Sentences with phrase «large ocean basins»

The suggested hypothesis, is that in regions devoid of dust (e.g., over the large ocean basins), the formation of cloud condensation nuclei takes place from the growth of small aerosol clusters, and that the formation of the latter is governed by the availability of charge, such that charged aerosol clusters are more stable and can grow while neutral clusters can more easily break apart.

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.

Roughly 90 hurricanes occur each year around the world, with by far the greatest number occurring in the largest ocean basin on Earth — the Pacific.

Not exact matches

Great flood: the filly of a large basin by raising oceans during the warming period after the last ice age.

The repeated cycles of plate tectonics that have led to collision and assembly of large supercontinents and their breakup and formation of new ocean basins have produced continents that are collages of bits and pieces of other continents.

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

The story of how the basin relates to Pluto's putative ocean starts with its position on the planet relative to Pluto's largest moon, Charon.

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.

Regions such as the bay areas of the west coast in the US are usually protected from surges from outside but their basins are larger than that of the Clyde and their channels to the ocean are narrower.»

At a first glance, the Witwatersrand basin, the largest known gold resource on our planet, is not automatically related to ocean research.

The new find confirms that the ancient lavas formed at midocean ridges and found throughout deep ocean basins are by volume the largest ecosystem on Earth, scientists say.

The warmth was due to the near - record strong El Niño that developed during the Northern Hemisphere spring in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean and to large regions of record warm and much warmer - than - average sea surface temperatures in parts of every major ocean bOcean and to large regions of record warm and much warmer - than - average sea surface temperatures in parts of every major ocean bocean basin.

Pacific Ocean Basin: Ring Of Fire The Pacific Ocean basin is the largest in the world.

Sunrise views over the blue ocean from the large private balcony, bathroom with 2 vanity basins, rain shower, Thann bathroom amenities, double walk - in wardrobes, LCD TV, DVD player, free WiFi internet.

On the ground floor of each villa is an air - conditioned bedroom, private bar area and a bathroom with double basins, shower and large oversized bathtub looking out towards the ocean.

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# 8220; This multi-year Pacific Decadal Oscillation «cool» trend can intensify La Niña or diminish El Niño impacts around the Pacific basin,» said Bill Patzert, an oceanographer and climatologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «The persistence of this large - scale pattern [in 2008] tells us there is much more than an isolated La Niña occurring in the Pacific Ocean.»

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.

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 Humboldt Current Large Marine Ecosystem (off Chile and Peru), the Benguelan Current LME (Namibia and South Africa), the Canary Current LME (Morocco), are the other main upwelling ecosystems, all driven by similar oceanographic and atmospheric processes, all on the eastern sides of ocean basins (western sides of continents).

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.»

Sea level change based on satellite altimetry is measured with respect to the Earth's centre of mass, and thus is not distorted by land motions, except for a small component due to large - scale deformation of ocean basins from GIA.

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.

Of course, this is not true of mean ocean heat capacity nor the world's mean temperature, however it may be substantial true over a 5 x 5 degree section of ocean or even a region as large as a single ocean basin.

These subtropical ocean gyres are large rotating masses of surface water which occupy the mid-latitudes of each ocean basin.

However the additional over burden of water, fresh and salt to each part of any ocean or extremely large body of water causes the deflection of the bottom of that basin to some extant as well as presenting as a rise in seal level at that area.

When tectonic plates slide, sink and shift the Earth's continents to form large landmasses, or supercontinents, ocean basins open and close in tandem.

A recent comprehensive review [7] reveals that there are still wide uncertainties about the Earth's sea - level history that are especially large for time scales of tens of millions of years or longer, which is long enough for substantial changes in the shape and volume of ocean basins.