Sentences with phrase «measurements of ocean»

The true confirmation of AGW theory is going to come via measurements of ocean heat content.

We should spend lots more on argus like measurements of the ocean temperature profiles and deep ocean and cut back on fantasy models.

From the beginning, there were serious concerns within the scientific community (both research and operational) about the viability of passive microwave measurements of ocean surface vector winds, especially in storms and in other areas of rain and large amounts of cloud liquid water.

This new research combines measurements of ocean heat, land and atmosphere warming and ice melting to find that our climate system continued to accumulate heat through to 2008.

Until recently, the contribution of ice sheets to sea - level rise remained unknown and is still debated, but the current acceleration of sea - level rise is attributed to heating of the oceans and melting of land glaciers which is supported by measurements of ocean temperatures and the behavior of mountain glaciers, the vast majority of which are retreating or exhibit signs of instability.

-- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GL064541/abstract High - resolution measurements of ocean temperature and salinity in the Arctic Ocean's Canada Basin reveal the importance of the release of solar - derived stored ocean heat on sea - ice growth.

Since the satellite era, satellite measurements of ocean skin surface temperature have supplemented the other technologies, and continue to demonstrate the upward trends.

All recent measurements of ocean heat content show a rate of increase of about half of Hansen's 0.85 W / m2 at worst and probably more like 0.25 W / m2 over the last two decades.

They are also misled to believe that CO2 is polluting the oceans through acidification but there is nothing unnatural or unprecedented about current measurements of ocean water pH and a future rise in pCO2 will likely yield growth benefits to corals and other sea life.»

There were over 3 million pCO2 measurements of ocean waters in the past decades which confirm Henry's law...

QUOTE:» There were over 3 million pCO2 measurements of ocean waters in the past decades which confirm Henry's law...» ANSWER: You seem to refer to Takahashi's data; as the exchange of CO2 between air and water is strongly dependent upon the speed of the wind (as the third power of the wind according to Wanninkof & McGillis 1999) it's not Henry law!

Measurements of ocean alkalinity are so rudimentary and dicey, that we can not say with any certainty where the «missing» CO2 is going quantitatively.

So do measurements of ocean temperatures, which show that warmer temperatures are spreading into the deep abyss.

Alec Rawls: Just because we don't have any direct measurements of ocean heat content over this period doesn't mean we can ignore the hysteresis of the oceans, as Leif does.

These are created by combining ship - and buoy - based measurements of ocean sea surface temperatures with temperature readings of the surface air temperature from weather stations on land.

While measurements of ocean heat going down to 700 metres have showed declining heat accumulation, von Schuckmann 2009 shows that measurements of ocean heat going down to 2000 metres find the oceans have been steadily accumulating heat at 0.77 W / m2 from 2003 to 2008.

The role of SAL is also examined in the interpretation of GRACE - derived measurements of ocean mass.

The ARGO measurements of ocean temperatures with depth shows that the seasonal variation penetrates hundreds of meters deep with a lag of only a few months or around 3 months, 1/4 of a period, to be more precise.

Researchers from the University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Australia; and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., combined the ship's measurements of ocean temperatures with modern observations from the international Argo array of ocean profiling floats.

A new NASA and University of Tasmania study combined the ship's 135 - plus - year - old measurements of ocean temperatures with modern observations to get a picture of how the world's ocean has changed since the Challenger's voyage.

This point is particularly pertinent to the measurements of ocean pH - it isn't like everything else is equal in places like the coast of Hawaii over a 50 - 100 year period of time.

This warming can be seen in measurements of troposphere temperatures measured by weather balloons and satellites, in measurements of ocean heat content, sea surface temperature (measured in situ and by satellites), air temperatures over the ocean, air temperature over land.

The key take - home point is that we now have better measurements of ocean and global heat accumulation.

There are many more relevant measurements of ocean chemical composition than direct measurements of pH. Something can be concluded from those, but it remains certainly true and acknowledged by marine scientists that much more data is needed to get a full picture of all parts of oceans.

You can look at the measurements of ocean heat to see that the oceans have been gaining heat lately.

Experimental evidence for this mechanism can be seen in at - sea measurements of the ocean skin and bulk temperatures.

You've got the radiative physics, the measurements of ocean temperature and land temperature, the changes in ocean heat content (Hint — upwards, whereas if if was just a matter of circulation moving heat around you might expect something more simple) and of course observed predictions such as stratospheric cooling which you don't get when warming occurs from oceanic circulation.

While measurements of ocean heat going down to 700 metres have showed declining heat accumulation, von Schuckmann 2009 shows that measurements of ocean heat going down to 2000 metres find the oceans have been steadily accumulating heat at 0.77 W / m2 from 2003 to 2008.

This module will ensure accurate, consistent, comparable, regional scale, long ‐ term measurements of ocean parameters, which are key to addressing urgent societal and scientific challenges such as climate change, ocean ecosystem disturbance, and marine hazards.

We obtained daily in situ measurements of ocean temperature at six century - scale monitoring stations (see Table 1).

Measurements of ocean acidification have been disrupted.

«By analyzing the scattering signals that we got from satellite measurements of the ocean's color, we were able to develop techniques to calculate how much of the biomass occurs in very large or very small particles.»

Their simulations did not agree with measurements of ocean heat made by scientists since the 1970s, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere.

Its measurements of ocean saltiness will also help scientists understand how changes in salinity affect the deep currents that drive ocean circulation.

NSCAT will provide regular measurements of ocean surface wind velocity from space.

One of the sturdiest pillars of the argument against global warming has crumbled under the weight of some 10 million newly compiled measurements of ocean temperature.

Also, the Jason - 3 measurements of ocean waves and ocean surface topography will be essential inputs to numerical forecasts of sea state and ocean currents and to other applications in the areas of marine meteorology and operational oceanography.

For example, measurement of the ocean heat storage doesn't support any slowdown.

Measurement of ocean heat content is the most critical observation, as nearly 90 percent of the energy surplus is stored in the ocean [64]--[65].

I think any scientists not convinced by that would have been satisfied by the measurements of the oceans in the early 2000s that showed definitively that heat is seeping down there too.

yet Nic Lewis's calculation of climate sensitivity requires accurate measurement of ocean heat uptake.

Measurement of ocean heat content is the most critical observation, as nearly 90 percent of the energy surplus is stored in the ocean [64]--[65].

Briefly, there are so many known unknowns on the measurement of ocean pH, especially those from years ago, that the error limits are quite wide.

Dickson has created the calibration standard for proper measurement of ocean CO2 levels.

WindSat results thus far have not allayed scientists» concerns about passive microwave measurement of ocean vector winds.25

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Saildrone's fleet of sailboats — which are outfitted with dozens of sensors, measurement tools, and cameras — can capture data on fish and wildlife populations, environmental health, ocean temperatures, weather, and climate change.

Thanks to Swarm's precise measurements along with those from Champ — a mission that ended in 2010 after measuring Earth's gravity and magnetic fields for more than 10 years — scientists have not only been able to find the magnetic field generated by ocean tides but, remarkably, they have used this new information to image the electrical nature of Earth's upper mantle 250 km below the ocean floor.

Roger Haagmans, ESA's Swarm mission scientist, explained, «It's astonishing that the team has been able to use just two years» worth of measurements from Swarm to determine the magnetic tidal effect from the ocean and to see how conductivity changes in the lithosphere and upper mantle.

A machine off the coast of Japan will take a variety of measurements hoping to improve understanding of oceans, climate change and biodiversity

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