Sentences with phrase «ocean and atmosphere around»

In this email, Trenberth is bemoaning the lack of monitoring equipment in the ocean and atmosphere around the world that would give scientists more information to help understand exactly how short - term climate variation happens.

Not exact matches

«And the transition seemed to occur right around the time that there were very large changes in ocean - atmosphere oxygen levels and just before the emergence of animals.&raqAnd the transition seemed to occur right around the time that there were very large changes in ocean - atmosphere oxygen levels and just before the emergence of animals.&raqand just before the emergence of animals.»

However, the Clark School researchers say blue whirls could improve remediation - by - combustion approaches by burning the oil layer with increased efficiency, reducing harmful emissions into the atmosphere around it and the ocean beneath it.

Dave has been around for 35,000 years circulating among atmosphere and ocean, so I have Dave in a CO2 molecule going through the infrared gas analyzer at Mauna Loa Hawaii and, in a sense, participating in the discovery of the increasing amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere.

The collection of larger than usual amounts of Arctic winter weather data in 2015 was due to two reasons: the Norwegian research vessel Lance was in the Arctic Ocean observing and collecting upper atmosphere meteorological data, and the frequency of observation and data collection was increased at some of the land - based observation stations around the Arctic.

The next step was see how those factors were influenced by ENSO; while El Niños and La Niñas are defined by how much warmer or colder than normal tropical Pacific ocean waters are, they trigger a cascade of reactions in the atmosphere that can alter weather patterns around the globe.

«Like storms in the atmosphere, these eddies help to distribute energy, warmth, salinity and other things around the ocean.

That is a question climate scientists have so far been unable to answer because of limited opportunities to take robust ocean - atmosphere measurements around the planet and because of inherent challenges in existing computer models.

Earth's oxygen - rich atmosphere emerged in whiffs from a kind of cyanobacteria in shallow oceans around 2.5 billion years ago, according to new research from Canadian and US scientists.

Although the evidence was subsequently contested, some single - celled microbial life lacking a nucleus that segregates their internal DNA or RNA («prokaryotes») from the surrounding cytoplasm may have flourished in darkness within cracks in Earth's seafloor crust and around deep, warm or boiling hot ocean springs (hydrothermal or volcanic vents, such as at Lost City or at black smokers) without a need for light or free oxygen in the oceans or atmosphere.

The finding suggests that microbes with the ability to produce oxygen were prolific at least locally around 3.46 billion years ago, releasing large quantities of this reactive molecular gas into the oceans and eventually the atmosphere by the end of this period (more).

If we could successfully build an atmosphere around Mars, and somehow refill the oceans, Gill's images are a good idea of how the planet would look.

In the months and years after the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, scientists were able to track the spread of radioactive material in the atmosphere and the ocean around the globe.

It documents the excessive heat that's been building up around the world and causing changes from the depths of the oceans to the top of the atmosphere.

and don't understand that the oceans hold about 1000X the heat content of the atmosphere, and that things «slosh around» in the short term.

My reservations about EN LN discussion center around how those wobbles in the relentless trend get spun into discussion of the background rate of increase of CO2 in the atmosphere and oceans.

Jeff Tollefson, in Nature (http://www.nature.com/news/climate-change-the-case-of-the-missing-heat-1.14525): «For several years, scientists wrote off the stall as noise in the climate system: the natural variations in the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere that drive warm or cool spells around the globe.

Hundreds of millions of cars around the planet are releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day, causing ocean acidification and global warming.

The ocean, with around 38,000 gigatons (Gt) of carbon (1 gigaton = 1 billion tons), contains 16 times as much carbon as the terrestrial biosphere, that is all plant and the underlying soils on our planet, and around 60 times as much as the pre-industrial atmosphere, i.e., at a time before people began to drastically alter the atmospheric CO2 content by the increased burning of coal, oil and gas.

From what I see from the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) of land temperatures and the Comprehensive Ocean - Atmosphere Data Set (COADS) of SST data, temperatures there were higher around the 1930's than now, and there is not much long term warming trend, except for the past few years.

And since the 1970 ′ s on average there's about a 4 % increase in water vapor over the Atlantic Ocean and when that gets caught into a storm, it invigorates the storm so the storm itself changes, and that can easily double the influence of that water vapor and so you can get up to an 8 % increase, straight from the amount of water vapor that's sort of hanging around in the atmospheAnd since the 1970 ′ s on average there's about a 4 % increase in water vapor over the Atlantic Ocean and when that gets caught into a storm, it invigorates the storm so the storm itself changes, and that can easily double the influence of that water vapor and so you can get up to an 8 % increase, straight from the amount of water vapor that's sort of hanging around in the atmospheand when that gets caught into a storm, it invigorates the storm so the storm itself changes, and that can easily double the influence of that water vapor and so you can get up to an 8 % increase, straight from the amount of water vapor that's sort of hanging around in the atmospheand that can easily double the influence of that water vapor and so you can get up to an 8 % increase, straight from the amount of water vapor that's sort of hanging around in the atmospheand so you can get up to an 8 % increase, straight from the amount of water vapor that's sort of hanging around in the atmosphere.

It is logical to expect that, as atmospheric greenhouse gases increase and the world warms up, the extra energy in the atmosphere and oceans will move things around in unusual ways for which we are not prepared.

Mauritsen said the warming of the upper ocean and the atmosphere during the summer through reduced cooling around Europe results in the stronger transport of heat into the Arctic, which is actually «pristine» in general.

The claim to get around the two problems of an geometric increase in error, and using absolute values of temperature that are not Earth's, is the argument that the model ensemble got the heat transfer correctly in atmosphere and in the ocean.

Instead you have around 4 atm of nitrogen gas, and some quantity in terms atmospheres of CO2, very little H2O gas in atmosphere and it snowing and raining CO2 with lakes / oceans / ice caps of CO2.

This leaves around 3 or 4 billion tonnes that are somehow being absorbed by the oceans, the land biosphere, or both.One possibility is that most of the man - made CO2 which does not accumulate in the atmosphere is being absorbed by the oceans... This view is supported by indirect evidence derived from the atmospheric nuclear bomb tests of the 1950s and 1960s.

The ocean feedbacks are present in all resolutions, across most of the bi-stable region, whereas the atmosphere feedback is strongest in the longitude — latitude grid and around the transition where the THC off state is disappearing.

The only trend I see in those 161 years is one that correlates beautifully with all estimates of increasing atmospheric CO2 since 1850 assuming that 45 % of emissions (as per CDIAC datasets) is retained in the atmosphere and, with a delay of around 15 years (possibly due to the ocean heatsink, aka Hansen's «pipeline»), heats the surface by 2.8 - 2.9 C for each doubling of atmospheric CO2.

AGWSF's Greenhouse Effect doesn't have convection because it doesn't have real gases, it has substituted the imaginary ideal gas without properties and processes, but our real Earth's atmosphere does have convection — the heavy ocean of real fluid gas oxygen and nitrogen weighing a ton on our shoulders, a stone per square inch, acts like a blanket around the Earth stopping the heat escaping, compare with the Moon which has extreme swings of temperature.

Because the oceans cover some 71 % of the Earth's surface and are capable of retaining heat around a thousand times that of the atmosphere, the oceans are where most of the energy from global warming is going - 93.4 % over recent decades.

How hurricanes develop also depends on how the local atmosphere responds to changes in local sea surface temperatures, and this atmospheric response depends critically on the cause of the change.23, 24 For example, the atmosphere responds differently when local sea surface temperatures increase due to a local decrease of particulate pollution that allows more sunlight through to warm the ocean, versus when sea surface temperatures increase more uniformly around the world due to increased amounts of human - caused heat - trapping gases.25, 26,27,28

But a single time scale just doesn't express the multi-compartment transfer rates — a fifth to a third of the CO2 remains in the atmosphere after even a 40 - year half - life of ocean equilibration (which quite frankly agrees with my numbers — I get about a back of the envelope number of ~ 37 years half - life, depending on the saturation limits), and the rest will be around for quite a while.

Changes in the ocean impact the atmosphere and climate patterns around the globe.

Heat is always moving around in the climate system between the atmosphere and the ocean systems.

Somewhere around 0.6 w / m2 seems to be what the system is adding each year, and the bulk of that is stored in the ocean., with the remainder spread out between the atmosphere, cryosphere, and lithosphere.

It is a carbon cycle so the CO2 cycles around the atmosphere, land and oceans.

However the temperature of the air around the Earth is set by the combination of both the power of the solar energy reaching the Earth (the electricity supply) and the greenhouse effect (or rather the resistor effect) of the entire atmosphere and at this point readers need to recall my earlier contention that for greenhouse (resistor) purposes the oceans must be included as part of the «atmosphere».

The induced current around the equator would drive the atmosphere and surface ocean currents simultaneously, although being lighter, the atmosphere might show a change before ocean currents.

Via the Water Cycle, it lowers it 52 °C from the 67 °C the real greenhouse would be without it, this being the thermal blanket of the real gas fluid ocean atmosphere of mainly nitrogen and oxygen around our Earth:

These extra gases are causing the Earth to get warmer, setting off all sorts of other changes around the world — on land, in the oceans, and in the atmosphere.

How hurricanes develop also depends on how the local atmosphere responds to changes in local sea surface temperatures, and this atmospheric response depends critically on the cause of the change.23, 24 For example, the atmosphere responds differently when local sea surface temperatures increase due to a local decrease of particulate pollution that allows more sunlight through to warm the ocean, versus when sea surface temperatures increase more uniformly around the world due to increased amounts of human - caused heat - trapping gases.18, 25,26,27 So the link between hurricanes and ocean temperatures is complex.

Evidence for changes in the climate system abounds, from the top of the atmosphere to the depths of the oceans (Figure 2.1).1 Scientists and engineers from around the world have compiled this evidence using satellites, weather balloons, thermometers at surface stations, and many other types of observing systems that monitor the Earth's weather and climate.

The oceans have risen by around 2.5 cm over the last decade, emphasising just how warm the seas and the atmosphere have become already As ice caps glaciers and sea ice show us the trend in rather obvious ways, scientists studying the phenomena have been shocked.

In my view, the lower atmosphere (and the oceans of course) moves heat around the system and so mitigates the highs and the lows so that we don't see the extremes that are seen on the moon.

Global climate change has contributed to the higher sea surface and sub-surface ocean temperatures, a warmer and moister atmosphere above the ocean, higher water levels around the globe, and perhaps more precipitation in storms.»

By «meager» scientific work, he means Judith Curry is the co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences and the co-author of Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans and a member of the National Research Council's Climate Research Committee - as opposed to running around falsely claiming to be a Nobel Laureate and playing Jessica Alba's personal climatologist on a James Cameron crockumentary.

Climate change is warming oceans around Earth, evaporating more water into the atmosphere and feeding storms that could brew into hurricanes.

When carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is absorbed by the ocean, it forms carbonic acid, H2CO3, which makes the ocean more acidic and decreases its pH. This makes it more difficult for many marine organisms to grow their shells and skeletons, and threatens coral around the globe.

Is the very basic physics of meteorology, from understanding built on knowing the properties and processes of real gases which are our fluid ocean atmosphere around us.

My curiosity is built around the assumption that the warmer air mass must have transferred heat to the ocean (warmer to colder) and that raises the thought that the atmosphere would have to get colder than the ocean for it (the air) to be warmed by the sea.