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 atmospher
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 atmospher
in 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.&raq
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.&raq
and just before the emergence of animals.»