Sentences with phrase «north polar waters»

Getting exact numbers right is hard but operating principles like the north polar water cooling system I just described is easy.

Not exact matches

The sea is just 5 ° north of the Martian equator and would be the first discovery of a large body of water beyond the planet's polar ice caps.

Unlike the south polar cap, the north polar cap probably consists of water - ice.

The team was especially interested in regions near the north and south poles, because the polar ice caps are the planet's largest known reservoir of water.

Significantly, this water was found near Mars» north pole, but not in its polar icecaps, indicating that water extends farther than just those areas of trapped water ice, dust and carbon dioxide.

«Every summer when the sun melts the surface the water has to go someplace, so it accumulates in these ponds,» said Jamie Morison, a polar scientist at the UW Applied Physics Laboratory and principal investigator since 2000 of the North Pole Environmental Observatory.

An innovative use of radio collars has allowed researchers to gauge the long - distance swimming skills of polar bears in the Arctic Ocean waters north of Alaska.

Unfortunately, North Atlantic polar and subpolar waters that now offer hospitable refuge down to depths of 3 km will become mostly corrosive by the end of the century due to invasion of fossil fuel CO2.

In the antarctic polar band (60 and south) there is no ocean at all, all water vapor coming in from the stratospheric conveyor belt (Hadley cell to temperate cell to polar cell), and in the north, there is an icy ocean mostly covered with floes and fast ice.

That line is 0, meaning zero ice, essentially nothing but liquid water at the Earth's north polar regions; that means this graph gives you an absolute scale.

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A recent, widely publicized research study has suggested that the ocean's «thermohaline» circulation that keeps the Earth's north polar region warmed by the flow of tropical water northward could suddenly shut down.

Most interesting is that the about monthly variations correlate with the lunar phases (peak on full moon) The Helsinki Background measurements 1935 The first background measurements in history; sampling data in vertical profile every 50 - 100m up to 1,5 km; 364 ppm underthe clouds and above Haldane measurements at the Scottish coast 370 ppmCO2 in winds from the sea; 355 ppm in air from the land Wattenberg measurements in the southern Atlantic ocean 1925-1927 310 sampling stations along the latitudes of the southern Atlantic oceans and parts of the northern; measuring all oceanographic data and CO2 in air over the sea; high ocean outgassing crossing the warm water currents north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly avnorth (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly avNorth Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly average

-LRB-- NAO) This sea ice then melts in the Sub Polar Atlantic, releasing fresh water into the sub - polar Atlantic waters, which in turn impedes the formation of NADW, which slows down the thermohaline circulation causing warm air not to be brought up from the lower latitudes as far north as previous while in lessening amounts.

Yet this now appears to be underway, as we showed in a recent article, and as we now appear to be witnessing before our very eyes in the form of an anomalous blob of cold water in the sup - polar North Atlantic.

Global warming appears to be shifting the drifting direction of the North Pole so far this century due to the melting of polar ice and redistribution of water on land.

A negative SAM pushes the tracks of storms spinning of the polar vortex further north piling cold water off the South American coast.

One of the consequences could be a disruption of major ocean currents, particularly those flowing north and south, circulating warm water from the equator to polar regions and cold water from the poles back to the equator.

10 Fishery biologists observed that «species of fish such as cod, haddock and herring expanded farther north while colder - water species such as capelin and polar cod retreated northward.

Franz Josef Land provides the most stable sea ice habitat for Barents Sea polar bears because it is largely beyond the influence of warm water influxes from the North Atlantic.

As the last major ice age began to recede around 17,000 years ago, polar ice caps in the north and south started to melt, releasing vast quantities of fresh water into the salty oceans, altering natural currents, affecting the environment.

«During aerial surveys in September 1987 — 2003, a total of 315 live polar bears were observed with 12 (3.8 %) animals in open water, defined for purposes of this analysis as marine waters > 2 km north of the Alaska Beaufort Sea coastline or associated barrier islands.

For the longest time it was thought that the MOC was «thermohaline», or sometimes referred to as horizontal convection, driven by water sinking at the North Atlantic polar regions and gradually diffusing up in various equatorward regions, which seems pretty inefficient.

Melting polar ice sends fresh water into the North Atlantic.

[1975] Greenland, which is a small Antarctica, a polar landmass entirely surrounded by water, has an ocean to the south that remains as a vapor reservoir even when the ocean to the north freezes, so it retains its ice cap.

The presence of this warm water in the North Atlantic helps explain why Scotland has a relatively mild climate when compared to places at similar latitudes in North America such as Churchill, Manitoba — a Canadian town famous for its seasonal polar bear population.

The evidence of greenhouse warming, from cooling stratosphere to polar amplification, especially in the north, is clear — and the well - grounded feedbacks are on the positive side, from water vapour to albedo.

The basic thermohaline circulation is one of sinking of cold water in the polar regions, chiefly in the northern North Atlantic and near Antarctica.