Sentences with phrase «ocean basin on»

Roughly 90 hurricanes occur each year around the world, with by far the greatest number occurring in the largest ocean basin on Earth — the Pacific.

Not exact matches

«The study demonstrates a robust century - scale link between ocean circulation changes in the Atlantic basin and rainfall in the adjacent continents during the past 4,000 years,» said UTIG Director Terry Quinn, a co-author on the study.

«Here we're seeing an ocean basin changing on a generational timescale — or less,» he adds.

Deep below the Arctic sits a ridge that splits the ocean roughly in half: The Amerasian basin sits on the North American side, whereas the Eurasian basin lies north of Europe and most of Asia.

«Though humpback whales are found in all oceans of the world, the North Pacific humpback whales should probably be considered a sub-species at an ocean - basin level — based on genetic isolation of these populations on an evolutionary time scale,» said Scott Baker, associate director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center and lead author on the paper.

The story of how the basin relates to Pluto's putative ocean starts with its position on the planet relative to Pluto's largest moon, Charon.

Travelling light: white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) rely on body lipid stores to power ocean - basin scale migrations.

At a first glance, the Witwatersrand basin, the largest known gold resource on our planet, is not automatically related to ocean research.

Angel also argues in his paper that local dumping would cause «no impact on biodiversity... because the distribution of species are ocean basin in scale».

The new find confirms that the ancient lavas formed at midocean ridges and found throughout deep ocean basins are by volume the largest ecosystem on Earth, scientists say.

Ocean, continuous body of salt water that is contained in enormous basins on Earth's surface.

We review data on the absorption of anthropogenic CO2 by Northern Hemisphere marginal seas (Arctic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, and East / Japan Sea) and its transport to adjacent major basins, and consider the susceptibility to recent climatic change of key factors that influence CO2 uptake by these marginal seas.

Figure 5.5 shows the linear trends (based on pentadal anomaly fields) of zonally averaged salinity in the upper 500 m of the World Ocean and individual ocean basins (Boyer et al., 2005) from 1955 to Ocean and individual ocean basins (Boyer et al., 2005) from 1955 to ocean basins (Boyer et al., 2005) from 1955 to 1998.

Observed changes in ocean heat content have now been shown to be inconsistent with simulated natural climate variability, but consistent with a combination of natural and anthropogenic influences both on a global scale, and in individual ocean basins.

When I first enter the Surfline homepage, I click on the global swell map to get an idea of what each ocean basin is doing.

Equally palatial is the bathroom with twin basins on a marble countertop, ceramic bathtub, WC enclosure, wall of well - designed wardrobes and both indoor and outdoor rain showers looking over the ocean.

On the ground floor of each villa is an air - conditioned bedroom, private bar area and a bathroom with double basins, shower and large oversized bathtub looking out towards the ocean.

There are major differences dependent on latitude, ocean basin, proximity to specific land masses, and in the case of some proxies, seasonal effects.

I agree the OHC data are incompatible with a predominately internal contribution (although I'm sure Judith would argue those data are too uncertain, though I don't think anyone has argued OHC decreasing over the last half - century, at least not at the ocean basins / depths that communicate with the atmosphere on the relevant timescales).

Kelvin waves can travel eastward along the equator and poleward on the coasts along the eastern boundary of the ocean basins, but not in the ocean interior.

At some places there would be heating of the ocean, in other places, cooling of the ocean (generally, the cooling goes on at high latitudes, warming in the tropics, but there is a lot of variation associated with the shape of the basins, the thermohaline circulation etc.).

Peter Spotts of the Christian Science Monitor wrote a nice piece on the battle of the ocean basins.

Because of the Earth's rotation, the poleward flow in the western Atlantic is constrained to a narrow current on the western boundary of the ocean basin.

The Humboldt Current Large Marine Ecosystem (off Chile and Peru), the Benguelan Current LME (Namibia and South Africa), the Canary Current LME (Morocco), are the other main upwelling ecosystems, all driven by similar oceanographic and atmospheric processes, all on the eastern sides of ocean basins (western sides of continents).

These currents are located on the western side of every ocean basin.

And I'm totally confused on this point: is there a loss of ocean basin volume as the below sea level bed of Greenland rises up and displaces it?

Sea level change based on satellite altimetry is measured with respect to the Earth's centre of mass, and thus is not distorted by land motions, except for a small component due to large - scale deformation of ocean basins from GIA.

The reason for a lack of short term correlation is probably that, absent a volcanic eruption, the Atlantic is warmer during an El Nino BUT the wind shear is greater, thus destroying, on such occasions, the agreement you would normally get with multidecadal changes in SST in the Atlantic RELATIVE to other ocean basins.

Whether the ocean surface warms more than that is totally dependent on how long it takes excess surface layer energy to be diluted into the entire basin.

Figure 5.3 shows the linear trends (1955 to 2003) of zonally averaged temperature anomalies (0 to 1,500 m) for the World Ocean and individual basins based on yearly anomaly fields (Levitus et al., 2005a).

«Despite recent advances in the state of the global ocean observing system, estimating oceanic variability on basin - wide to global scales remains difficult.

«We conclude that, if projections for an increasing frequency of extreme El Niño and La Niña events over the twenty - first century are confirmed, then populated regions on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean basin could be alternately exposed to extreme coastal erosion and flooding, independent of sea - level rise,» the authors write.

This paper covers the natural variability of SLR and the state of knowledge with particular emphasis on each ocean basin.

On the origin of late Holocene sea - level highstands within equatorial ocean basins.

We need to be careful focussing upon «trends» — it can lead to serious errors of context — and this underlies the entire «global warming» thesis which relies upon computer models with entirely false (i.e. non-natural) notions of an equilibrium starting point and calculations of trend — this conveniently ignores cycles, and it has to because a) there are several non-orbital cycles in motion (8 - 10 yr, 11, 22, 60, 70, 80, 400 and 1000 - 1500) depending on ocean basic, hemisphere and global view — all interacting via «teleconnection» of those ocean basins, some clearly timed by solar cycles, some peaking together; b) because the cycles are not exact, you can not tell in any one decade where you are in the longer cycles.

We study this low - frequency variability of the winddriven, double - gyre circulation in mid-latitude ocean basins, via the bifurcation sequence that leads from steady states through periodic solutions and on to the chaotic, irregular flows documented in the observations.

While the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean has a complex three - dimensional spatial structure, the zonally integrated flow in the basin, referred to as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), is largely responsible for the net northward oceanic heat transport on climate - relevant timescales.

The researchers examined data on the number and power of hurricanes making landfall in the five main hurricane basins: North Atlantic, northeastern Pacific, western North Pacific, northern Indian Ocean, and Southern Hemisphere.

These and other observations can be integrated into a model with feedbacks and having two unstable end ‐ points that is consistent both with classical studies of past climate states, and also with recent analysis of ice dynamics in the Arctic basin by Zhakarov, whose oscillatory model identifies feedback mechanisms in atmosphere and ocean, both positive and negative, that interact in such a manner as to prevent long ‐ term trends in either ice ‐ loss or ice ‐ gain on the Arctic Ocean to proceed to an ultimate socean, both positive and negative, that interact in such a manner as to prevent long ‐ term trends in either ice ‐ loss or ice ‐ gain on the Arctic Ocean to proceed to an ultimate sOcean to proceed to an ultimate state.

Ocean, continuous body of salt water that is contained in enormous basins on Earth's surface.

The Atlantic is the small basin surrounded by low - heat - capacity continents (and an Arctic Ocean that is «continental» for most of the year from an atmospheric perspective), so it has higher amplitude and thus higher leverage on stats, including hemispheric & global ones.

b) volumetric effects — change in the volume of water contained in the oceans and the geometry and areal extent of the ocean basins c) gravitational effects — change in the gravitational attraction of the earth (induced by deformation), by the change in distribution of ice and by the change in self - attraction of the water d) rotational effects — change in the moment of inertia caused by a change in the distribution of mass within the earth and on its surface.

Transport of surface waters toward the western boundary of the ocean basins causes the ocean - surface slope to be steeper on the western side (versus eastern side) of a gyre (in either hemisphere).

As shown here for the North Atlantic but also true for all ocean basins, the ocean surface slope is steeper on the western side of an ocean basin than on the eastern side.

Since the tropical West Pacific is already warmer on average than the East, this trend led to a substantial increase in the west - to - east temperature differential across the Pacific Ocean basin over a 15 year period.

Semipermanent anticyclones (high surface pressures), which tend to develop on the eastern sides of the world's ocean basins, result in alongshore surface wind stresses.

Gyre - Basin - scale ocean horizontal circulation pattern with slow flow circulating around the ocean basin, closed by a strong and narrow (100 - 200 km wide) boundary current on the western side.

These experiments provide new insight into mechanisms of past climate changes on Earth, which have been driven in part by tectonic changes in ocean basins and consequent changes in ocean circulation and heat transport.

Within the NSF, the Earth Sciences Division supports research on the continental and coastal record of sedimentary basins, while the Ocean Sciences Division supports ocean basin and deep ocean water reseOcean Sciences Division supports ocean basin and deep ocean water reseocean basin and deep ocean water reseocean water research.

US CLIVAR is engaging with the SEARCH Program to define common research topics, including changes in climate, sea ice extent, ice sheet mass in the Arctic basin, and climate impacts on ocean circulation and regional sea level.