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The crust encompasses the brittle and shifting continental plates; it becomes scarred with mountains when the plates grind together or with deep ocean basins when the plates pull apart.
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One important algae quantified by this new technique are the coccolithophores, ocean plants that surround themselves with reflective chalk plates that, en masse, can cause entire ocean basins to reflect more light when they «bloom.»
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.»
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.
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.
SSTs are a minor portion of ocean heat content (especially when we're talking about just a portion of one basin.)
During epochs when El Niño events dominate, the SST anomalies of the North Atlantic rise more than the SST anomalies of the other ocean basins, and when La Niña events dominate, the North Atlantic SST anomalies drop more than the SST anomalies for the rest of the globe.
The recent papers looking at ocean ingress into the basin is also a worry when we look at the SST's of those waters in Fram and Bering.
I have illustrated and document that there are multiyear aftereffects of ENSO events that cause the positive trends in SST and TLT anomalies outside of the tropical Pacific, and I have shown that the rise in global OHC, when broken down into logical ocean basin subsets, is dominated by natural variables.
We found that the two quantities that correlate significantly and consistently in all ocean basins and seasons are the Hadley cell extent and the high cloud field: when the Hadley cell edge moves poleward, the high cloud field also shifts towards the poles, and vice versa.
How could the Pacific SST cool when the heat sink was located in other ocean basins?
When tectonic plates slide, sink and shift the Earth's continents to form large landmasses, or supercontinents, ocean basins open and close in tandem.
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.
«Third, in a period when ocean basins were similar to modern, ice age climate sensitivity to pCO2 changes is underestimated by climate models even when long term changes in solar forcing and ice sheet size and distribution are taken into account, implying that internal positive feedbacks are stronger than previously thought.»
They used an algorithm to count the number of tropical cyclones that formed in each ocean basin in the world of 2080 - 2099, when the assumed SSTs were 2.5 C higher than today's (IPCC A1B scenario).