Sentences with phrase «major ocean basin»

The South Atlantic is unique in that it is the only major ocean basin where heat is transported from the pole towards the equator.

During this first part of the hiatus period, the heat deficit must be transferred to other ocean basins, mostly to the Pacific because it is the only other major ocean basin in the Northern Hemisphere, likely through the atmosphere.

The adjacent charts (courtesy of ocean expert Bob Tisdale) plot the temperature changes for each major ocean basin since late 1981.

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 basin.

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 basins.

In other major ocean basins, parts of the western North Atlantic, the Barents Sea in the Arctic, and much of the Indian Ocean were record warm.

While western boundary currents exist in all the major ocean basins, the two in the Northern Hemisphere (including the Kuroshio Current in the Pacific) are better developed and more intense than their Southern Hemisphere counterparts.»

Furthermore, the increase 0 — 2000m is observed in all major ocean basins (Levitus et al. 2012 supplementary information, Fig.

How a single overturning cirulation could be responsible for approximately simultaneous OHC increase 0 — 2000m in all major ocean basins is a mystery to me — and to oceanographers too.

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).»

The second format is with the maps rearranged so that the major ocean basins are complete.

Then you can explain how a regional SST change can cause OHC to rise simultaneously in all major ocean basins for four decades (and counting).

Three major ocean basins were examined; Atlantic, Indian and Pacific.

Warming has been observed in each of the world's major ocean basins and has been directly linked to human influences.

Not exact matches

The Southern Ocean is unique in that it is comprised of the southern-most sectors of the major oceanic basins.

For much of the global ocean the coarser resolution is okay, but when you are studying a unique location like the Gulf of Maine, with its complex bathymetry of deep basins, channels, and shallow banks combined with its location near the intersection of two major ocean current systems, the output from the coarser models can be misleading.»

Each December, six months before the start of hurricane season, the now 75 - year - old Gray and his team issue a long - range prediction of the number of major tropical storms that will arise in the Atlantic Ocean basin, as well as the number of hurricanes (with sustained winds of 74 miles per hour or more) and intense hurricanes (with winds of at least 111 mph).

This current therefore is a major region for mixing water between different ocean basins.

Amongst these seas only the East / Japan Sea has no outflow of intermediate and deep water (containing anthropogenic CO2) to an adjacent major basin; the others are known to be significant sources of intermediate and deep water to the open ocean.

We review data on the absorption of anthropogenic CO2 by Northern Hemisphere marginal seas (Arctic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, and East / Japan Sea) and its transport to adjacent major basins, and consider the susceptibility to recent climatic change of key factors that influence CO2 uptake by these marginal seas.

There are major differences dependent on latitude, ocean basin, proximity to specific land masses, and in the case of some proxies, seasonal effects.

We find that a major result of these papers — that hurricane activity is increasing in most ocean basins — is not reproducible, due probably to the quality of the data that was originally used to establish this claim.

While the global value will comprise ocean basins where there could be no rise or even a fall in cyclones, the global data does show a quite convincing rise in the nuumber of major tropical cyclones globally.)

The only two ocean basins with major increases in OHC during the ARGO era are the South Atlantic and the Indian Oceans, while the North Atlantic, Arctic, and South Pacific Oceans show significant declines in OHC.

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