Sentences with phrase «like ocean processes»

Because weather patterns vary, causing temperatures to be higher or lower than average from time to time due to factors like ocean processes, cloud variability, volcanic activity, and other natural cycles, scientists take a longer - term view in order to consider all of the year - to - year changes.

Not exact matches

In the process, they might identify a planet's surface features — such as oceans, continents, ice caps and even cloudbanks — and detect the presence of biomarkers like oxygen, methane and water.

«Across the globe, the mountain glaciers influence ecosystem processes like stream flow, nutrient delivery and primary production in the ocean.

The third process, tidal dissipation, has recently become a focus in planetary science as a potential heat source sufficient enough to create and maintain subsurface global oceans and viscous processes affecting ice flow in which disturbances within the crystal lattice allow ice to flow like honey (over long enough time periods).

Moore measures how the arches vibrate to the background shaking of the Earth caused by natural processes like wind and distant ocean tides to arrive at a vibrational signature for each arch.

The images depict what might be called embryology in flagrante: micrographs of sperm cells, trailing accordion - like pleats of white zags as they streak across a vast blue ocean of ooplasm; a multihued blastocyst in the process of hatching out of the egg's zona pellucida; and egg cells with a fringe of glowing, fate - determining proteins, looking a bit like a solar eclipse inside a cell.

While on present - day Earth the carbonate formation is dominantly through organic processes (various shell - forming marine organisms are happy to make use of the CO2 dissolved in the ocean), in the early Earth and, presumably, in other Earth - like planets with little or no life the same process can occur inorganically, but somewhat slower, in silicate rock weathering.

That's a process playing out throughout the Southern Ocean, but scientists don't have a good grasp on it or how sudden changes like the loss of a huge hunk of ice will alter carbon uptake.

Many of the other reefs in the study are dissolving in fall and winter when ocean waters tend to be more acidic due to natural processes like seagrass dying off.

Consuming very salty water, like the kind in the ocean, may introduce more salt to your body than it's capable of processing.

Like in the Ocean movies, Soderbergh dives into the detail - oriented process of pulling off a heist while keeping the tone nimble.

For many students, the process of learning new material can feel like swimming in an ocean with fish moving in many different directions.

Custom Coursework College writing occupies such a large part of student life - it's like the ocean in which the students swim — that understanding the coursework writing process more fully would mean understanding the essence of education.

Works like Untitled set the stage for the Ocean Park series by focusing on large areas of color and hinting at the artist's painstaking process.

The Ocean Park series is distinguished by large, luminous paintings that build upon a grid - like system, with extensive reworking and scraped layers of translucent paint — processes that are discernible to the viewer.

Purely physical processes like wind - driven mixing can increase the uptake of CO2 by the oceans, but biological processes also play an important role, as does the temperature difference between the air and the water:

Note that this sampling noise in the tide gauge data most likely comes from the water sloshing around in the ocean under the influence of winds etc., which looks like sea - level change if you only have a very limited number of measurement points, although this process can not actually change the true global - mean sea level.

In general, the heating would match the cooling and the ocean heat content would be roughly stable (though on short timescales that wouldn't be true due to processes like ENSO etc.).

The state of the Earth System (a single system at the planetary level) also involves the oceans, the atmosphere, the cryosphere and very important processes like the surface energy balance and the flows and transformation of elements.

AGWSF's Greenhouse Effect doesn't have convection because it doesn't have real gases, it has substituted the imaginary ideal gas without properties and processes, but our real Earth's atmosphere does have convection — the heavy ocean of real fluid gas oxygen and nitrogen weighing a ton on our shoulders, a stone per square inch, acts like a blanket around the Earth stopping the heat escaping, compare with the Moon which has extreme swings of temperature.

«The resulting increase in the ocean's acidity disturbs important biological processes, like the build - up of calcium carbonate shells.

It was an appropriate hypothesis that rests in a knowledge gap (freely admitted by climate scientists - again in the IPCC), but Spencer seemed unable to pinpoint how long - term cloud changes can be decoupled from temperature changes (he hypothesised that ocean / atmospheric processes, like ENSO and PDO, can cause long - term changes in cloud dynamics - but didn't show how that happens).

However, the ecological impact we do have some basis for understanding is the effect of ocean acidification on important biological processes like calcification.

This study of course does not take away very different concerns related to stratospheric aerosol SRM geoengineering, like possible damage to the ozone layer [which in turn would be good news if you hate waiting for that spring tan] and the fact that allowing CO2 concentrations to keep rising presents other problems, like the necessity to never stop with the active process of SRM geoengineering, and increasing ecological damage caused by ocean acidification.

I guess that if the flux is «disappeared» that would suggest that the true process maybe something like storage of heat in the ocean.

Carbon - belch events like the PETM, Permian, Triassic, Toarcian, even the Mid Miocene CRB / Monterey event, happen at timeframes faster than the slow feebacks can process them, causing CO2 to build up rapidly in the atmosphere and surface ocean.

Like reading tea leaves or making a journey to the Oracle of Delphi, academia's belief that they can represent physical processes in the atmosphere, ocean, land and poles some 50 to 100 years into the future — and, the Delphic pronouncements of Western global warming alarmists like Gore, Hansen, Mann, Alley, etc. — all have taken on an air of the macaLike reading tea leaves or making a journey to the Oracle of Delphi, academia's belief that they can represent physical processes in the atmosphere, ocean, land and poles some 50 to 100 years into the future — and, the Delphic pronouncements of Western global warming alarmists like Gore, Hansen, Mann, Alley, etc. — all have taken on an air of the macalike Gore, Hansen, Mann, Alley, etc. — all have taken on an air of the macabre.

Last, it seems like the process of computing ocean heat content is not as open as it might be.

And second, while atmospheric models could bypass many difficulties by using a simple equation or a single number to stand in for a complex process like a storm, ocean models could not use that trick.

Partly this is because it's hard to beat the blunt biodiversity effects of direct habitat destruction (like deforestation) and partly that is because climate warming is often a slow process, for instance in the deep oceans, where its ecological effects are «outpaced» by the rapidly escalating plastic pollution — admittedly an impossible comparison.

These results also increase our overall understanding of glacial − interglacial cycles by putting further constraints on the timing and strength of other processes involved in these cycles, like changes in sea ice and ice sheet extents or changes in ocean circulation and deep water formation.

The process of more heat being stored vs more heat being lost in the oceans from a change in this metric, would take numerous years to reverse course or play out, like a ship turning at sea........

Replacing single - use drink containers with a reusable bottle not only cuts down on trash and problems like plastic pollution in the ocean, but it also reduces the amount of new resources and energy needed for the manufacturing process.

This effect is ecological in nature and is mediated by microbial activity, and is thus harder to model than simpler physical processes, like glacial melting or ocean warming.

But a reminder, you are doing V&V on the dynamic core, the bottom boundary conditions (like orography), each individual parameterization (e.g. radiative transfer, convection, boundary layer, clouds, etc), and in the case of coupled models the ocean module, the sea ice module, the land process module, the aerosol module (and in future the ice sheet module), in stand alone mode as well as when coupled in the climate model.

They redistribute it across warm / cold boundaries eliminating or lessening the difference across the boundary and may accomplish some work in the process like demolishing a house or making tree limbs sway or causing waves on the ocean.

Topics that I work on or plan to work in the future include studies of: + missing aerosol species and sources, such as the primary oceanic aerosols and their importance on the remote marine atmosphere, the in - cloud and aerosol water aqueous formation of organic aerosols that can lead to brown carbon formation, the primary terrestrial biological particles, and the organic nitrogen + missing aerosol parameterizations, such as the effect of aerosol mixing on cloud condensation nuclei and aerosol absorption, the semi-volatility of primary organic aerosols, the importance of in - canopy processes on natural terrestrial aerosol and aerosol precursor sources, and the mineral dust iron solubility and bioavailability + the change of aerosol burden and its spatiotemporal distribution, especially with regard to its role and importance on gas - phase chemistry via photolysis rates changes and heterogeneous reactions in the atmosphere, as well as their effect on key gas - phase species like ozone + the physical and optical properties of aerosols, which affect aerosol transport, lifetime, and light scattering and absorption, with the latter being very sensitive to the vertical distribution of absorbing aerosols + aerosol - cloud interactions, which include cloud activation, the aerosol indirect effect and the impact of clouds on aerosol removal + changes on climate and feedbacks related with all these topics In order to understand the climate system as a whole, improve the aerosol representation in the GISS ModelE2 and contribute to future IPCC climate change assessments and CMIP activities, I am also interested in understanding the importance of natural and anthropogenic aerosol changes in the atmosphere on the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean and climate.