Sentences with phrase «much warmer sea»

«We expected the storm would definitely get stronger because of much warmer sea surface temperature,» Lau said.

Not exact matches

But new models show that at the current rates of greenhouse gas emissions, warming seas will push these foraging grounds much farther south.

Although the ice cover has increased over the past few years, the Arctic's sea ice is now much thinner than it was just a few years ago, making it more vulnerable to future warming.

He spotted the glassy shards of ancient diatom shells — the remains of microscopic phytoplankton that lived here at warmer times in the past, when a shallow sea covered much of West Antarctica.

The future of the currents, whether slowing, stopping or reversing (as was observed during several months measurements), could have a profound effect on regional weather patterns — from colder winters in Europe to a much warmer Caribbean (and hence warmer sea surface temperatures to feed hurricanes).

It also eliminates much of the uncertainty surrounding potentially ill effects; whereas various mathematical models may disagree about when and at what concentrations Arctic Ocean sea ice disappears, they all agree that at roughly 3 degrees C of warming, the far north will be ice - free.

Temperatures have been warmer before, sea levels have been much higher.

As global warming affects the earth and ocean, the retreat of the sea ice means there won't be as much cold, dense water, generated through a process known as oceanic convection, created to flow south and feed the Gulf Stream.

«Warming greater than 2 degrees Celsius above 19th - century levels is projected to be disruptive, reducing global agricultural productivity, causing widespread loss of biodiversity and — if sustained over centuries — melting much of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea levels of several meters,» the AGU declares in its first statement in four years on «Human Impacts on Climate.»

In the San Francisco Bay area, sea level rise alone could inundate an area of between 50 and 410 square kilometres by 2100, depending both on how much action is taken to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.

«Human influence is so dominant now,» Baker asserts, «that whatever is going to go on in the tropics has much less to do with sea surface temperatures and the earth's orbital parameters and much more to do with deforestation, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and global warming.»

Sea ice is more susceptible to global warming than continental ice because it is much thinner than continental ice.

What's left to figure out is whether this is happening with other subglacial lakes around the Greenland ice sheet, as well as whether and how to incorporate the findings into models that are aimed at gauging how much Greenland might change with the warming climate and how much water it could add to the rising seas.

Much of Pres. Donald Trump's Mar - a-Lago country club in Palm Beach, Fla., sits less than two meters above the Atlantic Ocean, meaning big parts of the resort could rest beneath the waves by the end of this century as seas rise in response to global warming.

That much warming could raise sea levels several feet, flooding the world's coastlines and shifting global weather patterns in ways that could cause massive recurring crop failures.

In the summer of 2005 warm sea waters caused these reefs and others across the Caribbean to expel the algae that normally gives them their color and much of their food, leaving them white as a skeleton and often starving — a process called bleaching.

The Earth was already much warmer than it is today, and the sea was thick and sluggish, the study authors say.

Climate change models predict that the Arctic sea ice will continue to shrink in a warming world (as much as 40 % of the ice is expected to be gone by midcentury), and the resulting changes — including later formation of ice in the autumn, rain falling on the snow, and decreasing snow depths — will make it increasingly difficult for the seals to construct their snow caves, NOAA says.

On its own, sea level rise could inundate between 50 and 410 square kilometres of this area by 2100, depending on how much is done to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.

This region has experienced sea surface warming of as much as 1 °C over fifty years.

Previous research suggested that rapidly warming air and sea temperatures — which melt sea ice — might cause their numbers to plummet by as much as 19 % by 2100.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international organization created by the United Nations that produces climate change models, has predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if global warming continues unabated.

But as the world continues to warm, rising sea levels are going to drown many of our coastal cities, along with much farmland.

Since so much of the ice sheet is grounded underwater, rising sea levels may have the effect of lifting the sheets, allowing more - and increasingly warmer - water underneath it, leading to further bottom melting, more ice shelf disintegration, accelerated glacial flow, and further sea level rise, and so on and on, another vicious cycle.

It will be a dream - come - true for many of the 18 scientists on board, even if they won't be able to spend much time enjoying the warm climate, the sun and the sea breeze on the surface.

The problem arises because most of this sea ice will melt in future global warming scenarios and the warming signal will be taken as the difference between the control [which perhaps has too much sea - ice] and the sea - ice free future.

A new paper by Levermann et al. in PNAS uses the record of past rates of sea level rise from palaeo archives and numerical computer models to understand how much sea level rise we can expect per degree of warming in the future.

That is a major change in sea currents, warming, wildlife, coastal erosion, and much less solar energy being bounced back into space by ice that in not there.

In his seminal 1982 book Climate, History, and the Modern World, the renown climatologist Dr. H.H. Lamb revealed that sea ice in the subarctic and Arctic regions was much less extensive during the Medieval Warm Period (9th - 13th centuries) compared to today.

Once again, surface warming variability diminishes even further in the late 20th century simulations, and once again these late 20th century simulations are much closer to the observed trends of sea surface warming, than the control and early 20th century simulations.

The warmth was due to the near - record strong El Niño that developed during the Northern Hemisphere spring in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean and to large regions of record warm and much warmer - than - average sea surface temperatures in parts of every major ocean basin.

During December 2015, in addition to much of the eastern and central equatorial Pacific, the western North Atlantic, the North Indian Ocean, the ocean waters south of Australia, and parts of the Arctic Seas north of Europe were notably record warm.

In other major ocean basins, parts of the western North Atlantic, the Barents Sea in the Arctic, and much of the Indian Ocean were record warm.

Oceans, which have warmed at an increasingly faster rate, account for as much as 50 percent of global sea level rise, according to a new study.

Much warmer - than - average temperatures engulfed most of the world's oceans during June 2016, with record high sea surface temperatures across parts of the central and southwest Pacific Ocean, northwestern and southwestern Atlantic Ocean, and across parts of the northeastern Indian Ocean.

According to the study, ocean warming now accounts for as much as 50 percent of global sea level rise.

If we thus want to know whether Harvey is a «harbinger» for the future of Houston, the attribution question addressing the overall likelihood of a hurricane like Harvey to occur, which includes many variables other than temperature and sea level rise that interact, needs to be answered by carefully estimating the likelihood of such hurricanes developing in a warming world as well as how much rain they bring.

Any way you look it, from the Climate Prediction Center Outlook through May, to the ongoing warm anomalies in land and sea surface temperatures, much of the United States is likely to find above average temperatures in the coming months.

I've also been reading some reports about much warmer ocean temperatures in the Arctic, another reason sea - bed methane could be released.

Ice formed during the Ice Age is being given back to the sea in our naturally warmer geological period, and man is making matters worse by pouring so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that more heat is being trapped within it.

If all that sounds a bit too much there are plenty of opportunities to simply sit on the beach and soak up the warm rays of the sun, taking a dip in the cool, clear waters of the sea when the heat gets too much.

It's heart - warming to see an organization who cares so much about these sea creatures.

At 18 °C, the average sea temperature for the closest coastal location to Paris in August is much warmer than any of the previous months.

A much loved month for water sports enthusiasts who flock to the Maldives during the end of the dry season, April is warm and boasts the warmest sea temperatures of the year.

The waters of Cabo are much warmer than the whales» usual home, so these majestic and awe - inspiring sea mammals make Cabo their temporary home for the winter.

Feel the warm sand between your toes or take the plunge beneath the sea with Pro Divers... you can do as much or as little as you want on this holiday to Mexico!

When Sea Levels Attack Few people ever realize how much global warming will impact people across the globe, especially those living along the coast or on the islands scattered throughout the oceans.

A smaller ice sheet extent might still respond with the observed high rate of sea level rise (5 m per century) if the warming is much more rapid than when ice sheets were more extensive.

Much of the recent sea ice loss is attributed to warmer sea surface temperatures with southerly wind anomalies a contributing cause [Francis and Hunter, 2007; Sorteberg and Kvingedal, 2006], with thermodynamic coupling leading to associated increases in atmospheric moisture.»

Some claim that extraction is now adding «net terrestrial contribution to increase to +0.87 (0.14) mm yr» If so, then global warming is not contributing as much to sea level as others assert.