Sentences with phrase «includes warm ocean water»

The perfect recipe for a strong hurricane includes warm ocean water and little wind shear.

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That might include draining away the water that lubricates the bottom of an ice sheet, speeding its progress to the sea, or installing barriers to prevent warming ocean waters from hitting the bottom of such glaciers and hastening meltdown.

They must also deal with a host of challenges tied directly to the environment and potentially amplified by climate change, including warming waters, increasing ocean acidity and the spread of diseases that can decimate shellfish stocks.

But stressors, including overly warm ocean water, cause symbiotic algae to abandon coral tissues, bleaching them (right).

«When we included projected Antarctic wind shifts in a detailed global ocean model, we found water up to 4 °C warmer than current temperatures rose up to meet the base of the Antarctic ice shelves,» said lead author Dr Paul Spence from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS).

El Niño has helped to boost temperatures this year, as it leads to warmer ocean waters in the tropical Pacific, as well as warmer surface temperatures in many other spots around the globe, including much of the northern half of the U.S..

It's not just ocean acidification threatening these reefs, it's a number of factors including overfishing, disease, development and warming waters.

Rather, warm water melting the ice at the ice / ocean interface is causing rapid changes, including ice - shelf collapse, and acceleration and recession of Pine Island Glacier.

Other hurricane - friendly climate factors this year include ENSO - neutral conditions (no El Niño or La Niña) in the Pacific Ocean, warmer than average waters in the tropical Atlantic, and a stronger - than - average West African monsoon.

Current stated priorities for the NRDC include curbing global warming, reviving the world's oceans, defending endangered wildlife and ensuring safe and sufficient water supplies.

Ideally located oceanfront on Barbados» West Coast, The Club offers terrific Rooms and Suites, including Garden and Ocean View, a luxurious Spa & Salon, 3 freshwater swimming pools, All - Inclusive dining and drinks, water sports, entertainment, and the warm hospitality Barbados is famous for.

Many of these large mammals migrate back to the warm Pacific Ocean waters of Banderas Bay for the winter months to feed, mate or give birth and include, among others:

The abundant waters off the coast of Cabo San Lucas — located at the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula, where the calm and warm waters of the Sea of Cortez mixes with the unfathomable cool currents of the Pacific Ocean — offer the ideal conditions for plenty of sport - fish species, including (among others) Rooster Fish, Mahi Mahi (known locally as Dorado), varieties of Tuna, Sharks, Jacks, Groupers, and Billfish such as Sailfish, Swordfish, Black Marlin, Blue Marlin and Striped Marlin.

The first is to emphasize your point that degassing of CO2 from the oceans is not simply a matter of warmer water reducing CO2 solubility, and that important additional factors include changes in wind patterns, reduction in sea ice cover to reveal a larger surface for gas escape, and upwelling of CO2 from depths consequent to the changing climate patterns.

Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)

Corresponding time for surface + tropospheric equilibration: given 3 K warming (including feedbacks) per ~ 3.7 W / m2 forcing (this includes the effects of feedbacks): 10 years per heat capacity of ~ 130 m layer of ocean (~ heat capacity of 92 or 93 m of liquid water spread over the whole globe)

In an article on Yale 360 Environment, Veron writes that the major issues include mass bleachings caused by warmer water, which kills off zooxanthellae, the algae with which coral have a symbiotic relationship, and ocean acidification.

Consider the possibility that not just millions, but billions face disastrous consequences from the likes of (including but not limited to): Sandy (and other hybrid and out - of - season storms enhanced by the earth's circulatory eccentricities and warmer oceans); the drought in progress; wildfires; floods (just last week, Argentina had 16 inches of rain in 2 hours *); derechos; increased cold and snow in the north as the Arctic melts and cracks up, breaking up the Arctic circulation and sending cold out of what was previously largely a contained system, and losing its own consistent cold, seriously interfering with the Jet Stream, pollution of multiple kinds such as in China, the increase of algae and the like in our oceans as they heat, and food and water shortages.

The total change in ocean heat, including deep water regions is the best gauge of global warming.

Instead, they discuss new ways of playing around with the aerosol judge factor needed to explain why 20th - century warming is about half of the warming expected for increased in GHGs; and then expand their list of fudge factors to include smaller volcanos, stratospheric water vapor (published with no estimate of uncertainty for the predicted change in Ts), transfer of heat to the deeper ocean (where changes in heat content are hard to accurately measure), etc..

There is absolutely no scientific basis for the suggestion that there will be «disruptions to the food supply (Including the ocean food chain) and access to clean water» from a «warming planet» caused by AGW, with «a few tens of millions of starving people» as a result.

UMaine researchers have also noted an increase in warmer - water species that are turning up in local fishermen's nets, including red hake, turbot, squid, black sea bass, blue crab, butterfish, longfin squid, summer flounder, yellowtail flounder, sea horses and ocean sunfish.

This, of course, causes ocean acidification and ocean warming, which are progressing especially rapidly in the North Pacific and Arctic oceans and threatening the survival of many calcifying marine organisms, including cold - water corals (and the plankton they eat).

Since ENSO is a coupled ocean - atmosphere process, I have presented its impact on and the inter-relationships between numerous variables, including sea surface temperature, sea level, ocean currents, ocean heat content, depth - averaged temperature, warm water volume, sea level pressure, cloud amount, precipitation, the strength and direction of the trade winds, etc..

El Niño is a warming of the eastern Pacific Ocean mainly along the equator, but more broadly, those warm waters trigger profound events across half the planet, including heavy rains in California, fires in Australia, and more and stronger typhoons in the western Pacific.

Plankton forms the main food of many ocean species, and fisheries could be badly hit by the loss of these micro-organisms as a result of warmer waters, according to the paper, published this week in the British journal Nature... Other factors that influence phytoplankton growth include [iron] dust blown from the land, and variations in solar radiation.

In addition to rising temperatures, the report discussed a variety of «other possible effects of an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide», including melting of the Antarctic ice cap, rise of sea level, warming of sea water, increased acidity of fresh waters (which also applies to the danger of ocean acidification, global warming's evil twin), and an increase in plant photosynthesis.

Including open - water phytoplankton biomarkers as well as micropaleontological data, we demonstrate (1) that a permanent sea ice cover existed during MIS 6 and (2) that during the LIG sea ice was still present in the central Arctic Ocean during the spring / summer season even under (global) boundary conditions significantly warmer than the present.

At the same time, ocean acidification and warmer waters caused by climate change have decimated salmon stocks, including the prized blueback sockeye, a unique salmon species intimately linked to the Quinault people and their cultural identity.

It includes the super El Nino of 1998 which brought so much warm water across the ocean that it created a step warming.

Later as the ocean warms to remove the leftover imbalance, more water vapor is added (which Lewis and Curry don't include in their calculation of ECS thus lowballing it).

Renewable energy (which includes solar, wind, water, hydro, tidal and wave, geothermal, ocean thermal, ocean currents, biomass, biofuel) can produce electricity more than enough to power our current and future lifestyle, without polluting the planet and causing global warming.

The current bleaching event has affected reefs throughout the tropics — including much of the Pacific and parts of the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic and the Caribbean basin — and is largely thanks to the onset of a particularly severe El Niño event in 2015, which has resulted in unusually warm water temperatures in many regions.

Third, marine animals, including coral reefs, can not tolerate the acidifying and warming of our ocean waters that results from increased CO2 levels, 30 % of which is absorbed by the oceans.

These changes include melting and thinning of the coastal margins (30) and surging of outlet glaciers (29, 31), which may be contributed to by the intrusion of warming ocean waters (32).

However, it must be borne in mind that the MOC can also include shallower, wind - driven overturning cells such as occur in the upper ocean in the tropics and subtropics, in which warm (light) waters moving poleward are transformed to slightly denser waters and subducted equatorward at deeper levels.

The deep ocean, including the corrosive bottom water, gradually warmed in response.

In response, the California Fish and Game Commission is widely expected to support a closure of state waters; the sharp decline in stocks is blamed on a combination of factors, including surface warming, ocean acidification and pollution.

The next stage might be to include some of the history of the subject and then proceed to the real experiment which would be to include some science, particularly the following topics, forcing, sensitivity, the role of water vapour, the oceans, feedbacks, delayed warming, finger - prints and understanding the ice cores.

It also indicates the models fail to include the largest natural process that periodically creates ocean heat content in the tropical Pacific and also periodically releases that heat from below the surface of the tropical Pacific and redistributes that warm water within the oceans.