Sentences with phrase «ocean by a fraction»

So heat that boils the harbour would only warm the entire ocean by a fraction of a degree.

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Led by Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist and marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the team found that a small fraction of contaminated seafloor sediments off Fukushima are moved offshore by typhoons that resuspend radioactive particles in the water, which then travel laterally with southeasterly currents into the Pacific Ocean.

«There may be a large fraction of grazing that is being done by mixotrophs, so it's potentially very significant in terms of the flow of carbon in the ocean and it should be quantified.»

Other weird worlds discovered by the telescope include Kepler - 62e and Kepler - 62f, two water worlds that likely have a global ocean — as opposed to Earth, which has a significant fraction of dry land.

Ocean acidification is also predicted to reduce microbial production of nitrate from ammonium (Beman et al., 2011), which could have major consequences for oceanic primary production because a significant fraction of the nitrate used by phytoplankton is generated by nitrification at the ocean surface (Yool et al., 2Ocean acidification is also predicted to reduce microbial production of nitrate from ammonium (Beman et al., 2011), which could have major consequences for oceanic primary production because a significant fraction of the nitrate used by phytoplankton is generated by nitrification at the ocean surface (Yool et al., 2ocean surface (Yool et al., 2007).

Vital marine ecosystems are threatened by ocean warming and acidification, yet get a tiny fraction of climate finance, E3G research shows

Empirical data for the CO2 «airborne fraction», the ratio of observed atmospheric CO2 increase divided by fossil fuel CO2 emissions, show that almost half of the emissions is being taken up by surface (terrestrial and ocean) carbon reservoirs [187], despite a substantial but poorly measured contribution of anthropogenic land use (deforestation and agriculture) to airborne CO2 [179], [216].

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The atmospheric fraction of that instantaneously released CO2 would drop quickly as it invaded the oceans, while the thermal response of the Earth will be slowed by the thermal inertial of the oceans.

The airborne fraction of new carbon added to the system drifts down from 15 - 25 % after equilibration between the atmosphere and the ocean but before neutralization by the CaCO3 cycle and ultimate recovery by the silicate weathering CO2 thermostat.

Furthermore, much of the heat that is delivered by the sun is stored in the Earth's oceans while only a fraction of this heat is stored in the atmosphere.

It is a low - level environmental intervention that enhances a mechanism already active in nature by increasing the foam fraction of the ocean surface.

The amount of CO2 added to our atmosphere by terrestrial volcanoes is estimated to represent only a small fraction of that emitted by humans, but the total amount entering our climate system via the ocean from submarine volcanoes and fissures in the Earth's crust is unknown.

Based upon the study, they conjectured that the response in the Southern Hemisphere should be delayed as compared to that in the Northern Hemisphere because of the inter-hemisphere difference in the fraction of the area covered by the oceans.»

«However, the detailed analysis of the numerical experiment reveals that the absence of substantial surface warming in the Circumpolar Ocean is attributable not only to the large fraction of the area covered by the oceans but also to the deep penetration of positive temperature anomaly into the oceans.»

Regions showing large positive correlations between GRACE and ECCO, large fraction of ECCO variance explained by GRACE, and large signal - to - noise ratios include the northwestern Pacific Ocean, broad areas of the Southern Ocean, the South China Sea and the Arafura Sea.

This is larger than the above 211 GtC that has accumulated in the atmosphere, but that's accounted for in terms of Le Chatelier's principle, which says that adding a chemical (CO2 in this case) to a system will shift its equilibrium resulting in a certain fraction of the CO2 being taken up by the land and ocean.

Only around 50 per cent of the CO2 we emit (the so - called atmospheric fraction) ends up as increase in atmospheric concentrations, with the rest being absorbed by oceans.

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day; let a man figure out how to spot demagoguery for himself, he knows when his ocean resources are being plundered, his taxes are going to pay for fishing fleets, his labor to enrich fishmongers, and the fish he's being handed a fraction of his own wealth disguised as charity by a slick marketer.

Year 2013: surface skin has wamed a tiny fraction of 1C (not shown for comparison simplicity) and ocean mixing will not permit it to balance within 0.003 C at the sub-skin (maybe also ocean happens to mix heat down a tad faster due to a natural variation), now will only let 1.441 mm to < several tens - to - hundreds of metres > depth warm by 0.69462 C instead of prior 0.697 C (ocean - air interface at 0.70000 C).

New evidence shows that the ocean also acts as a source of organic matter from biogenic origin -LSB-...] Surface - active organic matter of biogenic origin -LSB-...] enriched in the oceanic surface layer and transferred to the atmosphere by bubble - bursting processes, are the most likely candidates to contribute to the observed organic fraction in marine aerosol.

... you could dissolved all of the atmospheric CO2 into our oceans and you would not lower the pH by even 0.00001 mole fraction!..

Empirical data for the CO2 «airborne fraction», the ratio of observed atmospheric CO2 increase divided by fossil fuel CO2 emissions, show that almost half of the emissions is being taken up by surface (terrestrial and ocean) carbon reservoirs [187], despite a substantial but poorly measured contribution of anthropogenic land use (deforestation and agriculture) to airborne CO2 [179], [216].

A fraction of this carbon is released as CO2 by rivers and lakes to the atmosphere, a fraction is buried in freshwater organic sediments and the remaining amount (~ 0.9 PgC / year) is delivered by rivers to the coastal ocean.

QUOTE: «The human fraction in the atmosphere (FA) immediately increases to 14 % but that is rapidly reduced by the residence time which replaces the original «human» CO2 molecules by «natural» CO2 molecules from other reservoirs, mainly the (deep) oceans.

By combining these data, the scientists figured out «what fraction of Antarctic glacial ice is lost through icebergs, and what is lost through ocean melting,» Holland said.

If we add anthropogenic CO2 in this scenario, it now has less of a pCO2 gradient for flow into the ocean, and so the concentration of excess CO2 should decline by even less than half, leaving an even larger fraction in the atmosphere.

It simply isn't conceivable that a mere 55 % of human emissions, (after deducting the so called airborne fraction) offsets the entire absorption changes caused globally and naturally by warmer ocean surfaces.

The EF methodology measures carbon footprint by calculating the hypothetical forest area needed to absorb all industrial carbon emissions, after discounting the fraction absorbed by oceans.

Climate change increases the fraction of emissions that remain airborne by suppressing ocean uptake, enhancing soil respiration and reducing plant NPP.

But that does not change the observed fact that the fraction remaining in the atmosphere has decreased (by around 1 % - point per decade since Mauna Loa measurements started — from around 55 % to around 50 % (even though the ocean temperature increased marginally over this period).

It doesn't even appear to be enough to raise the temperature of the shallow surface layer by more than a fraction of a degree to say nothing of imparting any significant warmth to the other 90 % of the volume of the global ocean below the thermocline (400 + meters deep).

As a smaller fraction of the excess CO2 goes into the oceans, a larger fraction may remain in the atmosphere, and the chemical changes in seawater that can affect organisms will continue to grow in lockstep with the relentless increases in the excess CO2 in the overlying atmosphere caused by human activities.

(This is setting aside oxidation of organic C that has settled to the seafloor; there is a significant amount (about 50 times the marine biota) but the flux is very slow — the total C added to the sea floor each year is about 0.2 Gt, which is a tiny fraction of the 50 Gt cycled through marine biota; even if that were all organic C (I think it is actually mostly inorganic), the rate of oxydation of organic C in the ocean would still have to be almost equal to the rate of organic C production, which is the approximation I used before in calculating the rate of O2 uptake by that process.

Values are shown for the effective climate sensitivity, the net heat flux across the ocean surface multiplied by the ocean fraction and the global mean temperature change (TCR).