Sentences with phrase «in ocean basins»

In some ocean basins, the intensification of hurricanes over time has been linked to rising ocean temperatures.

These experiments provide new insight into mechanisms of past climate changes on Earth, which have been driven in part by tectonic changes in ocean basins and consequent changes in ocean circulation and heat transport.

Rings form in all ocean basins.

We found that the two quantities that correlate significantly and consistently in all ocean basins and seasons are the Hadley cell extent and the high cloud field: when the Hadley cell edge moves poleward, the high cloud field also shifts towards the poles, and vice versa.

I don't take exception with what you're saying about warming, etc, but that limits the dynamics that could be at play, including changes in the ocean basins, tectonics, etc..

Using statistical analysis, the new study shows that even in ocean basins where reduced wind shear plays a role, warming sea - surface temperature is the dominant driver.

This trend of poleward migration is evident in all ocean basins, except the North Indian Ocean basin, in homogenized satellite and so - called «best track» data.

Webster et al. (2005)(Sept. 16) found in all ocean basins «a large increase... in the number and proportion of hurricanes reaching categories 4 and 5.»

As for petroleum, while increased scarcity and demand will spur people to drive less, in smaller cars, it will also guarantee the expansion of drilling farther toward the ends of the Earth and deeper in ocean basins.

Warming is observed in ocean basins; the match with computer models gives a clear signature of greenhouse - effect warming.

In both ocean basins, nesting abundances at local beaches may vary by an order of magnitude.

http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00148.1 Global satellite observations show the sea surface temperature (SST) increasing since the 1970s in all ocean basins, while the net air — sea heat flux Q decreases.

Sea level rise has two primary components: the expansion in volume of seawater with increased temperature and the addition of water in ocean basins from the melting of land - locked ice, including Antarctica and Greenland.

However, ENSO also increased the mean and variability of MHW duration in the northeast Pacific Ocean (Supplementary Fig. 1E, F), the variability of intensity off Western Australia and California (Supplementary Fig. 1D) and the variability of frequency over much of the Tropics in all ocean basins as well as the mid - and high - latitudes in the Pacific Ocean (Supplementary Fig. 1B).

The East Pacific saw two other impressive records: In late August, three Category 4 storms (Kilo, Ignacio and Jimena) spanned the basin, the first time that has ever happened in any ocean basin.

This is the foundation of the Dvorak Enhanced Infrared (EIR) technique [Dvorak, 1984], which is utilized by all tropical forecast offices in every ocean basin to estimate hurricane intensity with geostationary infrared imagery.

These are large rotating masses of water, in each ocean basin, where ocean currents converge at their centre and are forced downwards, taking warm surface water with them.

• What are some other impacts of climatic variability during the MCA / MWP regarding such topics as changes in ocean basin tropical cyclone activity?

Most of the deep ocean warming is occurring in the subtropical ocean gyres - vast rotating masses of water in each ocean basin where near - surface currents converge and are forced downward into the ocean interior.

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

The negative AO phase is characterized by a high - pressure center anomaly over the entire Arctic basin or polar cap and low - pressure center anomalies in each ocean basin in the mid-latitudes.

The positive AO phase is characterized by a low - pressure center anomaly over the entire Arctic basin or polar cap (the region poleward of 60 ° N) and high - pressure center anomalies in each ocean basin in the mid-latitudes.

• To determine full water column distributions of selected trace elements and isotopes, including their concentration, chemical speciation, and physical form, along a sufficient number of sections in each ocean basin to establish the principal relationships between these distributions and with more traditional hydrographic parameters;

The circular pattern in each ocean basin is called a gyre and is created by global winds.

We find that there is a significant oscillation with a period around 60 - years in the majority of the tide gauges examined during the 20th Century, and that it appears in every ocean basin.

The net wind - driven movement of water, known as Ekman transport, creates a bulge in each ocean basin that is as much as three feet (one meter) higher than mean global sea level.

They used an algorithm to count the number of tropical cyclones that formed in each ocean basin in the world of 2080 - 2099, when the assumed SSTs were 2.5 C higher than today's (IPCC A1B scenario).

This implies that at some point within the next decade, there is the risk that the intensity of North Atlantic hurricanes could increase rapidly to the global average (with possibly a concurrent decrease in another ocean basin).

An advection - lateral mixing model of the distribution of a tracer property in an ocean basin ☆ A.B. Arons †, Henry Stommel ‡ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0011-7471 (67) 90051 - 4

They found that there is a consistent warming signal in each ocean basin.

BTW, if the blip in the SST record were due to the bucket / intake transition, would one expect all of the blips in each ocean basin to be in phase?

The medieval warm period and little ice age (whther they are local or global phenomena) are believed to be associated with thermohaline circulations in the atlantic; correct simulation of such long term internal oscillations in an ocean basin requires long term simulations for the ocean for which we don't really have any observational constraints.

Not exact matches

«The study demonstrates a robust century - scale link between ocean circulation changes in the Atlantic basin and rainfall in the adjacent continents during the past 4,000 years,» said UTIG Director Terry Quinn, a co-author on the study.

Deep below the Arctic sits a ridge that splits the ocean roughly in half: The Amerasian basin sits on the North American side, whereas the Eurasian basin lies north of Europe and most of Asia.

The Southern Ocean is unique in that it is comprised of the southern-most sectors of the major oceanic basins.

Examining the distribution patterns of microfossils, Shen's Harvard colleagues have discovered that the marine eukaryotic algae of 1.5 billion years ago occupied only the ocean shallows and not the deeper basins, indicating a smaller oxygen concentration in the atmosphere than exists today.

Other large ocean basins have probably closed and reopened five or six times in Earth's history, and will likely do so in future, he says.

Álvaro Corral of the Centre for Mathematical Research in Barcelona, Spain, and colleagues looked at records of hurricanes from four ocean basins around the world between 1966 and 2007.

«Numerous changes in climate have been observed at the scales of continents or ocean basins.

One of the subtle changes visible in the new data - set is how the Amazon's greenness corresponds to one of the long - known causes of rainfall or drought to the Amazon basin: changes in sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean, called the El Nino Southern Oscillation.

High - speed data lines have merged supercomputers in this way before, but never spanning an ocean basin.

They are derived from the idea that if the ice buttress for one of these big basins in East Antarctica were to go, you might get lots of ice sliding into the ocean very quickly, then sea level stabilizing after that most unbalanced ice is released.

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«We were able to show that storm and ocean wave activity in the Drake Passage, the ocean basin between the Antarctic Peninsula and South America, increases during positive phases of the Southern Annular Mode,» he explained.

«Though humpback whales are found in all oceans of the world, the North Pacific humpback whales should probably be considered a sub-species at an ocean - basin level — based on genetic isolation of these populations on an evolutionary time scale,» said Scott Baker, associate director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center and lead author on the paper.

While there are regional differences in the poleward movement of cyclones, the fact that every ocean basin other than the northern Indian Ocean has experienced this change leads the researchers to suggest, in the paper, that this «migration away from the tropics is a global phenomenon.&rocean basin other than the northern Indian Ocean has experienced this change leads the researchers to suggest, in the paper, that this «migration away from the tropics is a global phenomenon.&rOcean has experienced this change leads the researchers to suggest, in the paper, that this «migration away from the tropics is a global phenomenon.»

«We need to do more studies to be able to determine if this new species, which we are yet to name, only lives in the shallow waters of the western Mediterranean or if it is also found in other deep water basins in the eastern Mediterranean or Atlantic Ocean, for example,» highlights Conxita Àvila.

The study shows that changes in heat distribution between the ocean basins is important for understanding future climate change.

Using supercomputers, the researchers found that this dense piece of ocean floor material (called a lithospheric slab) is slowly sinking into the Earth's mantle and is responsible for the formation of the Lake Eyre Basin, one of the Earth's largest internally drained basins and home to the lowest point in Australia at 15m below sea level, as well as the Murray - Darling Basin, home to the largest river system in Australia.

«Hurricanes form both in the Atlantic basin, to the east of the continental U.S. (that is, in the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea), and in the Northeast Pacific basin, to the west of the U.S..