Sentences with phrase «important role of ocean»

Nonetheless, the study provides compelling evidence for the important role of ocean circulation and contributes new insights into the features that characterize the AMO.

We argue that this focus overlooks the important role of ocean acidification as a resource, which can enhance the productivity of algae known to influence the status of kelp forests and coral reefs (i.e. mat - forming algae or mats).

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Plankton plays an important role in the ocean's carbon cycle by removing half of all CO2 from the atmosphere during photosynthesis and storing it deep under the sea — isolated from the atmosphere for centuries.

Unicellular calcifying algae such as Emiliania huxleyi play an important role in the transport of carbon to the deep ocean.

Because large animals play an important role in the ocean food web, «a threat profile focused on the largest species is particularly concerning from an ecological perspective,» said lead author Jonathan Payne, an associate professor in the school of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences at Stanford.

«It is all about getting a much deeper understanding of sharks» ecological role in the ocean, which is important to the health of the ocean and, by extension, to our own well - being.»

Mooney partly focuses on squids because of the important role they play in ocean ecology.

The formation of coastal sea ice, seen here in the Arctic Ocean, plays an important role in driving «overturning circulation» in the North Pacific Ocean.

«This is an important finding because it highlights the role that the rapidly changing Greenland ice sheet plays in supplying nutrients to the Arctic Ocean,» observed Eran Hood of the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau, who studies the meltwater from coastal glaciers in Alaska, and was not involved in the new study.

Previous studies demonstrated that the loss of dissolved oxygen in Earth's oceans, an effect called «marine anoxia,» played an important role in the mass extinction event.

This is an important advance because nutrient uptake is a central property of ocean biogeochemistry, and in many regions controls carbon dioxide fixation, which ultimately can play a role in mitigating climate change.

The urine of a vast army of tiny fish, jellies and shrimpy things may play an important role in the ocean's nitrogen cycle.

These organisms are important because they churn up sediments from the bottom of the ocean, a process known as «bioturbation», playing a vital role in returning nutrients to surrounding water as food for other creatures.

Thus, these «recycling» bacteria play an important role in regulating how much of the planet's carbon dioxide is stored in the oceans.

Instruments on the glider will provide scientists back on shore with a near - real - time view of fine - scale mixing processes in the upper ocean that play an important role in the movement of carbon, nutrients, and other chemicals through the marine system.

Cyanobacteria, a type of bacteria, played an important role in the history of Earth and in ocean processes, including the development of stromatolites (see photograph on page 80).

ref The ocean plays an important role in reducing atmospheric CO2 by absorbing about 1/4 of CO2 that has been released each year into the atmosphere.

Over the period 1984 — 2006 the global changes are 0.28 °C in SST and − 9.1 W m − 2 in Q, giving an effective air — sea coupling coefficient of − 32 W m − 2 °C − 1... [D] iminished ocean cooling due to vertical ocean processes played an important role in sustaining the observed positive trend in global SST from 1984 through 2006, despite the decrease in global surface heat flux.

Moreover, these microbes may comprise up to half the mass of life in the oceans, and so must play an important role in the processes that occur in the oceans.

The so - called «conveyor belt of the ocean» plays an important role in regulating global temperatures and the phenomenon is feared to have serious consequences.

In contrast to the traditional view of anthropogenic organic carbon export and degradation, we suggest that with the increase of wastewater discharge and treatment rates, wastewater DIC input may play an increasingly more important role in the coastal ocean carbon cycle.

Ice shelves are important, because they play a role in the stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and the ice sheet's mass balance, and are important for ocean stratification and bottom water formation; this helps drive the world's thermohaline circulation.

Whether you're sprinting to Paris in the comfort of the Eurostar before embarking on a sunkissed Mediterranean cruise or journeying by steam train on one of the most scenic railways in Britain as part of our Scottish Islands and Faroes cruise holiday, travel by train still plays an important and memorable role in our ocean cruises.

«The Marine Mammal Center is delighted that Dr. Simeone has accepted this critical role,» said Jeff Boehm, executive director of The Marine Mammal Center based in Sausalito, Calif. «Dr. Simeone's leadership in this role will allow the center to expand its important work to save this endangered species and engage with the community on matters of ocean conservation and education.»

Engaging the community in wildlife conservation is an important activity of the Conservation Ecology Centre and the Great Ocean Ecolodge plays a key role in this.

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Purely physical processes like wind - driven mixing can increase the uptake of CO2 by the oceans, but biological processes also play an important role, as does the temperature difference between the air and the water:

Since OHC uptake efficiency associated with surface warming is low compared with the rate of radiative restoring (increase in energy loss to space as specified by the climate feedback parameter), an important internal contribution must lead to a loss rather than a gain of ocean heat; thus the observation of OHC increase requires a dominant role for external forcing.

There are other factors (changes in the natural sources of emissions in a warmed environment, changes in the function of traditional carbon sinks in a warmed environment, tipping points like increase forest fire activity in a warmed environment, etc.) that also play a significant role in the truly important number, which is accumulation of CO2 / e in the atmosphere and ocean acidification.

And I do think there are a number of questions about interpretation of observations, and the details of the climate model experiment (the very large exponentially increasing freshwater fluxes, the low - resolution of the ocean which obscures the potentially important role of wind - driven ocean gyres, etc.).

Water vapour plays an important role, by taking energy at the surface of the oceans when water evaporates.

A new study found that whales play an important ecological role in the discharge of their urine and feces, through which they release nitrogen and iron into the ocean ecosystem.

Others include, the role of the Sun (being the main heat source), the vast oceans which cover over 70 % of the Earth's surface (and the natural factors which determine the storage and release of CO2 back into the atmosphere), water - vapour being the dominant greenhouse gas comprising 98 % of the atmosphere, the important role of low - level clouds which is thought to be a major factor in determining the natural variation of climate temperatures (P.S. Significantly, computer - models are unable to replicate cloud - formation and coverage — which again — injects bias into model).

Sensitivity studies were made to improve the simulation of high latitude temperature and hydrology and thus the thermohaline circulation, an important aspect of the ocean's role in climate.

These previously unrecognized types of dark ocean bacteria may play an important role in the natural cycling of nutrients from the environment to organisms and back, the researchers write in the Sept. 2 issue of the journal Science.

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The so - called «conveyor belt of the ocean» plays an important role in regulating global temperatures and the phenomenon is feared to have serious consequences.

Dr. Moir played an important and significant role in the founding of Ocean Champions, he has been with the organization since its inception in 2003.

Many factors — like the thermohaline circulation, which reverses direction at the poles as warm salty water releases heat into the air and sinks down to the bottom — are heavily influenced by the ocean's salinity, and thus, the movement of freshwater into and around the Arctic plays an important role in shaping both regional and global climate.

Therefore, the finding that surface heat flux is out of the ocean at low frequencies does not demonstrate an important role for the ocean circulation in driving the AMO.

Managing local factors such as the input of nutrients into coastal regions can play an important role in reducing the rate at which dead zones are spreading across the world's oceans (high agreement).

«Greenland ice takes on a new role in the climate change story, not just indicating change and contributing to sea level rise, but possibly playing an important role in destabilizing regional if not global ocean circulation that naturally exchanges heat north - south,» said Jason Box of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, and a study co-author, in an email to Mashable.

But it does play an important role in the global climate and ocean currents, acting somewhat like the radiator and water pump in a car, said Andrew Mahoney, a sea ice geophysicist at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks who was not involved in the study.

Surface freshwater plays an important role for ocean circulation by its influence on the formation of deep water masses.

On account of its ability to absorb and transport enormous amounts of heat, the ocean also plays an outsized role in climate change and is an important factor in the explaining the asymmetric response of the north and south poles to the changing climate.

«Oxygen minimum zones play key roles in ocean biogeochemistry and are an important repository of microbial animal biodiversity,» she said.

By providing outreach to ocean users and by engaging citizens in planning and stewardship efforts, our chapters play an important role in ensuring the long - term success of MPAs.

By providing outreach to ocean users and engaging citizens in planning and stewardship efforts, Surfrider chapters play an important role in ensuring the long - term success of these designations.

Deposition of mineral dust plays an important role in the biogeochemical cycle of the oceans, by providing the nutrient iron, which affects ocean biogeochemistry with feedbacks to climate and dust production (Jickells et al., 2005; Section 7.3.4.4).

ENSO appears to play a major role in east Africa, but it masks the perhaps more important role of the other oceans, particularly the Indian Ocean.