Sentences with phrase «major oceanic»

Chemical engineer Gregory Ryskin calculated that a major oceanic methane eruption «would liberate energy equivalent to 108 megatonnes of TNT, around 10,000 times greater than than the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons.»

I will certainly be making the point about the downturn in temperatures worldwide, and their connection with natural processes such as the major oceanic oscillations.

Below is a map showing the location of major oceanic dead zones around the world:

Map also shows EEZ boundaries, state boundaries, international boundaries, marine ecoregions, marine protected areas, major embayments, bathymetry and major oceanic currents.

Possible changing of some of the major oceanic currents (if the Gulf Stream was to fail, as seems possible, much of northern Europe would become uninhabitable);

If you look at global temperature curves you will notice that they are actually a concatenation of El Nino peaks and intervening La Nina valleys, with occasional irregularities caused by major oceanic events.

The most commonly cited frequency for major oceanic fluctations is 60 years.

The diverse and abundant nature of marine life in the Galapagos is the result of the mixing of five major oceanic currents.

The islands sit at the junction of five major oceanic currents.

The other major oceanic gateway opening during this time was the Tasman, or Tasmanian, depending on the paper, gateway between Australia and Antarctica.

The prolific range of marine life found in these waters results from the convergence of five major oceanic currents that converge on the lonely cluster of islands on the equator.

The convergence of three major oceanic currents brings an incredible mix of marine life to this area.

There are trash vortices in each of the five major oceanic gyres.

The area of increased plastic particles is located within the North Pacific Gyre, one of the five major oceanic gyres.

The Indian Ocean Garbage Patch on a continuous ocean map centered near the south pole The Indian Ocean garbage patch, discovered in 2010, is a gyre of marine litter suspended in the upper water column of the central Indian Ocean, specifically the Indian Ocean Gyre, one of the five major oceanic gyres.

Indian Ocean Garbage Patch There are trash vortices in each of the five major oceanic gyres.

We used an extensive dataset of 35 different species (52 % squid, 31 % octopus and 17 % cuttlefish) from all major oceanic regions.

During expeditions from 2009 through 2013, the Tara Oceans scientists sampled viruses, bacteria, protists, and small animals in the upper ocean, ultimately collecting over 35,000 planktonic samples from 210 stations in all the major oceanic regions.

Lightning enhancement over major oceanic shipping lanes.

Ocean currents have been carrying floating debris into all five of the world's major oceanic gyres for decades.

Extensive studies by the authors over the past decades on these islands have documented stratigraphic, sedimentologic, and geomorphic evidence of major oceanic and climatic disruptions at the close of the last interglacial.

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

Not exact matches

One of the major problems, as Latif explained, is that there are just very few long - term oceanic measurements, thereby complicating the analysis and interpretation of climate change signals.

The Malaspina Expedition, led by the Spanish National Research Council, has demonstrated that there are five large accumulations of plastic debris in the open ocean that match with the five major twists of oceanic surface water circulation.

The abundance of turtles in the vicinity of the oil spill was derived by forward - tracking particles from 35 major nesting beaches using knowledge of their population sizes, oceanic - stage durations, and survival rates.

Ocean acidification is also predicted to reduce microbial production of nitrate from ammonium (Beman et al., 2011), which could have major consequences for oceanic primary production because a significant fraction of the nitrate used by phytoplankton is generated by nitrification at the ocean surface (Yool et al., 2007).

These rising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations have led to an increase in global average temperatures of ~ 0.2 °C decade — 1, much of which has been absorbed by the oceans, whilst the oceanic uptake of atmospheric CO2 has led to major changes in surface ocean pH (Levitus et al., 2000, 2005; Feely et al., 2008; Hoegh - Guldberg and Bruno, 2010; Mora et al., 2013; Roemmich et al., 2015).

Polar amplification, in which temperatures at the poles rise more rapidly than temperatures at the equator (due to factors like the global atmospheric and oceanic circulation of heat from the equator to the poles), plays a major role in the rate of ice sheet retreat.

This can only result in major changes to the earth's climate, oceanic circulation patterns, etc..

Polar amplification, in which temperatures at the poles rise more rapidly than temperatures at the equator (due to factors like the global atmospheric and oceanic circulation of heat from the equator to the poles), plays a major role in the rate of ice sheet retreat.

The study found that major hot spots for large marine predators are the California Current, which flows south along the U.S. west coast, and a trans - oceanic migration highway called the North Pacific Transition Zone, which connects the western and eastern Pacific on the boundary between cold sub-arctic water and warmer subtropical water — about halfway between Hawaii and Alaska.

«The open oceans are a major global commons and require effective international cooperation and governance,» GEO - 5's authors relate, and comprising 71 percent of the earth's surface, «the potential collapse of oceanic ecosystems requires an integrated and ecosystem - based approach to ocean governance.»

The AMO1 (compressed) time sequence is a bit perplexing, but it is to do with North Icelandic Jet current, major player in the Nordic Seas summer oceanic heat release into atmosphere.

In order to properly understand, what is going on in the Arctic ocean, we first must understand the oceanic oscillation and the currents in this vast ocean, it is interesting to note, Sweden is recalling its ice breaker from the USA Antarctic survey, and there is concern in the sea of Okhotsk — where, for the last couple of years breaking the winter sea ice has been a major problem, colder here, relatively «warmer» there etc..

The Arctic Ocean's surface temperature and salinity vary seasonally as the ice cover melts and freezes; [4] its salinity is the lowest on average of the five major oceans, due to low evaporation, heavy fresh water inflow from rivers and streams, and limited connection and outflow to surrounding oceanic waters with higher salinities.

Do scientists know enough to separate human factors from the numerous, powerful, interrelated solar, cosmic, oceanic, terrestrial and other forces that have repeatedly caused minor to major climate changes, climate cycles and weather events throughout human and geologic history?

Is this not indicative of a major blunder in the simplifications, notably the effect of convective heat transport and the stabilising effect of condensation and evaporation at the oceanic surfaces?

«This paper provides an update to an earlier work that showed a foreshadowing of such climate shifts in the time evolution of major Northern Hemispheric atmospheric and oceanic modes of variability [Tsonis et al., 2007].

If that is the case, the additional carbon dioxide being emitted by China, India and other developing countries could bring a major additional benefit: helping to protect wildlife habitats, enhance oceanic biota and preserve crop yields under sub-optimal climatic conditions.»

Sea ice extent over polar oceans is a major critical parameter for understanding and forecasting oceanic circulation and earth climate...

Rising oceanic temperatures are intensifying major currents, which will result in hotter and stormier weather over the next one hundred years.

«This paper provides an update to an earlier work that showed specific changes in the aggregate time evolution of major Northern Hemispheric atmospheric and oceanic modes of variability serve as a harbinger of climate shifts.

• Even without major change in atmospheric and oceanic circulation, local shifts in centers of production and mixes of species in marine and fresh waters are expected as ecosystems are displaced geographically and changed internally.

How oceanic and atmospheric circulation patterns translate into things that matter directly to society (e.g. surface climate and weather) requires longer data sets that allows us to understand how the major multidecadal modes translate into atmospheric circulation patterns and surface climate.

Experts believe the activity may carry major repercussions because the oceanic ridges account for some 70 percent of the planet's volcanic eruptions.

If we can model paleoclimate as a function of landmass distribution and oceanic circulation, we have a huge leg up because they are obviously major factors affecting climate.

The country thus influences the flow of the major water masses and results in shelf - edge currents and oceanic eddies that interact with coastal waters over the shelf, bringing oceanic water into the coastal zone.

This not only helps to explains how estuarine crocodiles move between oceanic islands, but also contributes to the theory that crocodilians have crossed major marine barriers during their evolutionary past.

Much of the blame for this can, of course, be attributed to lax regulations; in the U.S., the first (and last) major wave of national legislation addressing ocean and coastal conservation was enacted in the 1970s, with the enactment of the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA) and Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA), amongst others.In recent years, we've seen coastal states taking the initiative in forming regional partnerships aimed at protecting and promoting their dwindling oceanic and coastal resources.

From soil erosion and depletion of water resources to oceanic «dead zones» associated with synthetic fertilizer run - off and generation of major greenhouse gas emissions.