Sentences with phrase «making ocean observations»

Not exact matches

Traditionally oceanographers have gleaned insight into the ocean through observations made on research cruises conducted for a few weeks a year at great cost.

Today, 14 of the 15 satellites currently making climatic observations on Earth are far beyond their designed life - expectancies, with the exception being the Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM):

Given that ocean observations for climate provide a wide range of benefits to the agricultural, shipping, fishing, insurance, and energy - supply industries, the committee that wrote the report suggested that efforts could be made to draw support for ocean observing from the commercial sector.

Funding mechanisms that rely on annual budget approval or short - term grants may result in discontinuity of ocean - climate measurements, reducing the value of the observations made to date and in the future.

It is one of six stations operated by Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), which was set up to make physical, chemical and biological observations of the ocean basin.

Scientists were already fairly confident in the ocean's existence, based on the moon's smooth icy surface — evidence of past resurfacing by the ocean — and other observations by the Galileo spacecraft, which made a handful of flybys in the 1990s.

Researchers are applying observations made by Charles Darwin's grandson to find that small organisms carry water with them as they go — which means they might play a big role in mixing vast tracts of ocean water

Recent improvements to seismometer technology and reliability will allow the research team to make detailed observations of the geologically active region for the first time, including more advanced monitoring of activity at the ocean bottom.

The Ocean Observations Panel for Climate (OOPC) is a scientific expert advisory group charged with making recommendations for a sustained global ocean observing system for climate in support of the goals of its sponOcean Observations Panel for Climate (OOPC) is a scientific expert advisory group charged with making recommendations for a sustained global ocean observing system for climate in support of the goals of its sponocean observing system for climate in support of the goals of its sponsors.

«Crucially, our study also suggests that tidal heating could make deeply buried oceans more accessible to future observations by moving them closer to the surface,» said Joe Renaud of George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, a co-author on the paper.

Made from fibreglass, steel and concrete, the Bathurst Pineapple is complete with a gift shop, tourist information centre and observation deck, boasting views that stretch as far as the Indian Ocean.

Most of these data are in archives, but usingthem intelligently to depict the state of the ocean and to assess time changes in it requiresknowing how the observations were made, what accuracies can be assigned to them, and generally how to approach them.

The empirical observations made in atmosphere, oceans, ice sheets and on biosphere have been important in this process.

That leads to the IPCC conclusion that it is «very likely» that anthropogenic factors have «made a substantial contribution to upper ocean warming» using a method independent of observation estimates of the value of individual fluxes.

«Previous observations have pointed to large methane plumes being released from the seabed in the relatively shallow sea off the northern coast of Siberia, but the latest findings were made far away from land in the deep, open ocean where the surface is usually capped by ice.»

The point is that this observation is not very relevant if the outcome comes from a combination of relevant and persistently warming data from areas where the temperature is strongly correlated with increase in the heat content of oceans, atmosphere and continental topmost layers, and almost totally irrelevant data from areas and seasons where and when exceptionally great natural variability of surface temperatures makes these temperatures essentially irrelevant for the determination of longterm trends.

The observations of the oceans are relatively new and they're relatively shallow still, so I think, again, the time's right to really make progress there.

Three scientific panels, reporting to the Steering Committee, were established to define the observations needed in each of the main global domains (atmosphere, oceans and land), to prepare specific programme elements and to make recommendations for implementation:

I would assume that all that happens is that the transport of heat is changed in the model: if surface air temps in the model are too high compared to observations, more heat is made to go down into the ocean, and vice versa.

The Ocean Observations Panel for Climate (OOPC) is a scientific expert advisory group charged with making recommendations for a sustained global ocean observing system for climate in support of the goals of its sponOcean Observations Panel for Climate (OOPC) is a scientific expert advisory group charged with making recommendations for a sustained global ocean observing system for climate in support of the goals of its sponocean observing system for climate in support of the goals of its sponsors.

Since that day at Pelican Cays, I have been fortunate to travel to many sites around the globe, ranging from the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean to the crashing surf along the Pacific coast of North America, and what I see matches the observations made by what now is an army of scientists: The Earth's flora and fauna are changing — shifting their geographic locations, altering when they reproduce or dying wholesale — as a result of human - induced global warming.

Scientists from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and DOE made satellite observations, which included sea surface height changes alongside data of ocean temperatures accumulated from 1970 to 2004.

, so of course the adjustment needed was to make the less stepped on ocean observations (2/3 of earth) warmer rather than the land «data» (1/3) cooler.

Several estimates of the trend in ocean heat content have been made using the ARGO network of ocean floats, satellite observations of ocean altimetry (Levitus et al., 2000, 2001; Willis et al., 2003), and climate models (Barnett et al., 2001; Crowley et al., 2003).

But well - characterized observations of carbonate chemistry trends weren't made at those sites, so it isn't possible to draw a direct line of causality between the acidification of the ocean and a decline in coral skeleton building.

So, to understand the ocean for example you can make observations and collect data, but the only way you can do an «experiment» is «virtually» in a model.

Understanding the role of the ocean in climate change and making decadal climate forecasts will be greatly enhanced by observations planned as part of an international Global Ocean Observing Syocean in climate change and making decadal climate forecasts will be greatly enhanced by observations planned as part of an international Global Ocean Observing SyOcean Observing System.

In the Metzl et al paper for example (your link above), Ocean - atmosphere fluxes differ wildly between models and observations (more than 5 GTc / month, ie 60 Gt / y,) and measurements are made on short periods (less than a decade).