He has done extensive work on modeling and interpretation of sea level and
ocean bottom pressure signals and is currently a member of various NASA satellite mission science teams (Ocean Surface Topography, GRACE, Ocean Surface Salinity) and the GODAE OceanView Science Team.
Previous theoretical and model - based studies of the relationship between
ocean bottom pressure (pb) and sea level (ζ) suggest primarily barotropic variability at mid to high latitudes for scales greater than a few hundred kilometers and periods less than a few months.
Peralta - Ferriz, C., J. H. Morison, J. M. Wallace and J. Zhang, (2011), A basin - coherent mode of sub-monthly variability in Arctic
Ocean bottom pressure, Geophys.
The Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) is unique in its ability to measure changes in
ocean bottom pressure (OBP) over the entire globe at large scales.
Not exact matches
Bacteria thrive virtually everywhere on Earth — from sub-zero temperatures to over 750 degrees F (in hydrothermal vents at the
bottom of the
ocean), and in widely varying oxygen,
pressure and nutrient conditions.
If the planet is covered by an immense amount of water, the
pressure at the
bottom of the
ocean will increase to such an extent that water occurs in the form of «Ice VII,» which does not exist on Earth.
Can withstand
pressures six times greater than those at the
bottom of the
ocean and endure temperatures ranging from more than 100 °C down to absolute zero.
Deepest point in the
ocean is teeming with life At the
bottom of the Mariana trench, some 11,000 metres below sea level and at
pressures 1100 times those at the surface, bacteria are thriving.
He proposed that the
bottom layers of Europa's ice shell would be slightly warmer than the ice on top, due to heating from both the
ocean below and the crushing
pressure of the miles - thick ice above.
Under
pressure The DEEPSEA CHALLENGER's ability to linger at the
ocean bottom for an extended period of time means scientists on future dives might be able to study microbes such as actinomycetes in their natural environments.
The bone - crushing
pressures and eyebrow - singing temperatures maintain this water in a plasma state, creating a dense, deadly
ocean at the
bottom of its atmosphere.
Once sand at the
bottom of the
ocean, these sediments were buried and the
pressure turned the sand into limestone.
Methane hydrate forms in cold temperatures and under high
pressure — conditions that can be found at the
bottom of the
ocean.
At the
bottom of the Pacific
Ocean at a depth of about 4000 meters, the
pressure is about 4 x 107 N / m2.
SAL effects produce additional variations in
ocean mass ranging from a few mm to more than 1 cm and can be of the same order of magnitude as the variations in dynamic
bottom pressure in several
ocean regions.
Knowledge of the relationship between
bottom pressure pb and sea level ζ is important for understanding
ocean circulation and climate.
CO2 is liquid at the temperatures and
pressures of the
bottom of deep
oceans.
For example, reductions in seasonal sea ice cover and higher surface temperatures may open up new habitat in polar regions for some important fish species, such as cod, herring, and pollock.128 However, continued presence of cold
bottom - water temperatures on the Alaskan continental shelf could limit northward migration into the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska.129, 130 In addition, warming may cause reductions in the abundance of some species, such as pollock, in their current ranges in the Bering Sea131and reduce the health of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in decreased overwinter survival.132 If
ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing
pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.134
Tide heights near ice shelves can be measured using traditional coastal tide gauges and
bottom pressure recorders, while currents can be measured with meters on moorings in the open
ocean or deployed through boreholes drilled through ice shelves, which are the floating portions of ice sheets.
The
pressure and temperature at the
bottom of the
oceans is such that carbon dioxide will be in a liquid state.
A smoothed time series of atmospheric CO2 mole fraction (in ppm) at the atmospheric Mauna Loa Observatory (top red line), surface
ocean partial
pressure of CO2 (pCO2; middle blue line) and surface
ocean pH (
bottom green line) at Station ALOHA in the subtropical North Pacific north of Hawaii for the period from 1990 — 2011.
to complement the card: the psmsl.org data base has some very interesting measurements of the changes of
pressure on the
bottom of the
ocean with no obvious trend since 1993 (South Drake passage)... where is the +3 mm / year gone?
The seismological studies extend offshore with
ocean bottom seismic experiments, and seafloor
pressure measurements are used to study tsunamis and oceanographic processes.
Spatially ‐ averaged
bottom pressure anomalies near Antarctica (south of 60 ° S) calculated from GRACE data are well correlated with those produced by the ECCO project using least ‐ squares optimization methods to fit an
ocean model to most available data.
A tireless defender of the
oceans and marine life, Claire Nouvian led a focused, data - driven advocacy campaign against the destructive fishing practice of deep - sea
bottom trawling, successfully
pressuring French supermarket giant and fleet owner Intermarché to change its fishing practices.
Satellite - detected distribution and magnitude of the salinity and
bottom pressure in parts of the polar
ocean suggest a shift from a clockwise to a counterclockwise pattern prevalent prior to the 1990s.