Sentences with phrase «in global ocean»

It could be evenly distributed in the global ocean causing an almost imperceptable rise in its temperature well beyond the margin of detection error or it could be rejected by more efficient means of transport from surface to space or by a change which prevents it from ever reaching the surface in the first place.

The opening and closing of seaways has a profound influence on the distribution of fresh water, nutrients, and energy in the global ocean.

Schmidt, G.A., 1999: Forward modeling of carbonate proxy data from planktonic foraminifera using oxygen isotope tracers in a global ocean model.

Essentially, the study proposes that climate feedbacks could work completely and totally against us, as warm water becomes trapped on top of a layer of colder Antarctic waters due to a near total shutdown in the global ocean conveyor belt, which circulates ocean heat from the coast of Antarctica to Newfoundland.

RE # 80, Steve, the trend in global ocean temperatures would be unaffected by Lyman et al's «Recent cooling of the upper oceans» even if it was correct, and a correction doesn't change that either.

The role of ENSO in global ocean temperature changes during 1955 - 2011 simulated with a 1D climate model.

The Southern Ocean has a vital role in the global ocean circulation system, as it interacts with the deep water circulation in each of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans.

Palmer, J. R. & Totterdell, I. J. Production and export in a global ocean ecosystem model.

sfp, What number of Argo devices do you think will be needed to measure variations in global ocean temperatures of under 0.1 deg C, or any other relevant temperature?

The mean sea level evolution estimated in the global ocean is derived from box - averaged gridded sea level maps weighted by the cosine of the latitude.

The changing temperature and chemistry of the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea are likely changing their role in global ocean circulation and as carbon sinks for atmospheric CO2 respectively, although the importance of these changes in the global carbon budget remains unresolved.

The complexity of the marine carbon and biogeochemistry system and its numerous connections to carbon's atmospheric and terrestrial pathways means that a wide range of approaches have to be used in order to establish its qualitative and quantitative role in the global ocean observing system.

The Pacific, and what happens in local waters in its east and west is the focus of ENSO studies and these phenomena are commonly compared to the march in global temperatures but its what happens in the global ocean that is really important for temperature gain and loss on a global basis.

In addition, internal variability in the global ocean - atmosphere system as well as stochastic atmospheric variability could lead to additional uncertainty regarding future climate variability [54,61,62].

Why has energy been accumulating in the global ocean since the mid-C20th?

What is there is a coherent explanation for the increase in global ocean heat content since the mid-C20th.

My recollection is that my recent statements here either point to the various mechanisms which may explain the hiatus, or to the rather awkward question about where all that energy in the global ocean came from.

«The drop in the global ocean heat storage in the later part of 1998 is associated with cooling of the global ocean after the rapid warming of the ocean during the 1997 — 98 El Niño event (Willis et al. 2004).»

THere is no empirical evidence for any other energetically sufficient forcing to account for the accumulation of energy in the global ocean.

Me — The Wong reference says — «The drop in the global ocean heat storage in the later part of 1998 is associated with cooling of the global ocean after the rapid warming of the ocean during the 1997 — 98 El Niño event (Willis et al. 2004).»

This map shows trends in global ocean heat content, from the surface to 2,000 meters deep.

The accumulation of energy in the global ocean from the second half of the C20th onwards is held by many to be unequivocal evidence that the climate system is in radiative disequilibrium.

It's very hard to see how ENSO could be responsible for an increase in global ocean heat content spanning half a century.

«We are seeing signals of oxygen loss in every ocean basin in the global ocean.»

The immediate cause is clear: the ongoing rise in global ocean temperatures that comes from climate change.

But it does indeed add up to centennial variability in floods and drought and in global ocean and atmospheric heat content.

The estimate of increase in global ocean heat content for 1971 — 2010 quantified in Box 3.1 corresponds to an increase in mean net heat flux from the atmosphere to the ocean of 0.55 W m — 2.

Rignot: Ice sheet melt may influence the formation of Antarctic bottom water, which participates in the global ocean circulation, but this effect should take place over centuries, it is unlikely to be felt in the coming century.

32, 1 - 5, found that over the period 1998 — 2003 the trend in global ocean chlorophyll a was +4.13 % using a maximum 560,247 data points per year.

It did not «cause» the LIA, as indeed, you know the LIA was quite variable, but it made a serious dent in global ocean heat content, and thus, was the doorway to the LIA cooling period that followed.

On decadal and longer time scales, global mean sea level change results from two major processes, mostly related to recent climate change, that alter the volume of water in the global ocean: i) thermal expansion (Section 5.5.3), and ii) the exchange of water between oceans and other reservoirs (glaciers and ice caps, ice sheets, other land water reservoirs - including through anthropogenic change in land hydrology, and the atmosphere; Section 5.5.5).

See the observations in Roemmich & Gilson (2009)-- The 2004 - 2008 mean and annual cycle of temperature, salinity, and steric height in the global ocean from the Argo program.

As if there is no variability in global ocean CO2 uptake and variability with temperature gradients from approximately 90F to 30F.

Furthermore, changes in runoff routing through the Arctic Ocean can regulate the extent to which Arctic tDOM is incorporated into North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) and distributed in the global ocean.

I completed my master's thesis at the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM - CSIC, Barcelona), focusing on a comparative study of picoeukaryotic and prokaryotic phytoplankton diversity in the global ocean.

Like in the global ocean, as the anthropogenic CO2 penetrates the Mediterranean waters, CO2 - driven shifts in the carbonate chemical equilibria occur and seawater pH decreases.

A major feature of Figure 5.1 is the relatively large increase in global ocean heat content during 1969 to 1980 and a sharp decrease during 1980 to 1983.

However, the large - scale nature of heat content variability, the similarity of the Levitus et al. (2005a) and the Ishii et al. (2006) analyses and new results showing a decrease in the global heat content in a period with much better data coverage (Lyman et al., 2006), gives confidence that there is substantial inter-decadal variability in global ocean heat content.

Danabasoglu, G., J.C. McWilliams, and P.R. Gent, 1995: The role of mesoscale tracer transports in the global ocean circulation.

Parekh, P., M.J. Follows, and E. Boyle, 2005: Decoupling of iron and phosphate in the global ocean.

Seasonal rhythms of net primary production and particulate organic carbon flux to depth describe the efficiency of biological pump in the global ocean.

This small warming is likely a result of the natural alterations in global ocean currents which are driven by ocean salinity variations.

Gray believes that the increased atmospheric heat — which he calls a «small warming» — is ``... likely a result of the natural alterations in global ocean currents which are driven by ocean salinity variations.»

«Wildlife loss in the global ocean not as dire as on land.»

«The range of pH and temperature that some organisms experience on a daily basis exceeds the changes we expect to see in the global ocean by the end of the century,» notes Rivest, an assistant professor at VIMS.

Mesoscale eddies in the global ocean work the same way.»

But each year, an estimated 19 billion — with a B — pounds of the stuff winds up in the global ocean.

She said: «Dickinsonia belongs to the Ediacaran biota — a collection of mostly soft - bodied organisms that lived in the global oceans between roughly 580 and 540 million years ago.

CO2 increases not only in the atmosphere but also in the global oceans — this is documented by 10,000 measurements — and very likely in the biosphere.

Examining the output of climate models run under increases in human emissions of greenhouse gas and aerosols, Troy Masters noted a robust relationship between the modeled rate of heat uptake in the global oceans and the modeled climate sensitivity.