Sentences with phrase «observing ocean conditions»

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The observed increase in freshwater content will affect the conditions in all Greenland fjords and may ultimately affect the global ocean currents that keep Europe warm.

While acidic conditions are known to dissolve calcium carbonate, the method of skeleton construction that Gilbert observed in this study should be much more stable in the face of acidifying oceans.

Using observed and modeled ocean current conditions, they found a difference of distance between the turtles and drifters to be as much as 125 miles in the first few days.

Ed Miles, a professor of marine studies and public affairs at the University of Washington, said the prospect of a coordinated federal ocean acidification research program is welcome news, especially given the conditions Feely observed off the California coast in 2008.

NASA's Earth - observing satellites help monitor those and other impacts by measuring land and ocean conditions that both influence and are affected by El Niño.

The accessibility of a large numbers of tidewater glaciers, subject to warming conditions, provides a unique opportunity to observe processes and enable more accurate predictions of sea level response to ocean warming around Antarctica.

This novel approach finds local populations in the North Pacific and Northwest Atlantic are regionally synchronized and strongly correlated to ocean conditions — such that climate models alone explain up to 88 % of the observed changes over the past several decades.

Since it has been so long since the last nesting was observed here, scientists surmised that recent ocean conditions could be the reason for the re-establishment of this seabird colony.

«Dr Jim Maslanek of the University of Colorado, Boulder to observe the «Spatial and Temporal Variability of Ocean and Ice Conditions In and Near the Marginal Ice Zone»

Ensemble simulations conducted with EMICs (Renssen et al., 2002; Bauer et al., 2004) and coupled ocean - atmosphere GCMs (Alley and Agustsdottir, 2005; LeGrande et al., 2006) with different boundary conditions and freshwater forcings show that climate models are capable of simulating the broad features of the observed 8.2 ka event (including shifts in the ITCZ).

«Using a GCM, can we regenerate the land temperature record from the ocean record using observed SSTs and sea ice distribution as a boundary condition?

Here a simple biologically and physically - based model of sapflow potential is used to assess observed changes in sapflow across the Northeastern US from 1980 to 2006; document the correspondence between these observations and independent downscaled atmosphere ocean general circulation model (AOGCM) simulations of conditions during this period; and quantify changes in sapflow potential through 2100.

Simulation of cumulus clouds under conditions observed during the Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) field campaign.

Across the oceans, record warmth was observed scattered across all oceans, while cooler - than - average conditions were limited to the North Atlantic Ocean, central and eastern tropical as well as southeastern Pacific Ocean, and across parts of the eastern Indian Ocean.

As with previous CIS contributions, the 2016 forecast was derived by considering a combination of methods: 1) a qualitative heuristic method based on observed end - of - winter Arctic ice thickness / extent, as well as winter surface air temperature, spring ice conditions and the summer temperature forecast; 2) a simple statistical method, Optimal Filtering Based Model (OFBM), that uses an optimal linear data filter to extrapolate the September sea ice extent time - series into the future and 3) a Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) prediction system that tests ocean, atmosphere and sea ice predictors.

Importantly, the MEI does not distinguish between natural and anthropogenic changes in climate forcing, but instead provides an integrated index of climate conditions for comparison with observed changes in ocean productivity.»

Background mixing in the deep ocean is related to internal wave energy, which in ice - covered seas has been observed to be lower than in ice - free oceans, and to change with time and bathymetric conditions [Levine et al., 1985 and 1987; Halle and Pinkel, 2003; Pinkel, 2005].

The observed pattern of ocean temperature change created a propensity for drought in some regions around the globe — perhaps including California, which has been experiencing drought conditions more often than not over the past decade and a half.

To answer this question, large ensemble simulations of regional climate models will be carried out for an East Asian domain for two worlds: (1) Real world condition for which the observed sea surface temperatures will be prescribed and (2) Counter-factual world condition for which we will use adjusted sea surface temperatures obtained by removing human - induced ocean warming patterns.