Sentences with phrase «into ocean basins»

At high latitudes, they sink deep into the ocean basins.

Warming temperatures causes ocean water to expand, which raises sea level and glacial ice to melt that creates water that makes its way into ocean basins.

Not exact matches

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.

According to the World Wildlife Fund, untreated waste has turned China's Yangtze River basin into the single largest polluter of the Pacific Ocean.

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.

For scientific purposes, the Antarctic ice sheet is often divided into catchment basins so that comparative measurements can be taken to work out how the ice in each basin is changing and discharging ice to the oceans.

Along one string of sites, or «stations,» that stretches from Antarctica to the southern Indian Ocean, researchers have tracked the conditions of AABW — a layer of profoundly cold water less than 0 °C (it stays liquid because of its salt content, or salinity) that moves through the abyssal ocean, mixing with warmer waters as it circulates around the globe in the Southern Ocean and northward into all three of the major ocean baOcean, researchers have tracked the conditions of AABW — a layer of profoundly cold water less than 0 °C (it stays liquid because of its salt content, or salinity) that moves through the abyssal ocean, mixing with warmer waters as it circulates around the globe in the Southern Ocean and northward into all three of the major ocean baocean, mixing with warmer waters as it circulates around the globe in the Southern Ocean and northward into all three of the major ocean baOcean and northward into all three of the major ocean baocean basins.

The Traps (India) have a thickness of < 3000 m and cover an area of c. 100 000 km2 that initially erupted within a continental rift setting and eventually transitioned into the opening of a nascent ocean basin that formed the Neotethys Ocean and the ribbon - like continent Cimmocean basin that formed the Neotethys Ocean and the ribbon - like continent CimmOcean and the ribbon - like continent Cimmeria.

Dr. Kevin Trenberth and his team have made a unique contribution through the investigation of climate variability and trends in the past, and through the use of models and other creative efforts to reconstruct river discharge into the oceans across the planet for almost 1000 river basins.

Here's a hint though: Earth's rotation, and the division of the ocean into basins by the continental land mass configuration, play a large role in Ekman pumping and suction.

The massive water system is thought to stretch for 3,700 miles across the Amazon basin with an average width of about 200 miles, flowing west to east into the Atlantic Ocean at a rate of 350 feet a year.

So the challenge is to try to resolve that evidence with the ocean heat data that shows that the energy is going into other ocean basins.

All one needs to do is divide the global oceans into tropical and extratropical subsets per ocean basin.

Whether the ocean surface warms more than that is totally dependent on how long it takes excess surface layer energy to be diluted into the entire basin.

Even scientists like Gavin Schmidt and Judith Curry were almost as quick as me to recognize that ocean surface warming, once diluted into the much larger basin, can never again spontaneously concentrate in the surface layer.

Any precipitation or glacial meltwater flowing into an endorheic basin could require centuries to thousands of years to flow back to the oceans.

ii) The 60 year PDO Oscillation appears to be internal to the ocean system as the initial ENSO effects carry into the other ocean basins and then feed back to the Pacific by way of what you call a stadium wave but which I previously called he net interaction between the various ocean oscillations.

The resulting Common Water, also called Antarctic Circumpolar water, flows northward at depth into the three ocean basins (primarily the Pacific and Indian Oceans).

Two reasons why this should be so in the real world are that, first, the Southern Hemisphere subtropical gyres are situated mostly in the Southern Ocean and South Atlantic, and second, that some of the heat coming into the Pacific Ocean basin doesn't actually stay there.

In the northern hemisphere the land masses prevent this and the ocean circulation is broken into smaller gyres in the Atlantic and Pacific basins.

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.

Trade winds transport some of this water vapor out of the Atlantic Ocean basin, across the Isthmus of Panama, and into the Pacific Ocean basin.

We show that the influx of water into the volume created by this subsidence produces a sea - level fall at locations distant from these margins — indeed over the major ocean basins — that is comparable in amplitude to the syphoning mechanism isolated by Mitrovica and Peltier (1991).»

Since the East Indian and West Pacific Oceans are not isolated by landmass, ocean currents spread this cumulative warming into the adjoining ocean basins.

The recent papers looking at ocean ingress into the basin is also a worry when we look at the SST's of those waters in Fram and Bering.

And study authors found that 2 C to 5 C warming of local ocean waters with somewhat greater local air temperature increases was capable of flooding these basins in stages — forcing Totten's glacial ice to flow out into the Southern Ocean and provide significant contributions to sea level ocean waters with somewhat greater local air temperature increases was capable of flooding these basins in stages — forcing Totten's glacial ice to flow out into the Southern Ocean and provide significant contributions to sea level Ocean and provide significant contributions to sea level rise.

I have illustrated and document that there are multiyear aftereffects of ENSO events that cause the positive trends in SST and TLT anomalies outside of the tropical Pacific, and I have shown that the rise in global OHC, when broken down into logical ocean basin subsets, is dominated by natural variables.

These and other observations can be integrated into a model with feedbacks and having two unstable end ‐ points that is consistent both with classical studies of past climate states, and also with recent analysis of ice dynamics in the Arctic basin by Zhakarov, whose oscillatory model identifies feedback mechanisms in atmosphere and ocean, both positive and negative, that interact in such a manner as to prevent long ‐ term trends in either ice ‐ loss or ice ‐ gain on the Arctic Ocean to proceed to an ultimate socean, both positive and negative, that interact in such a manner as to prevent long ‐ term trends in either ice ‐ loss or ice ‐ gain on the Arctic Ocean to proceed to an ultimate sOcean to proceed to an ultimate state.

The western part of the Tethys evolved into the Mediterranean Sea not long after it had been cut off from the global ocean system about 6 million to 5 million years ago and had formed evaporite deposits which reach up to several kilometres in thickness in a land - locked basin that may have resembled Death Valley in present - day California.

Runoff is collected over geographically realistic river basins and mixed into the ocean at the appropriate river mouths.

If an «ice plug» near the coast of Wilkes Basin melts or breaks off into icebergs, the basin's huge quantities of water will drain into the ocean.

Ice Sheet (WAIS), representing 3 - 4 m of potential sea - level rise, is capable of flowing rapidly into deep ocean basins.

«Third, in a period when ocean basins were similar to modern, ice age climate sensitivity to pCO2 changes is underestimated by climate models even when long term changes in solar forcing and ice sheet size and distribution are taken into account, implying that internal positive feedbacks are stronger than previously thought.»

Freshening of the Arctic is so intense (McPhee et al. 2009) that the Arctic Ocean, progressively transformed into the Arctic Ocean Estuary (McClelland et al. 2012), is possibly the only ocean basin where OA by anthropogenic CO2 may not suffice to account for the observed and predicted pH and Ωaragonite trOcean, progressively transformed into the Arctic Ocean Estuary (McClelland et al. 2012), is possibly the only ocean basin where OA by anthropogenic CO2 may not suffice to account for the observed and predicted pH and Ωaragonite trOcean Estuary (McClelland et al. 2012), is possibly the only ocean basin where OA by anthropogenic CO2 may not suffice to account for the observed and predicted pH and Ωaragonite trocean basin where OA by anthropogenic CO2 may not suffice to account for the observed and predicted pH and Ωaragonite trends.

Although global ocean temperatures are rising, a layer of fresher water immediately below the sea ice is thought to act as a buffer between the ice and the warmer Atlantic waters flowing into the Arctic Ocean basin at a lower locean temperatures are rising, a layer of fresher water immediately below the sea ice is thought to act as a buffer between the ice and the warmer Atlantic waters flowing into the Arctic Ocean basin at a lower lOcean basin at a lower level.

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.

You can just plug a huge pneumatic hose into the nearest volcano and inflate the earth with CO2, and that way the ocean basins would increase in area and volume, and the sea level would fall again.