Sentences with phrase «in oceanic water»

(f) In evaluating the above consequences of the doubling of the CO2, one has to consider the dissolution of CO2 in oceanic water and also that, together with carbon, a part of atmospheric oxygen is also transferred into carbonates.

Focusing on the Permian - Triassic boundary, Gregory Ryskin [1] explores the possibility that mass extinction can be caused by an extremely fast, explosive release of dissolved methane (and other dissolved gases such as carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide) that accumulated in the oceanic water masses prone to stagnation and anoxia (e.g., in silled basins).

«This paper is a good estimate of mercury in oceanic water, but it's only part of the bigger picture.»

Nusa Lembongan, Bali: Mola Mola, usually found in oceanic waters, come close to shore between July and September every year in Bali.

Not exact matches

Kaustubh Thirumalai (Brown University) helping retrieve a CTD instrument, which collects water samples and measures physical parameters of oceanic waters such as temperature, aboard the R / V Point Sur in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Seasonal weather fluctuations also depend on factors such as proximity to oceans or other large bodies of water, currents in those oceans, El Nino / ENSO and other oceanic cycles, and prevailing winds.

«When crust from an oceanic tectonic plate plunges beneath a continental tectonic plate, as it does beneath the Andean Plateau, it brings water with it and partially melts the mantle, the layer below Earth's crust,» said Rice University's Jonathan Delph, co-author of the new study published online this week in Scientific Reports.

Generally speaking, there are two types of crust on Earth: a lighter continental crust that is rich in silicon and constitutes the dry land above sea level, and a denser oceanic crust where water gathers in the form of large oceans.

The Carukia barnesi were then observed in a large, temperature - controlled tank in which the water rotates vertically, simulating local oceanic conditions.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, Ridge 2000 is «an interdisciplinary initiative to study the Earth's oceanic spreading ridge system as an integrated whole, from its inception in the mantle to its manifestations in the biosphere and water column.»

Thanks to high - resolution models of the oceanic circulation and water oxygen content, IRD researchers and their partners have now quantified this ecosystem's sensitivity to various disturbances in the equatorial Pacific.

The Malaspina Expedition, led by the Spanish National Research Council, has demonstrated that there are five large accumulations of plastic debris in the open ocean that match with the five major twists of oceanic surface water circulation.

Paul Dirmeyer, a professor in the department of atmospheric, oceanic and earth sciences at George Mason University who was not involved in the study, notes: «Green et al. put forward an intriguing and exciting new idea, expanding our measures of land - atmospheric feedbacks from mainly a phenomenon of the water and energy cycles to include the biosphere, both as a response to climate forcing and a forcing to climate response.»

The problem for scientists is that oceanic waters tend to mix, which makes monitoring and delineating an experiment in the ocean challenging.

Their analysis, which could discern human - derived nitrogen from natural nitrogen fixation, revealed that the oceanic nitrate concentration increased significantly over the last 30 years in surface waters of the North Pacific due largely to the enhanced deposition of nitrogen from the atmosphere.

Previous studies have subjected phytoplankton to oil in laboratories to test their sensitivity and found differences in the impact on oceanic vs. coastal phytoplankton and differences when phytoplankton were in nutrient - rich or nutrient - poor water, as well as damage to some phytoplankton cells at various concentrations of oil.

As part of a series of complex systemic interactions accompanying oceanic geochemical variation, the mobilisation of metals in spreading anoxic waters may identify the early phase of the kill - mechanism that culminated in these catastrophic events.

With the oceanic plate, water enters the earth as it is trapped in minerals of the oceanic crust or overlaying sediments.

Assuming this process has been going on for all 4.5 billion years of Earth's existence, the researchers say that all known ultralow - velocity zones could have been formed in this manner, even if just 100 billion pounds (45 billion kg) of water — one - 10th of all the oceanic water on Earth — reacted with iron each year.

To understand how water affects subduction of the oceanic plate, in which layers of different rock types sink into the mantle, the UO team studied hydrogen isotopes in water contained in tiny blobs of glass trapped in olivine crystals in basalt.

Note that Ekman pumping does not penetrate deep into the oceanic interior, but since the trades advect the surface waters westward, the upper layer of warm sea water is deeper in the west than in the east.

After participation in a ship expedition with RV SONNE to the North Pacific in summer 2018, the tasks include to reconstruct the spatial and temporal changes in near - surface and subsurface water temperatures in the North Pacific, salinity, thermocline depth, and water mass stratification of the upper oceanic surface using geochemical proxy parameters, e.g. in planktic microfossils.

ref Specifically, reducing land - based sources of pollution (nutrient runoff and sedimentation) has been identified as an important approach to address acidification in coastal waters because nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen and land - based carbon inputs can increase the acidity of coastal and oceanic waters.

Thousands of studies conducted by researchers around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric, and oceanic temperatures; melting glaciers; diminishing snow cover; shrinking sea ice; rising sea levels; ocean acidification; and increasing atmospheric water vapor.

You will recall that hydrothermal vents are plumes of hot water that spew from rocks and cracks along the ocean floor, especially in regions of sea - floor spreading, such as oceanic ridges and rift valleys.

The Indian Ocean Garbage Patch on a continuous ocean map centered near the south pole The Indian Ocean garbage patch, discovered in 2010, is a gyre of marine litter suspended in the upper water column of the central Indian Ocean, specifically the Indian Ocean Gyre, one of the five major oceanic gyres.

In July, the Office of Naval Research made a survey in the waters off Virginia Beach, Virginia using ScanEagle UAVs to study the effect of oceanic and atmospheric changes on radar and radio waves, with the aim of improving military communications and the ability of radar to detect hostile craftIn July, the Office of Naval Research made a survey in the waters off Virginia Beach, Virginia using ScanEagle UAVs to study the effect of oceanic and atmospheric changes on radar and radio waves, with the aim of improving military communications and the ability of radar to detect hostile craftin the waters off Virginia Beach, Virginia using ScanEagle UAVs to study the effect of oceanic and atmospheric changes on radar and radio waves, with the aim of improving military communications and the ability of radar to detect hostile craft..

Guillermo del Toro also dazzlingly uses splashy screens of water and appropriate sound effects to transition between scenes, and imbues the aesthetics with oceanic color grading both indoors and outdoors, all showing that his visual eye is once again in top form.

The beach is nicely protected from the oceanic waves from the Olympic Peninsula, and you can sometimes spot gray whales feeding in the water!

The prolific range of marine life found in these waters results from the convergence of five major oceanic currents that converge on the lonely cluster of islands on the equator.

Occurring offshore in blue oceanic waters, the blue marlin prefers to stay in the warm waters near the surface, above the thermocline.

Cocos Island off Costa Rica, the Galapagos Islands, Socorro in Mexico, Madivaru Corner in the Maldives, and the coast of Malaysian Borneo which features oceanic islands and deep water atolls such as Layang Layang, are among the best dive locations for sightings.

Water Sports in Playas del Coco Jump aboard on a banana boat and have a perfect afternoon in the oceanic breeze and waves.

In the case of Dyson, fragmented and abstract oceanic imagery in her painting Ramond (Water Table)(2017) evokes the personal turbulence we experience in confronting what's currently unfolding globally — at and below sea leveIn the case of Dyson, fragmented and abstract oceanic imagery in her painting Ramond (Water Table)(2017) evokes the personal turbulence we experience in confronting what's currently unfolding globally — at and below sea levein her painting Ramond (Water Table)(2017) evokes the personal turbulence we experience in confronting what's currently unfolding globally — at and below sea levein confronting what's currently unfolding globally — at and below sea level.

The great flow of Arctic deep water comes mainly from THC and is fed with NAD.It prooves the great sinking of water in this zone and the great oceanic heat transfer.

Note that Ekman pumping does not penetrate deep into the oceanic interior, but since the trades advect the surface waters westward, the upper layer of warm sea water is deeper in the west than in the east.

Since, if I remember correctly, subduction generally occurs when a dense oceanic plate dives under a less dense continental plate, you'd have to get the waste to the seafloor and then bury it there in such a way that it wouldn't leak into the water before it sank deep enough into the Earth to be safely forgotten about.

This is what happens in our model events pictured above: during cold phases in Greenland, oceanic convection only occurs in latitudes well south of Greenland, but during a DO event convection shifts into the Greenland - Norwegian seas and warm and saline Atlantic waters push northward.

This rise may have been eustatically controlled, possibly through a combination of thermal expansion of the oceanic water column and melting of unknown sources of high - altitude or polar ice caps in response to global warming.»

Changes in oceanic circulation in the North Atlantic have influence on a planetary level by affecting, in particular, the water cycle.

In shallower waters, it's undeniable that increased CO 2 levels result in a decreased oceanic pH, which has a profound negative effect on coralIn shallower waters, it's undeniable that increased CO 2 levels result in a decreased oceanic pH, which has a profound negative effect on coralin a decreased oceanic pH, which has a profound negative effect on corals.

In addition to expending some of the oceanic heat, the wave action of the cyclone tends to mix the cooler ocean waters below toward the surface, reducing sea surface temperatures after the cyclone passes.

Even the water vapour effect has never provoked any tipping point in the face of the primary solar / oceanic driver so CO2 could never do so.

That property of water could be enough to enable the weather processes overall to stabilise the whole process and is one of the reasons why oceanic temperature is, always has been and always will be the primary atmospheric temperature driver and will always reduce or possibly neutralise any effect of an enhanced greenhouse effect in the absence of really huge changes caused by astronomic or geological processes.

Temperature effects are also quite reliable, and are mainly for above normal temperature in and around the warmed oceanic waters in the Pacific.

Water columns are much more strongly stratified in the tropics than in higher latitudes, so it takes a lot less energy to move parcels from deep oceanic layers to the surface in high latitudes — and, not surprisingly, this is where most communication occurs between deep and surface waters.

A strengthening ACC created a barrier inhibiting intrusions of warm tropical waters and minimizing both oceanic and atmospheric heat transport resulting in the Refrigerator Effect.

The other point about volcanic emissions: the majority of the activity is in the oceanic spreading zones, which release carbon into the water, but because it is absorbed by the water, the gas isn't released for some time, sometimes up to 1000 years.

In the mid-18th century, some researchers began recording measurements of the water temperature at the ocean's surface while on scientific oceanic voyages.

Likewise the oceanic mixed layer (the top one or two hundred meters of water that is roughly constant in temperature compared to deeper down, due to wave - induced mixing in that layer) delays global warming but does not stop it.