconomic systems in the face of changing ocean chemistry.

identify where the impacts of acidification on Mediterranean waters will be more significant, taking into account the sequence of causes and effects, from ocean chemistry through marine biology to socio - economic costs.

You can have a differential impact on biology and chemistry, so if you really want to assess what will be the status of calcifying organisms in 2100 there is one part, the chemistry, for which the organisms have no control but for the biology they can perhaps adapt and there might be a way for the organisms to mitigate the negative impacts of ocean acidification.

Cooling of the tectonic plates, and the impact of the ridge flank system on the chemistry of the ocean, are fundamental global - scale processes.

A changing climate could impact the food that we eat, as alterations to the chemistry of the ocean or the world's weather have the potential to make some animals and plants extinct.

Have you ever heard about Ocean - acidification and the following impact on chemistry and finally biology of the Oceans?

The workshop summarized the state of understanding, key uncertainties and next research steps on the shifting chemistry of the oceans and the impacts on species and ecosystems, with a focus on ecosystems of particular interest to humans.

The most indirect impact of all is coming through the global buildup of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which are altering the climate and ocean chemistry with long - lasting repercussions.

Twenty years of accumulating research has shown that we have altered the composition of the atmosphere in ways that could have centuries - long impacts on climate patterns, coastlines and ocean chemistry.

The policy problem is a chain of numbers, each of which can be assigned a clear, unambiguous, unmetaphysical estimated probability distribution: the emissions trajectory, the carbon cycle feedbacks, the climate response, the ocean chemistry response, the ice sheet response, the impacts, these are all quantitative.

The report called for an expanded system to monitor ocean conditions and for increased research into ocean chemistry and the impact that changes would have.

The warmer ocean surface temperatures impact corals and alter coral reef communities by prompting coral bleaching events and altering ocean chemistry.

According to Gobler, «People have traditionally assumed that the problems of fossil fuel burning will manifest themselves at some distant time in the future... The truth is that the 30 % increase in atmospheric and ocean CO2 levels which has occurred since the 19th century has already significantly impacted the chemistry and biology of our oceans.»

A key uncertainty is what the actual impacts of rising temperatures and changing ocean chemistry, including an increase in ocean acidification, will be on a broad range of marine biota and ecosystems.

24: Oceans).135 Acidifying changes in ocean chemistry have potentially widespread impacts on the marine food web, including commercially important species.

For example, understanding the decisions leading to different types of energy use could be useful for developing new behaviors and technologies in the future that lessen human impact on atmospheric composition, ocean chemistry, and climate.

Meteorological measurement and historical record of air temperature is now impacted by change to global wind speed caused by energy removed from wind by wind turbines, and also by impact of human induced change to ocean chemistry.

Understand changes in Arctic ocean chemistry, as well as historical and projected changes in sea - ice extent and the impacts of these changes on coastal communities.

The chemistry - climate models used for the 2006 Ozone Assessment, predict that the Antarctic ozone hole will achieve full recovery in the second half of this century, and that this may have profound impacts on the surface winds and, likely, on other aspects of the Earth's climate, including surface temperatures, locations of storm tracks, extent of dry zones, amount of sea ice, and ocean circulation.

Topics that I work on or plan to work in the future include studies of: + missing aerosol species and sources, such as the primary oceanic aerosols and their importance on the remote marine atmosphere, the in - cloud and aerosol water aqueous formation of organic aerosols that can lead to brown carbon formation, the primary terrestrial biological particles, and the organic nitrogen + missing aerosol parameterizations, such as the effect of aerosol mixing on cloud condensation nuclei and aerosol absorption, the semi-volatility of primary organic aerosols, the importance of in - canopy processes on natural terrestrial aerosol and aerosol precursor sources, and the mineral dust iron solubility and bioavailability + the change of aerosol burden and its spatiotemporal distribution, especially with regard to its role and importance on gas - phase chemistry via photolysis rates changes and heterogeneous reactions in the atmosphere, as well as their effect on key gas - phase species like ozone + the physical and optical properties of aerosols, which affect aerosol transport, lifetime, and light scattering and absorption, with the latter being very sensitive to the vertical distribution of absorbing aerosols + aerosol - cloud interactions, which include cloud activation, the aerosol indirect effect and the impact of clouds on aerosol removal + changes on climate and feedbacks related with all these topics In order to understand the climate system as a whole, improve the aerosol representation in the GISS ModelE2 and contribute to future IPCC climate change assessments and CMIP activities, I am also interested in understanding the importance of natural and anthropogenic aerosol changes in the atmosphere on the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean and climate.