Sentences with phrase «in ocean and atmosphere»

There is a growing body of data that points to oxygen production and accumulation in the ocean and atmosphere long before the GOE,» said Timothy W. Lyons, a professor of biogeochemistry in the Department of Earth Sciences and the lead author of the comprehensive synthesis of more than a decade's worth of study within and outside his research group.
to distill programmatic lessons from process studies and field campaigns to help current and future observational programs to effectively meet the broader goals of improving the understanding of physical processes in the ocean and the atmosphere and to translate this understanding into improved observational and modeling capabilities.
In the ocean and atmosphere interface the direction and rate of flow is determined by pressure and the volume by the phase changes of water.
Exxon's Richard Werthamer (right) and Edward Garvey (left) are aboard the company's Esso Atlantic tanker working on a project to measure the carbon dioxide levels in the ocean and atmosphere.
Full fluid dynamical properties for every point in the ocean and atmosphere, temperature, pressure, biochemical data, forcing data, etc..
My working theory is that it is a solar amplification mechanism working through changes in ocean and atmosphere — and consequently cloud cover — in response to changes in a control variable.
Clouds responds to changes in ocean and atmosphere circulation.
El Niño events are a result of complex circulations in the ocean and atmosphere.
In this email, Trenberth is bemoaning the lack of monitoring equipment in the ocean and atmosphere around the world that would give scientists more information to help understand exactly how short - term climate variation happens.
For example, Wallace S. Broecker — easily the most vigorous of the geoscientists in trying to alert the scientific community, and author of several Scientific American articles — was awarded the U.S. National Medal of Science by President Clinton in 1996 for «contributions to understanding chemical changes in the ocean and atmosphere
Clouds change in response to changes in ocean and atmosphere circulation - part of the natural variability of the system.
«Here we propose a series of events beginning in the lower latitudes and leading to changes in the ocean and atmosphere that reveal for the first time the anatomy of abrupt climate change,» the authors wrote.
The large scale changes in ocean and atmosphere are everywhere evident especially in hydrology.
As I say — if driven by solar UV as a conteol variable for instance these periods are not precise the same and on Earth they are modified further in ocean and atmosphere circulation.
There are large decadal fluctuations in TOA radiative flux that are caused by these decadal changes in ocean and atmosphere circulation — i.e. the stadium wave.
My interest is to understand reasons for variability in ocean and atmosphere circulation that are the proximate cause of most climate variation over the Holocene at least.
The ensemble members are generated by coupled model breeding and by independent perturbations in the ocean and atmosphere.
Oxygen decline in ocean and atmosphere gets so little that only very few species can adapt or survive at all.
SEE ALSO Algal Blooms, Harmful; Algal Blooms in the Ocean; Carbon Dioxide in the Ocean and Atmosphere; El NiÑo and La NiÑA; Food from the Sea; Life in Extreme Water Environments; Human Health and the Ocean; Human Health and Water; Ocean Biogeochemistry; Ocean Currents; Plankton; Pollution by Invasive Species; Pollution of the Ocean by Sewage, Nutrients, AND Chemicals.
SEE ALSO Carbon Dioxide in the Ocean and Atmosphere; Climate and the Ocean; Geospatial Technologies; Ocean Currents; Ocean - Floor Sediments; Oceanography, Biological; Oceanography, Chemical; Oceanography, Geological; Oceanography, Physical; Petroleum from the Ocean; Submarines and Submersibles.
But for animals to evolve, the concentration of oxygen in the ocean and atmosphere had to be just right.
«This period of extended low oxygen spanning from roughly 2 to less than 1 billion years ago was a time of remarkable chemical stability in the ocean and atmosphere,» Lyons said.
«There is a growing body of data that points to oxygen production and accumulation in the ocean and atmosphere long before the GOE,» said Timothy W. Lyons, a professor of biogeochemistry in the Department of Earth Sciences and the lead author of the comprehensive synthesis of more than a decade's worth of study within and outside his research group.
But the local warming is just part of an intricate set of changes in the ocean and atmosphere across the tropical Pacific, which covers a third of the Earth's circumference.
In an email to his staff last week, Larry Marshall, chief executive of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Canberra, «stated that up to 350 jobs could be eliminated over the next 2 years, including 110 positions in the Oceans and Atmosphere division, the bulwark of CSIRO's climate research,» Leigh Dayton reported in this week's issue of Science.
You and I know we are in a very bad spot with CO2 accumulation in oceans and atmosphere.
For example, in the Oceans and Atmosphere business, CSIRO has approximately 420 staff members.
Energy in less energy out equals the change in energy stored — mostly as heat in oceans and atmosphere.
Energy in less energy out equals the change in global energy storage mostly as heat in oceans and atmosphere.
I brought up ENSO, Jim D, because the forcing chart and AR5 models with - then - without anthro forcing graphs of temperature over time are not reflective of what is actually happening in the oceans and the atmosphere.
The researchers analysed how typhoon strength in the past varied in response to changing conditions in the oceans and the atmosphere.
We are all aware that energy is transported both vertically and horizontally in the oceans and atmosphere.
We know it has radiative properties in the laboratory, but how do they play out in the oceans and the atmospheres?
It includes results from a variety of different empirical approaches, including (1) time series analyses of the published temperature record; (2) examination of the response of the earth's outgoing radiation response to transient climate events; (3) calorimetric studies of the ocean - atmosphere system; (4) mechanisms for secular climate change arising from ocean circulation systems and astronomical influences; and (4) radiative and convective heat transfer in the oceans and atmosphere.

Not exact matches

For much of the history of space exploration on Earth, the powerful rockets used to propel people and cargo to orbit or beyond typically end up in a watery grave at the bottom of the ocean or eventually burning up in the atmosphere.
Taalas said that CO2 remained in the atmosphere for hundreds of years and in oceans for even longer.
In reality, earth science goes far beyond direct climate change research — and includes everything from the health of oceans to the threat of devastating solar storms in the upper atmospherIn reality, earth science goes far beyond direct climate change research — and includes everything from the health of oceans to the threat of devastating solar storms in the upper atmospherin the upper atmosphere.
4) If we took ALL the water from the oceans, ALL the water from the ice, ALL the water contained in the atmosphere and ALL the water from the rocks (which has actually happened in the past), it STILL doesn't flood the Earth.
Some of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is absorbed by water in oceans and rivers.
There are other cycles in nature, such as the water cycle, in which water circulates between the atmosphere and the soil and oceans and rivers.
There is nothing logically self - contradictory in the idea that we and other animals could have existed without requiring food (as angels presumably do) or by getting our nourishment directly from the atmosphere or the ocean (as do some plants).
Located on upper terrace of the hotel boasting beautiful Indian Ocean views, The Sugar Club offers deliciously styled signature tea buffet in a luxurious and relaxed atmosphere.
Nutiva is focused on regenerative agriculture so it can sequester carbon from the atmosphere and oceans, putting it into the soil so the soil can hold more water, use less fertilizer and enhance nutritional elements in foods.
Not a real one, of course, but rather a virtual voyager, a computer model that plumbs the otherwise - inaccessible depths of Earth's anoxic past (or an alien planet's present), exploring the possible chemistry of gases in the atmosphere and ocean that could have occurred there.
Following the maxim of keeping everything as simple as possible, but not simpler, Will Steffen from the Australian National University and I drew up an Anthropocene equation by homing in on the rate of change of Earth's life support system: the atmosphere, oceans, forests and wetlands, waterways and ice sheets and fabulous diversity of life.
When hydrogen and oxygen combine in a planet's atmosphere, they can ignite into a ball of fire and then leave behind liquid water oceans that would be good for life
Forming in the system's colder outer regions, where volatile compounds such as water and carbon dioxide freeze out, makes it possible that the planets incorporated those ices and carried them along to a warmer place where they could melt, evaporate, and become oceans and atmospheres.
«For example, [measuring] chlorophyll a will give you information about how much biological activity is going on, and eventually more information about the concentration of carbon dioxide within the ocean and the atmosphere,» said Yoshihisa Shirayama, executive director of research at the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology in Tokyo.
Co-author Hayley Hung, a scientist with Environment Canada's Air Quality Division who studies toxic organic pollutants in the Arctic, said that in recent years, researchers had posited that warmer conditions would liberate POPs stored in land, ice and ocean reservoirs back into the atmosphere.
«And the transition seemed to occur right around the time that there were very large changes in ocean - atmosphere oxygen levels and just before the emergence of animals.&raqAnd the transition seemed to occur right around the time that there were very large changes in ocean - atmosphere oxygen levels and just before the emergence of animals.&raqand just before the emergence of animals.»
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