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Dr. Judith Curry: The uncertainties in ocean heat content below 700 m are very substantial, see http://judithcurry.com/2014/01/21/ocean-heat-content-uncertainties/... The role of internal ocean behavior in climate change was almost completely neglected up the AR4; the AR5 takes it a bit more seriously.

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Unless your hobby is dumping oil in the ocean, your sterilization has already done more good for the environment than * any * irresponsible behavior is likely to undo.

The paper shows «a massive shift» in the behavior of the Arctic Ocean over a short time, says Finlo Cottier, a physical oceanographer with the Scottish Association for Marine Science in Oban who was not part of the study team.

In coastal areas, tracking tags revealed complex movement patterns dominated by search behavior, while in the open ocean they showed simpler, more predictable movements over longer distanceIn coastal areas, tracking tags revealed complex movement patterns dominated by search behavior, while in the open ocean they showed simpler, more predictable movements over longer distancein the open ocean they showed simpler, more predictable movements over longer distances.

They also knew the behavior of the troposphere influences the circulation patterns of the oceans, which, in turn, drive climate.

And in addition to temperature, other physical factors like available light and even large - scale ocean — atmosphere interactions like the El Niño — La Niña oscillation can affect plankton behavior.

With venomous spines, no natural predators in the Atlantic Ocean, and aggressive behavior, the lionfish have been shown to eat almost anything smaller than they are — fish, shrimp, crabs and octopus.

This «bipolar seesaw behavior of the Atlantic Ocean,» as the paper calls it, led to a southward shift in the Intertropical Convergence Zone, which carried the monsoon rains away from sub-Saharan Africa and into the South African region.

We still don't know enough about tar sand oil, or bitumen, which takes longer to break down due to its high viscosity, but doesn't spread, we also don't know much about the behavior of oil from a blowout, such as the Deepwater Horizon BP blowout, and we know little of how crude oil behaves in the Arctic Ocean, where there is ice, or how to remediate it,» said Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT's Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection and a member of the panel of experts charged with evaluating the impact of spills in Northern waters.

It could be a bat using echolocation to expertly navigate in the dark, or an octopus quickly adapting its behavior to survive in the deep ocean.

Telemetry allows the public to follow ocean animals in real time via transmitters to learn about their natural behavior.

The ability of the ocean to save the globe from climate change may hinge on the behavior of microscopic animals in a dim, watery world.

Documented chemical behavior of these metals, which correlates with previously observed disturbances in oceanic carbon, oxygen and sulphur signatures, strongly suggests that these metal increases resulted from reductions of ocean oxygenation.

In panel discussions and 12 - minute, TED - like talks, the participants will cover more than two dozen success stories, including the conservation of orchids, Mongolian horses, and maned wolves, as well as efforts to develop stronger ocean policies, productive kelp farms, and more constructive human behavior.

The report recommends beefing up forecasting systems for ocean and ice conditions, infrastructure for supply chains for people and equipment to respond, field research on the behavior of oil in the Arctic environment, and other strategies to prepare for a significant spill in the harsh conditions of the Arctic.

In nearly every instance, the toddlers» swimming behavior appears to help them reach or remain in favorable ocean habitatIn nearly every instance, the toddlers» swimming behavior appears to help them reach or remain in favorable ocean habitatin favorable ocean habitats.

«This is a really key paper in terms of trying to integrate the total behavior of the planet, and not just get a record from one place like Greenland or the North Atlantic [Ocean],» Behl said.

I'd love to know what they did take into account in attempting to model that period — must include astronomical location, sun's behavior, best estimates about a lot of different conditions — where the continents were, what the ocean circulation was doing, whether there had been a recent geological period that laid down a lot of methane hydrates available to be tipped by Pliocene warming into bubbling out rapidly.

However, my interest in reproductive behaviors and fishes can be blamed on George Barlow, my undergraduate advisor whose excitement about science, teaching and mentorship shifted my plans from veterinary school to graduate study in evolutionary biology at the University of California Santa Barbara with Robert Warner (bringing me even closer to the ocean!).

There are other influences on the jet stream's behavior, and some scientists think that changes in tropical ocean temperatures, or the cyclical recurrence of El Niño, might have a bigger effect on the jet stream than changes in the Arctic.

RICHLAND, Wash. — Basic ocean conditions such as current directions and water temperature play a huge role in determining the behavior of young migrating salmon as they move from rivers and hit ocean waters for the first time, according to new research.

«Melting ice in Greenland causes ocean levels to rise and decreasing Arctic sea ice results in odd jet stream behavior and weird weather in the Northern Hemisphere,» Stofan said.»

Using a highly realistic biophysical model of ocean currents and larval behavior of snapper developed by co-author Claire Paris of the University of Miami, the researchers traced the movement of snapper larvae from spawning sites in Cuba.

The evidence for this behavior was captured by wildlife film maker John Downer, who, in his documentary Dolphins: Spies in the Pod, witnessed a group of young dolphins snag a puffer fish from near the ocean floor and begin to pass it around.

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Welp, it's Columbus Day, and while your grade school textbook probably filled you in on the basics (he sailed across the Atlantic ocean blue in 1492 to «discover» the «New World,» etc.), there were also a few, uhm, less - than - pleasant outcomes to his journeys around the Americas — namely slavery, genocide, widespread disease, and generally tyrannical behavior.

The graceful, magical and intelligent North Pacific Humpback Whales exhibit a variety of behaviors in and above the ocean surface.

Thus, given the delays in the system: both the ocean responding to CO (2), and the delays in humanity changing it's behavior, there is a risk of guaranteeing a future deglaciation of Greenland before drastic changes are observed (with the attendant O (7m) rise in sea level).

The class of hypothetical climate shifts to which I allude involve fundamental changes in the frequency and amplitude of known oscillatory behavio (u) r of the atmosphere - ocean - cryosphere system and the potential emergence of new oscillatory behaviors.

The behavior of the anomalies of temperature and salinity in the central Arctic Ocean follow a first - order linear response to the AO with time constant of 5 years and a delay of 3 years.

And there are indeed some indications that the Earth's albedo has changed in the recent times, in ways consistent with the ocean's behavior.

In the meantime, the small global network of ice, climate and ocean specialists trying to make sense of ice behavior at both poles are — as always — working to use each year's data to refine their still crude models.

He notes that without a radical change in our behaviors and priorities, we will be left with a bleak future for the oceans, and consequently, ourselves.

«Those who work on the ocean day - to - day live with effects of small changes in climate, while observing the subsequent changes in habitat and species behaviors.

This behavior is consistent with differences in convective sustainability in land and ocean regions as proposed in previous studies.

We do know that ocean basins produce this oscillatory behavior — the El Nino / Southern Oscillation, the Arctic Oscillation, the Pacific Decadal Oscialltion, the NAO, the Madden - Julian Oscillation (Indian Ocean), but they seem to have a bit of a random component, their forcing mechanisms are poorly understood, their «phase changes» appear impossible to predict very far in advance, and they must also be sensitive to the overall climate warocean basins produce this oscillatory behavior — the El Nino / Southern Oscillation, the Arctic Oscillation, the Pacific Decadal Oscialltion, the NAO, the Madden - Julian Oscillation (Indian Ocean), but they seem to have a bit of a random component, their forcing mechanisms are poorly understood, their «phase changes» appear impossible to predict very far in advance, and they must also be sensitive to the overall climate warOcean), but they seem to have a bit of a random component, their forcing mechanisms are poorly understood, their «phase changes» appear impossible to predict very far in advance, and they must also be sensitive to the overall climate warming.

Although it can not be discounted that long - term warming is affecting this circulation in some way, a large part of this recent behavior is likely to be natural variation associated with the vigorous or sluggish phases of the ocean circulation.

I've often said that the evidence for actual periodic (or even pseudoperiodic) behavior in ocean cycles is sketchy at best.

■ NINO3.4 — a proxy for El Nino behavior in the tropical Pacific Ocean.

Such nonlinear behavior depends upon amplifying feedbacks, which, indeed, our climate simulations reveal in the Southern Ocean.

In his story looking into the implications of new scientific findings concerning the potential impacts of ocean circulation variability on our understanding of the behavior the global average surface history (parts of which we described in our last post), Revkin interviewed four prominent climate researcherIn his story looking into the implications of new scientific findings concerning the potential impacts of ocean circulation variability on our understanding of the behavior the global average surface history (parts of which we described in our last post), Revkin interviewed four prominent climate researcherin our last post), Revkin interviewed four prominent climate researchers.

Behavior of the sea ice over the past winter and the spring and the large positive temperature anomalies in the Arctic (as high as 20 degrees C over large regions in the past winter) suggest that an extent near that of the 2012 minimum may occur again if there is large export of sea ice out to the Atlantic Ocean via the Fram Strait.

The fractal scaling behavior in the power spectra of 1 / f fluctuations abounds in astrophysical phenomena (Press 1978:103): the Gutenberg - Richter law of earthquakes (Scholz 1991:41), volcanic activity (Scholz 1991:41), the flow rate of the Nile (Mandelbrot & Wallis 1969:321), ocean currents (Taft & Hickery 1974:403) and daily average air humidity fluctuations (Vattay & Harnos 1993, unpublished).

For example, understanding the decisions leading to different types of energy use could be useful for developing new behaviors and technologies in the future that lessen human impact on atmospheric composition, ocean chemistry, and climate.

Climate change has heated the ocean to dangerously high temperatures and a recent analysis compiled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed the disastrous consequences to come, from super storms to change in marine life behavior.

Wednesday, November 28, 7 pm, Mayer Room, Howe Library, 13 South St., Hanover Our Oceans, Ourselves Dartmouth professor D. G. Webster and UNH professor Jonathan Pennock discuss their research on oceans and the ways in which human cultures and behaviors impact ocean ecOceans, Ourselves Dartmouth professor D. G. Webster and UNH professor Jonathan Pennock discuss their research on oceans and the ways in which human cultures and behaviors impact ocean ecoceans and the ways in which human cultures and behaviors impact ocean ecology.

«The recent dramatic cooling of the average heat content of the upper oceans, and thus a significant negative radiative imbalance of the climate system for at least a two year period, that was mentioned in the Climate Science weblog posting of July 27, 2006, should be a wake - up call to the climate community that the focus on predictive modeling as the framework to communicate to policymakers on climate policy has serious issues as to its ability to accurately predict the behavior of the climate system.

Rial et al. (2004) have discussed the evidence for nonlinear behavior in the paleoclimate proxies for temperature and in the powerful ocean - atmosphere interactions of the North Atlantic Oscillation, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the El Niño Southern Oscillation in Fig. 3.

But California droughts are also fundamentally linked to the quantities and timing of precipitation, the dynamics of storm formation in the Pacific Ocean, the impacts of climate change on the frequency and intensity of El Niño and La Niña events and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, and the behavior of the jet stream as conditions in the Arctic change.

Thinking that the behavior of the atmosphere controls the ocean is what we call in Economics fantastical thinking... the stringing together of multiple unlikely outcomes (in this case relationships) to support a preconceived and desired end result.