Sentences with phrase «natural ocean circulation»

More to the point, within a relatively short time of starting this pumping scheme, natural ocean circulation would be disrupted.

Well... that human CO2 emissions have absolutely nothing to do with this natural ocean circulation heat transport and weather system.

Not exact matches

But even earlier readings can provide a record of natural climate variation caused by volcanic eruptions or cycles in ocean circulation.

Looking at shifts in Manley's winter temperatures from year to year, he says, gives a good reading of important natural cycles that influence climate, such as changes in ocean circulation like the North Atlantic Oscillation.

During what are called Heinrich events — natural but still largely unexplained fluctuations in the global climate — the Atlantic Ocean's circulation slows substantially.

«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.

He believes that changes in ocean circulation have warmed the Atlantic and increased hurricane activity in the past decade and that this is simply the result of normal oscillation in natural climate cycles.

El Niño is a natural phenomenon that occurs every two to seven years, and is created through a shift in wind and ocean circulation.

Thanks to the natural circulation pattern, that oxygen would then be carried deeper into the ocean interior, where it might still be detectable years later as it travels along its flow path.

Your statement that «Thus it is natural to look at the real world and see whether there is evidence that it behaves in the same way (and it appears to, since model hindcasts of past changes match observations very well)» seems to indicate that you think there will be no changes in ocean circulation or land use trends, nor any subsequent changes in cloud responses thereto or other atmospheric circulation.

The goal is to capture natural variations in the climate, like changes in ocean circulation or features like the El Niño Southern Oscillation, that are swamped by the signal of human - caused warming when looking out to the end of the century.

The first collection of papers establishes that (a) decadal and multi-decadal ocean circulation patterns (AMO, PDO, NAO, ENSO) have significantly modulated precipitation and temperature changes in recent decades, and the second collection of papers confirm that (b) natural ocean oscillations are, in turn, modulated by solar activity.

Natural factors contributing to past climate change are well documented and include changes in atmospheric chemistry, ocean circulation patterns, solar radiation intensity, snow and ice cover, Earth's orbital cycle around the sun, continental position, and volcanic eruptions.

Hansen 1988 did use other forcing but he decoupled the ocean feedback writing, «we stress that this «surprise - free» representation of the ocean excludes the effects of natural variability of ocean transports and the possibility of switches in the basic mode of ocean circulation.»

Another key: in ocean circulation over 500 to a thousands years or more, these natural time frames no longer apply to rates of change today.

Your statement that «Thus it is natural to look at the real world and see whether there is evidence that it behaves in the same way (and it appears to, since model hindcasts of past changes match observations very well)» seems to indicate that you think there will be no changes in ocean circulation or land use trends, nor any subsequent changes in cloud responses thereto or other atmospheric circulation.

Among their effects is their role in altering atmospheric and ocean circulation features away from what they would be in the natural climate system [NRC, 2005].

On the other hand, the AMO hypothesis asserts that natural changes in the deep water circulation of the Atlantic Ocean drive hurricane season SST resulting in changes to both hurricane activity and GT.

There is also a natural variability of the climate system (about a zero reference point) that produces El Nino and La Nina effects arising from changes in ocean circulation patterns that can make the global temperature increase or decrease, over and above the global warming due to CO2.

The available data are insufficient to say if the changes in O2 are caused by natural variability or are trends that are likely to persist in the future, but they do indicate that large - scale changes in ocean physics influence natural biogeochemical cycles, and thus the cycles of O2 and CO2 are likely to undergo changes if ocean circulation changes persist in the future.

4 Natural Processes that Change Climate Ocean Circulations Changes in ocean circulation also can result in short - term climate fluctuation EX: ElOcean Circulations Changes in ocean circulation also can result in short - term climate fluctuation EX: Elocean circulation also can result in short - term climate fluctuation EX: El Niño

Scientists have examined several important strands of evidence about the LIA, including the activity of the sun, of volcanoes, and ocean heat circulation, principle drivers of natural climate change.

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Further analyses of long coupled model runs will be critical to resolve the influence of the ocean thermohaline circulation and other natural climate variations on Arctic climate and to determine whether natural climate variability will make the Arctic more or less vulnerable to anthropogenic global warming.»

Expecting less than 5 % of Earths surface to filter the air mass from the other 95 % given actual air circulation patterns is patently absurd compared to natural CO2 scrubbing mechanisms like the biological carbon cycles, or Henry's law (which is leading to ocean acidification.

Energy budgets change all the time from large natural variations in ocean and atmospheric circulation.

In other words, what we are seeing is probably natural variability in this circulation against a warming background ocean state forced by the increased greenhouse effect.

Here it is important to separate internal natural variability, which is basically ocean circulations from natural variability in the forcing, such as solar and volcanic effects.

Although it can not be discounted that long - term warming is affecting this circulation in some way, a large part of this recent behavior is likely to be natural variation associated with the vigorous or sluggish phases of the ocean circulation.

South America colliding with Central America was once the cause of vast changes to ocean circulation patterns, and a change in Earth's climate — but that «natural» explanation no longer applies in the 21st century.

The fact that the Atmosphere Ocean General Circulation Models are not able to explain the post-1970 temperature increase by natural forcing was interpreted as proof that it was caused by humans.

The advantage of recognising a reversed sign for the solar effect high up in the atmosphere is that it enables a scenario whereby the bottom up effects of ocean cycles and the top down effects of solar variability can be seen to be engaged in a complex ever changing dance with the primary climate response being changes in the tropospheric air circulation systems to give us the observed natural climate variability via cyclical latitudinal shifts in all the air circulation systems and notably the jet streams.

The natural climate variability induced by the low - frequency variability of the ocean circulation is but one of the causes of uncertainties in climate projections.

Clouds change in response to changes in ocean and atmosphere circulation - part of the natural variability of the system.

The most natural type of long term variability is in my view based on slowly varying changes in ocean circulation, which doesn't necessarily involve major transfer of heat from one place to another but influences cloudiness and other large scale weather patterns and through that the net energy flux of the Earth system.

LONDON, 17 March, 2017 — Scientists have calculated that at least 30 % and perhaps one half of the decline in Arctic summer sea ice could be attributed to natural causes — changes of ocean and atmospheric circulation that happen according to some long - term cycle.

USCG Station Sandy Hook is situated within an East Coast hot spot of rising seas, where natural subsidence, low - lying topography, and changing ocean circulation patterns contribute to above - average sea level rise.

Natural shifts in ocean and atmospheric circulation are inevitable — but tipping points are otherwise low probability — high consequence events.

But this is natural, due to ocean circulation changes and other factors.

The problems we are working on range from basic studies of circulation patterns of water in the ocean and groundwater flow systems to the variability of the oceanic circulation under natural and anthropogenically forced conditions or the transport and transformation of contaminants.

Regional circulation patterns have significantly changed in recent years.2 For example, changes in the Arctic Oscillation can not be explained by natural variation and it has been suggested that they are broadly consistent with the expected influence of human - induced climate change.3 The signature of global warming has also been identified in recent changes in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, a pattern of variability in sea surface temperatures in the northern Pacific Ocean.4

The natural internal variability of the climate system arises from factors such as El Niño, fluctuations in the thermohaline circulation, and changes in ocean heat content.

b) atmospheric and ocean circulation patterns since 1950 predominantly caused by natural processes.

Such Arctic changes «could have significant ramifications for global sea level, the ocean thermohaline circulation and heat budget, ecosystems, native communities, natural resource exploration, and commercial transportation.»

Natural fluctuations don't quite average out (e.g. solar, ocean circulation regimes) because the system is nonlinear and chaotic and can be «poked» into shifting through an interaction of external forcing (natural or anthropogenic) and the circulations of atmospheres and Natural fluctuations don't quite average out (e.g. solar, ocean circulation regimes) because the system is nonlinear and chaotic and can be «poked» into shifting through an interaction of external forcing (natural or anthropogenic) and the circulations of atmospheres and natural or anthropogenic) and the circulations of atmospheres and oceans.

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There will be a trivial climate consequence from air circulation changes but miniscule compared to natural variations caused by sun and oceans.

These climate changes are a result of human and natural climate forcings and feedbacks — the relative role of each in altering atmospheric and ocean circulation features, and even the global annual average radiative forcing, however, is still uncertain.

This natural internal variability of surface temperature is an interaction between ocean circulations and winds.

When you say the oceans have stopped warming, are you referring to the last ten years, because I think it is premature to say that this is a climate change rather than natural circulation change.