Sentences with phrase «major ocean boundaries»

The aim of my PhD is to use the distribution of diatom species preserved in sediment cores across the Scotia Sea to reconstruct the position of major ocean boundaries and water masses through time.

Not exact matches

So for the policy - relevant issues, we generally focus on the physical atmosphere - ocean system, sometimes with coupled carbon - vegetation system, and treat the major ice sheets, orbital parameters and planetary topography as fixed boundary conditions.

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.»

They are twice the change, and they are the only major positive contribution, when natural processes are netted in the sense that transfer across the ocean / atmosphere boundary is netted and growth and decay of plants is netted.

Boundaries between water masses define major thermohaline fronts, which are generally synonymous with ocean currents.

Maslowski in 2007 showed for the Arctic that you show more significant changes to the ocean and sea ice, which besides explaining why warming of surface air is lagging is the worst possible outcome as warm surface air by itself is relatively benign, but a restructured ocean - ice boundary system will result in major changes to coastal and continental weather in the long run.

Scientists from the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) have provided new evidence that ocean circulation changes lagged behind, and were not the cause of, major climate changes at the beginning and end of the last ice age (short intervals known as glacial boundaries), according to a study published in the March 2005 issue of Science magazine.