Sentences with phrase «northern ocean region»

The salinity levels of the northern ocean region are also influence by the inflow of warm and salty water from lower latitudes in the Atlantic Ocean.

Not exact matches

River Road Vineyard is located at the northern end of Santa Lucia Highlands classified as cold Region I, where ocean breezes create superior cool - climate Burgundian varieties Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.

In the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, much of the day - to - day weather variability is determined by the storm track regions located over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

The models then identified similar upwelling and feeding regions in the Northern Indian Ocean that are also likely to be important habitat for the endangered species.

Worse, climate models predict that the areas where marine preserves are most prevalent — coastal regions in the northern hemisphere — will see greater increases in temperature than the oceans as a whole, Halpin said.

However, this new analysis reveals that the northern North Atlantic, the Southern Ocean and Equatorial Pacific Ocean are all important regions of ocean heat upOcean and Equatorial Pacific Ocean are all important regions of ocean heat upOcean are all important regions of ocean heat upocean heat uptake.

This pool houses nearly twice as much mercury as soils outside of the northern permafrost region, the ocean and the atmosphere combined.

New findings link rising ocean temperatures off the northern coast of Brazil to changing weather patterns: As the Atlantic warms, it draws moisture away from the forest, priming the region for bigger fires.

The results suggest that the western and northern regions of Greenland are most exposed to the influence of ocean water.

More likely, the water would have formed an ocean occupying almost half of Mars» northern hemisphere, in some regions reaching depths greater than a mile (1.6 kilometers).

Consistent with observed changes in surface temperature, there has been an almost worldwide reduction in glacier and small ice cap (not including Antarctica and Greenland) mass and extent in the 20th century; snow cover has decreased in many regions of the Northern Hemisphere; sea ice extents have decreased in the Arctic, particularly in spring and summer (Chapter 4); the oceans are warming; and sea level is rising (Chapter 5).

A 1983 study conducted by climate researcher Kevin Trenberth found that the meteorological definition more closely agreed with observable weather in the continental regions of the northern hemisphere, while the astronomical definition only fit reality better over the oceans in the southern hemisphere.

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 bOcean and to large regions of record warm and much warmer - than - average sea surface temperatures in parts of every major ocean bocean basin.

It was cooler than average in eastern Russia, regions of central and northern Africa, and part of central South America, according to the December Land & Ocean Temperatures Departure from Average and Percentiles maps above.

From Portugal in the southwest across Central and Eastern Europe, Mongolia, Northern China, South Korea and Japan up to Northeastern Siberia, and thence to the American Midwest and Eastern Canada, from the shelf regions of the Arctic Ocean and Northwestern Europe to the bottom of the Adriatic Sea and to the mountains of Crimea: the fossil remains of woolly mammoths have been found everywhere.

Are you saying that ocean circulation patterns in the Northern Hemisphere do not reach Antarctic regions where ice is more in the water?

However, even in the ocean the fit to the data is not that good in many regions — particular the southern oceans and Antarctica, but also in the Northern mid-latitudes.

Beaches of the Eastern suburbs, like Bondi and Coogee, may boast dramatic vistas and bronzed swimmers, but for an authentic Aussie ocean dip, travel north across the Harbor Bridge and investigate the scores of low - key coastal strips that make up the Northern Beaches region.

Join us for a unique expedition, a voyage into an ocean at the end of the world, cruise through the western and northern regions of this vast glaciated archipelago and discover snow covered mountains and glaciers, stark tundra, sea stacks and ice cliffs.

Nestled directly on the northern region of Santa Teresa Beach Costa Rica, one of the top ten world beaches, this is where yogis will experience the supreme energy of the ocean as the waves break on the pristine sandy beach.

For those who don't have much time in the region, hop aboard for a day tour with the Derwent Hunter Tall Ship, Whitehaven Express or Ocean Rafting (be sure to book their Northern Exposure Tour which has the most snorkelling time).

The thick durable sea ice that routinely cloaked much of the Arctic Ocean in colder decades in the 20th century is increasingly relegated to a few clotted places along northern Canada and Greenland, according to the latest satellite analysis of the warming region.

In a recent (of Sept. 16, 2005) publication in Science, Hatun et al. find that record - high salinities have been observed over the past decade in the region where water from the Atlantic flows into the northern oceans.

Note the broad regions over Northern Canada, Siberia, and the Arctic Ocean that are predicted to experience temperatures in the range of 20 degrees Celsius above the already hotter than normal 1979 to 2000 baseline readings.

Some are from the polar regions, some from the tropics, some from the northern hemisphere, some from the southern, some from ocean sites, and some from inland sites.

In northern latitudes during winter areas like Europe would much more affected by ocean warming - one would tropical like conditions during the winter in regions currently strongly affected by warmth of gulf stream - though the flow of gulf stream would greatly diminished, the ocean temperature would be significantly increased.

This WP aims to improve the resolution of ocean models, as well as the representation of physical and biogeochemical processes, in key regions of the world's oceans (particularly tropical coastal regions, the Southern Ocean and high Northern latitudes) to reduce well known biases in ocean models, as well as the representation of physical and biogeochemical processes, in key regions of the world's oceans (particularly tropical coastal regions, the Southern Ocean and high Northern latitudes) to reduce well known biases in Ocean and high Northern latitudes) to reduce well known biases in ESMs.

The range of ocean remaining frozen over the northern polar region reached its minimum extent for 2009 on September 12, when it covered 1.97 million square miles (5.1 million square km), and now appears to be growing again as the Arctic starts its annual cool - down, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported.

It's a region of the North Pacific ocean where the northern jet stream and the southern trade winds, moving opposite directions, create a vast, gently circling region of water called the North Pacific Gyre — and at its center, there are tons of plastic garbage.

Agnostic, there is speculation that there is a bi-polar see - saw b / n the Arctic and Antarctic, likely related to the AMOC, which in its traverse across the equatorial region in the Atlantic, carries ocean heat from the Southern Hemisphere to the northern.

The Eurasian Arctic Shelf - Sea Region, where sea ice is uniquely exposed to open ocean in the Northern Hemisphere, emerges as a strong contender for generating and sustaining propagation of the hemispheric signal.

In World War II, the European region of the Arctic Ocean was heavily contested: the Allied commitment to resupply the Soviet Union via its northern ports was opposed by German naval and air forces.

They are largest in regions of high sea surface temperature variability such as the western boundary currents and along the northern boundary of the Southern Ocean.

And it is known that the southern polar regions «see - saws» with the northern — so when the north polar is on the up cycle — the south polar in on a downer (Bob Tisdale's graph of the southern ocean SSTs shows this clearly for the «global warming» period of 1980 - 2005 — and the Peninsula Region just catches a flow - in from warmer seas to the north).

According to the submission, in geological and geomorphological terms, the continental margin of Canada in the Atlantic Ocean extends continuously from offshore Nova Scotia in the south, along the Grand Banks to the northern tip of Labrador, although each of the three regions has unique characteristics.

This 20 - year variability is, however, significantly reduced in the northern (Camp Century and Agassiz Ice Cap) region, likely due to a larger distance from the Atlantic Ocean, and a much lower snow accumulation.

These models predicted that the Northern Hemisphere Polar region would warm fastest and first, that the Southern Ocean would draw a greater portion of atmospheric heat into the ocean system, and that land ice melt near Greenland and West Antarctica would generate cold, fresh water flows into the nearby ocean zones and set off localized cooOcean would draw a greater portion of atmospheric heat into the ocean system, and that land ice melt near Greenland and West Antarctica would generate cold, fresh water flows into the nearby ocean zones and set off localized cooocean system, and that land ice melt near Greenland and West Antarctica would generate cold, fresh water flows into the nearby ocean zones and set off localized cooocean zones and set off localized cooling.

The North Atlantic, western North Pacific and northern Indian Ocean were among regions seeing slightly below - average cyclone activity.

Either this is a truism (the sun must be heating the ocean surface first) or it is meant to take into account the complex circulations that occur in the ocean, like the Gulf Stream's involvement in a vertical rise of waters from deep ocean layers in one region and sinking of the cooled surface waters as the stream reaches its northern limit.

Diversity less than 2 is calculated over the northern Pacific and Atlantic oceans and exceeding 2 over most of the oceanic regions south of 30 ° S and over Antarctica.

For example, reductions in seasonal sea ice cover and higher surface temperatures may open up new habitat in polar regions for some important fish species, such as cod, herring, and pollock.128 However, continued presence of cold bottom - water temperatures on the Alaskan continental shelf could limit northward migration into the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska.129, 130 In addition, warming may cause reductions in the abundance of some species, such as pollock, in their current ranges in the Bering Sea131and reduce the health of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in decreased overwinter survival.132 If ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.134

Although the Arctic Ocean comprises only 3.7 % of the surface of the global ocean, it receives an input of freshwater from Asia and North America that is equivalent to 11 % of the flow of all rivers, whose flow across the northern continents and into the arctic seas is at least as variable as it is in other regOcean comprises only 3.7 % of the surface of the global ocean, it receives an input of freshwater from Asia and North America that is equivalent to 11 % of the flow of all rivers, whose flow across the northern continents and into the arctic seas is at least as variable as it is in other regocean, it receives an input of freshwater from Asia and North America that is equivalent to 11 % of the flow of all rivers, whose flow across the northern continents and into the arctic seas is at least as variable as it is in other regions.

Subsidence inversions are common over the northern continents in winter and over the subtropical oceans; these regions generally have subsiding air because they are located under large high - pressure centres.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jgrc.20268/abstract Northern North Atlantic sea - surface height and ocean heat content variability Altimetric SSH is dominated by an increase of about 14 cm in the Labrador and Irminger Seas from 1993 to 2011, while the opposite has occurred over the Gulf Stream region over the same time period.

Since the northern Atlantic Ocean is one of the main areas that the AMO is active (meaning that area of the ocean is what warms up) it is hardly surprising that arctic ice in that region is impaOcean is one of the main areas that the AMO is active (meaning that area of the ocean is what warms up) it is hardly surprising that arctic ice in that region is impaocean is what warms up) it is hardly surprising that arctic ice in that region is impacted.

A change in ocean heat content can also alter patterns of ocean circulation, which can have far - reaching effects on global climate conditions, including changes to the outcome and pattern of meteorological events such as tropical storms, and also temperatures in the northern Atlantic region, which are strongly influenced by currents that may be substantially reduced with CO2 increase in the atmosphere.

With the approach of winter, temperatures in Northern Hemisphere begin to cool more rapidly — and the region of maximum north - south temperature differential over the Pacific Ocean starts to shift southward.

The PDO is calculated by examining the difference in temperatures of the northern Pacific from global ocean temperatures as a whole in order to isolate changes specific to that region.

Potential carbon dioxide (CO2) drawdown through dust - induced iron fertilization of ocean biota is restricted to high - nutrient, low - chlorophyll (HNLC) regions, mainly the Southern Ocean and northern Pacific where iron is the limiting micronutrient (6,ocean biota is restricted to high - nutrient, low - chlorophyll (HNLC) regions, mainly the Southern Ocean and northern Pacific where iron is the limiting micronutrient (6,Ocean and northern Pacific where iron is the limiting micronutrient (6, 13).

As a result, the fast and slow responses are nearly opposite to each other in spatial pattern, especially over the subpolar North Atlantic / Southern Ocean regions of the deep - water / bottom - water formation, and in the interhemispheric SST gradient between the southern and northern subtropics.