Sentences with phrase «major ocean cycle»

There is no major ocean cycle impacting the global temperature at the moment.

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«This finding is a major advance in understanding the natural carbon cycle, gained by applying a new understanding about how the «overturning circulation» of the Southern Ocean works,» said lead author Dr Andrew J Watson from the University of Exeter.

SEA CHANGE A rethink of earlier studies suggests trouble ahead for a major player in ocean nutrient cycles, the nitrogen - fixing Trichodesmium microbes, which can grow in abundance as seen is this image (pale streaks).

Marine bacteria play a major role in the ocean's nutrient cycles.

«They have identified human impact through phenomena such as: Transformed patterns of sediment erosion and deposition worldwide; major disturbances to the carbon cycle and global temperature; wholesale changes to the world's plants and animals; ocean acidification.

Modifications to the frequency and decadal cycles in the IOD could result in major impacts for Indian Ocean rim nations.

Major ice sheets, in particular in Greenland [8], ocean methane clathrate deposits [9], and future evolution of glacial / interglacial cycles [10] might be affected by that long tail.

During that same period, average annual rainfall in New South Wales declined by 3.6 inches (92 millimeters).3 Scientists think the decline in autumn rainfall in southeast Australia since the late 1950s may be partly due to increases in heat - trapping gases in Earth's atmosphere.3, 14 Major bushfires over southeast Australia are linked to the positive phase of an ocean cycle called the «Indian Ocean Dipole» — when sea surface temperatures are warmer than average in the western Indian Ocean, likely in response to global warming.1ocean cycle called the «Indian Ocean Dipole» — when sea surface temperatures are warmer than average in the western Indian Ocean, likely in response to global warming.1Ocean Dipole» — when sea surface temperatures are warmer than average in the western Indian Ocean, likely in response to global warming.1Ocean, likely in response to global warming.15, 16

Each major cycle took water out of the oceans and did not put all of it back in the oceans.

Every major ice age and warming cycle of the last 0.5 Ma put ice at mid-latitudes and melted it and returned it to the oceans.

As one example of this the major oxygen minimum zones of the tropical oceans are expanding which may have significant implications for future nutrient cycles and hence ocean productivity.

The need to adapt to a changing climate and eventually to mitigate climate change increasingly requires more accurate information on fluxes across the traditional domains atmosphere, ocean, land in order to improve our understanding of the major climatic cycles, carbon, water and energy.

And that's only the solar cycles, we haven't even touched on the major ocean oscillations, ENSO, volcanoes, or a raft of other possible factors that could seriously distort your very short base period (and the next few decades too, of course).

However, there have been relatively few studies that have investigated the impacts of OA on microbial processes, particularly those that affect the major biogeochemical cycles within the ocean [3,4].

Abstract The major biogeochemical cycles which keep the present - day Earth habitable are linked by a network of feedbacks which has led to a broadly stable chemical composition of the oceans and atmosphere...

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Why are correlations of Earth's temperature with natural factors such as sunspot numbers, solar cycle lengths, solar magnetic variations and changes in major ocean currents all better than the correlation of Earth's temperature with CO2 levels?