Sentences with phrase «ocean basins from»

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.

Sea level rise has two primary components: the expansion in volume of seawater with increased temperature and the addition of water in ocean basins from the melting of land - locked ice, including Antarctica and Greenland.

Presently, much of the Atlantic Ocean is well oxygenated (Figure 1) relative to the North Indian and Pacific Oceans, where bottom water O2 concentrations are lower because of the biological removal of O2 as thermohaline circulation moves deep waters across ocean basins from the North and South Atlantic towards the North Pacific, in isolation from the surface ocean.

Not exact matches

Álvaro Corral of the Centre for Mathematical Research in Barcelona, Spain, and colleagues looked at records of hurricanes from four ocean basins around the world between 1966 and 2007.

And across all scales, from very small controlled studies of marine plots to those of entire ocean basins, maintaining biodiversity — the number of extant species across all forms of marine life — appeared key to preserving fisheries, water filtering and other so - called ecosystem services, though the correlation is not entirely clear.

«The hypothesis that the floor of the oceans has been spreading seeks to explain some characteristics of ocean basins and the continents by supposing that material welling up from the interior of the earth forms mid-ocean ridges and then, as new material rises, moves outward, away from the ridges.

They are derived from the idea that if the ice buttress for one of these big basins in East Antarctica were to go, you might get lots of ice sliding into the ocean very quickly, then sea level stabilizing after that most unbalanced ice is released.

While there are regional differences in the poleward movement of cyclones, the fact that every ocean basin other than the northern Indian Ocean has experienced this change leads the researchers to suggest, in the paper, that this «migration away from the tropics is a global phenomenon.&rocean basin other than the northern Indian Ocean has experienced this change leads the researchers to suggest, in the paper, that this «migration away from the tropics is a global phenomenon.&rOcean has experienced this change leads the researchers to suggest, in the paper, that this «migration away from the tropics is a global phenomenon.»

The deep basins under the oceans are carpeted with lava that spewed from submarine volcanoes and solidified.

Monash University geoscientist Associate Professor Wouter Schellart, and his colleague Professor Wim Spakman from Utrecht University, have discovered how the floor of an entire ocean basin that was destroyed 70 to 50 million years ago off the North coast of New Guinea is currently located at 800 - 1200 km depth below Central and South - eastern Australia.

Regions such as the bay areas of the west coast in the US are usually protected from surges from outside but their basins are larger than that of the Clyde and their channels to the ocean are narrower.»

The researchers studied water samples taken during cruises by Chinese ice breaker XueLong, (meaning «snow dragon») in summer 2008 and 2010 from the upper ocean of the Arctic's marginal seas to the basins as far north as 88 degrees latitude, just below the North Pole, as well as data from three other cruises.

For much of the global ocean the coarser resolution is okay, but when you are studying a unique location like the Gulf of Maine, with its complex bathymetry of deep basins, channels, and shallow banks combined with its location near the intersection of two major ocean current systems, the output from the coarser models can be misleading.»

«Answering such questions is important because geologic features such as ocean basins, mountains belts, earthquakes and volcanoes ultimately result from Earth's interior dynamics,» Conrad described.

The researchers found that organisms from each ocean basin had its own unique threshold for the level and type of stressor it could tolerate.

Along one string of sites, or «stations,» that stretches from Antarctica to the southern Indian Ocean, researchers have tracked the conditions of AABW — a layer of profoundly cold water less than 0 °C (it stays liquid because of its salt content, or salinity) that moves through the abyssal ocean, mixing with warmer waters as it circulates around the globe in the Southern Ocean and northward into all three of the major ocean baOcean, researchers have tracked the conditions of AABW — a layer of profoundly cold water less than 0 °C (it stays liquid because of its salt content, or salinity) that moves through the abyssal ocean, mixing with warmer waters as it circulates around the globe in the Southern Ocean and northward into all three of the major ocean baocean, mixing with warmer waters as it circulates around the globe in the Southern Ocean and northward into all three of the major ocean baOcean and northward into all three of the major ocean baocean basins.

In cores from numerous ocean basins, they found that while the numbers of sharks remained steady before and after the extinction event, the ratio of ray - finned fish teeth to shark teeth and scales gradually rose, first doubling then becoming eight times more abundant 24 million years after the extinction event.

«We're trying to quantify the water flow, the water chemistry and then the vegetation that's in the basin, the species that are there, all the way from the glacier terminus down to the ocean,» O'Neel explained.

The authors point out that the findings support previous observations of individual male whales moving between populations in different ocean basins, and that subpopulations from both regions could share the same feeding ground in Antarctic waters.

And the Reef Life Survey, begun in Tasmania by Stuart - Smith and marine ecologist Graham Edgar in 2007, has trait records for more than 5,000 species from all ocean basins.

The mountain ranges overlooking the Los Angeles basin that cradles the city, and the Pacific Ocean beyond, have served as the settings for cinematic fantasies ranging from Westerns to the classic detective stories of Raymond Chandler.

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.

Sunrise views over the blue ocean from the large private balcony, bathroom with 2 vanity basins, rain shower, Thann bathroom amenities, double walk - in wardrobes, LCD TV, DVD player, free WiFi internet.

When Santa Ana conditions prevail, with winds in the lower two to three kilometers (1.25 - 1.8 miles) of the atmosphere from the north through east, the air over the coastal basin is extremely dry, and this dry air extends out over offshore waters of the Pacific Ocean.

«Unfortunately, the complete disappearance of the Atlantic gray whale is the only instance of a whale extinction from an ocean basin during the historical era,» said Dr. Howard Rosenbaum, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Ocean Giants Program and co-author of the socean basin during the historical era,» said Dr. Howard Rosenbaum, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Ocean Giants Program and co-author of the sOcean Giants Program and co-author of the study.

[Notably, IPCC (1) used a global analysis from the UK Met Office that found the same average ship - buoy difference globally, although the corrections in that analysis were constrained by differences observed within each ocean basin (18).]

I wasn't thinking about a basin - wide phenomenon, as that doesn't make sense from the standpoint of ocean physics (as several people have pointed out), but rather a localized effect.

«The rapid warming of the Atlantic Ocean created high pressure zones in the upper atmosphere over that basin and low pressure zones close to the surface of the ocean,» said Prof Axel Timmermann, co-lead and corresponding author from the University of HaOcean created high pressure zones in the upper atmosphere over that basin and low pressure zones close to the surface of the ocean,» said Prof Axel Timmermann, co-lead and corresponding author from the University of Haocean,» said Prof Axel Timmermann, co-lead and corresponding author from the University of Hawaii.

Admittedly, the data from other ocean basins is much more patchy.

[ANDY REVKIN says: Fully half the Arctic Ocean basin was open water last summer — easy sail from Alaska to Siberia.

Vertical land movements such as resulting from glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), tectonics, subsidence and sedimentation influence local sea level measurements but do not alter ocean water volume; nonetheless, they affect global mean sea level through their alteration of the shape and hence the volume of the ocean basins containing the water.

Aside from that, the seas are cooling, and the lagged effects spreading to other ocean basins.

I feel compelled to point out to weather newbies that «Atlantic» sometimes refers to hurricanes that are in the Atlantic / Caribbean / GoM basin to distinguish them from hurricanes in the Eastern North Pacific (see nhc.noaa.gov), as opposed to «hurricanes in the Atlantic» which refers to those in the Atlantic Ocean rather than the Caribbean or Gulf of Mexico.

The earlier period of powerful hurricane activity matched previous studies that found evidence of high hurricane activity during the same period in more southerly areas of the western North Atlantic Ocean basin — from the Caribbean to the Gulf Coast.

The thinking is that this was all water that was temporarily transferred from the ocean to land basin areas such as the Australia (mainly) and parts of the Americas.

SLR satellite data includes things such as the «GIA Adjustment» — which is the amount of SLR that there would have been if the ocean basin hadn't increased in volume and in the case of this new study, how much higher the sea surface would have been if it had not been suppressed by the Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption, another correction for ENSO / PDO «computed via a joint cyclostationary empirical orthogonal function (CSEOF) analysis of altimeter GMSL, GRACE land water storage, and Argo - based thermosteric sea level from 2005 to present», as well as other additions and adjustments — NONE OF WHICH can actually be found manifested in any change to the physical Sea Surface Height.»

«The main hydrological features of the deep Mediterranean Sea are (a) high homeothermy from roughly 300 — 500 m to the bottom, and bottom temperatures of about 12.8 °C to 13.5 °C in the western basin and 13.5 °C to 15.5 °C in the eastern basin (i.e., there are no thermal boundaries, whereas in the Atlantic Ocean the temperature decreases with depth)»

We show that the influx of water into the volume created by this subsidence produces a sea - level fall at locations distant from these margins — indeed over the major ocean basins — that is comparable in amplitude to the syphoning mechanism isolated by Mitrovica and Peltier (1991).»

They argued that water migrated away from far - field equatorial ocean basins in order to fill space vacated by collapsing forebulges at the periphery of previously glaciated regions.

In La Nina years, more rain fell away from oceans, including over the Amazon, the Congo basin and Australia, she said.

The suggested hypothesis, is that in regions devoid of dust (e.g., over the large ocean basins), the formation of cloud condensation nuclei takes place from the growth of small aerosol clusters, and that the formation of the latter is governed by the availability of charge, such that charged aerosol clusters are more stable and can grow while neutral clusters can more easily break apart.

Then there are the individual ocean basins, the «offsets» for them vary from about +1.0 deg C for the South Atlantic to less than +0.1 for the North Pacific.

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.

The finding stems from more than a decade of effort to virtually reconstruct ancient ocean basins to understand how their size and depth have changed since the Cretaceous, which lasted from 145.5 to 65.5 million years ago.

Weinkle et al., 2012 (Abstract; Google Scholar access provide a database for the recorded landfalling tropical cyclones for each of the main ocean basins (data available from Prof. Pielke Jr.'s website).

There are stationarity asssumptions from observations of ocean basins as they appear to us today.

The western part of the Tethys evolved into the Mediterranean Sea not long after it had been cut off from the global ocean system about 6 million to 5 million years ago and had formed evaporite deposits which reach up to several kilometres in thickness in a land - locked basin that may have resembled Death Valley in present - day California.

6 flow in opposite direction of wind - related currents return water taken away from one side of the ocean basin to the opposite side EX: Equatorial Countercurrents

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.

When a basin is resonant, energy from the gravitational attraction of the moon aligns with the length of the ocean basin, causing an amplification of tidal energy.