Sentences with phrase «like global ocean circulation»

The closing of the Central American Seaway intensified the Gulf Stream, the upper limb of a conveyor - like global ocean circulation called the Ocean Conveyor.

An introduction to studies like the Global Ocean Circulation Experiment (GOCE, HOTS, BATS, etc.) can be found at http://hahana.soest.hawaii.edu/hot/intro.html.

Not exact matches

In applying them, they found that a more realistic representation of the marine ecosystem helped the ocean to take up and store carbon at similar rates regardless of global changes in physical properties, like temperature, salinity and circulation.

We work with global ocean circulation models to understand issues like the thermal expansion of ocean waters due to global warming or the effect of changing ocean currents on regional sea levels.

Many factors — like the thermohaline circulation, which reverses direction at the poles as warm salty water releases heat into the air and sinks down to the bottom — are heavily influenced by the ocean's salinity, and thus, the movement of freshwater into and around the Arctic plays an important role in shaping both regional and global climate.

That is because there are factors, like air and ocean circulation patterns, that affect both the rate and the intensity of the global warming.

Personally I'd like the climate boffins, or someone, run the global circulation models with no ocean and see what happens.