Sentences with phrase «ocean circulation patterns»

The sparse proxy data failed to predict modern large - scale ocean circulation patterns.

Warming is widespread over the upper layer of the ocean (500 meters or so), and this may change normal ocean circulation patterns, with unforeseen consequences.

Information is transmitted to a satellite when the animals surface to breathe and is used to create computer models that will better predict ocean circulation patterns.

They range from changes in ocean circulation patterns caused by glacial meltwater entering the ocean to the cosmic - impact theory.

Glacial retreat affects ocean circulation patterns, fisheries and global sea level rise.

They will look for evidence of temperature changes caused by ocean circulation patterns in both the North Atlantic and tropical Pacific Oceans, which drive precipitation in Tibet as well as the Indian monsoons.

Recall also that the record low area coverage last summer was also due to the wind / ocean circulation pattern at the time.

A fundamental element of today's climate system is a conveyor - like ocean circulation pattern that distributes vast quantities of heat and moisture around our planet.

Joint Base Langley - Eustis is located in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, an area where natural subsidence, low - lying topography, and changing ocean circulation patterns contribute to above - average rates of sea level rise.

However, with the onset of the monsoon the new ocean circulations patterns began to emerge that were not favorable to the islands» coral reefs.

At a global scale, the increased melting of the ice sheet contributes to rising sea level and may impact global ocean circulation patterns through the so - called «thermohaline circulation'that sustains among others, the Gulf Stream, which keeps Europe warm.

As a consequence of that bias, existing climate change projections for the Northeast U.S. Shelf and the Gulf of Maine are based on unrealistic regional ocean circulation patterns.

The first collection of papers establishes that (a) decadal and multi-decadal ocean circulation patterns (AMO, PDO, NAO, ENSO) have significantly modulated precipitation and temperature changes in recent decades, and the second collection of papers confirm that (b) natural ocean oscillations are, in turn, modulated by solar activity.

Now that we know much more than we did about ocean circulation patterns, intermixing and the like (although there is still much to learn) we need to get this message across in much simpler fashion than we have done so far.

So all that Mother Nature has to do is crank these upper ocean circulation patterns up a notch for a period and heat is drawn down from the surface to the next level, to be replaced with colder water from below.

The loss of Arctic Sea ice could alter ocean circulation patterns and trigger changes in global climate patterns.

New evidence is also suggesting that changes in ocean circulation patterns played a very important role in bringing warmer seawater into the North Atlantic.

Also, recent research has tied 20th century temperature fluctuations in northern California, and much of the Pacific Northwest, to naturally occurring atmospheric / ocean circulation patterns over the Pacific Ocean.

If this current rate of freshwater influx into the oceans continues to rise, it could have a large - scale impact on ocean circulation patterns in the North Atlantic, the team reports in the December 13 issue of the journal Science.

Peralta ‐ Ferriz, C., J.H. Morison, J.M. Wallace, J.A. Bonin, and J. Zhang, Arctic Ocean circulation patterns revealed by GRACE, J. Climate, 27, 1445 - 1468, doi: 10.1175 / JCLI - D -13-00013.1, 2014.

Sea ice can strongly affect global systems, influencing ocean circulation patterns, levels of reflected radiation (10, 11), and rates of climate change (12).

For instance, Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Germany and his colleagues published a paper in 2008 that suggested ocean circulation patterns might cause a period of cooling in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, even though the long - term pattern of warming remained in effect.

A University of Utah study suggests something amazing: Periodic changes in winds 15 to 30 miles high in the stratosphere influence the seas by striking a vulnerable «Achilles heel» in the North Atlantic and changing mile - deep ocean circulation patterns, which in turn affect Earth's climate.

Ongoing changes in ocean circulation patterns, which are helping to drive warm water from other parts of the sea closer to the Antarctic continent, are also believed to be a major factor.

The disappearance of the polar ice cap could also affect global ocean circulation patterns, and its melting has already imperiled native species such as the polar bear.

Still, much of what oceanographers know about large - scale ocean circulation patterns and about the velocity, kinetics, and seasonal variability of surface currents and eddies are based on ship drift data.

A fundamental element of today's climate system is a conveyor - like ocean circulation pattern that distributes vast quantities of heat and moisture around our planet.

And so a strong claim can be made that climate change is now at least partially responsible for all global weather although the part played by climate change could be small for any individual climate event relative to other causes such as normal ocean circulation patterns.

USCG Station Sandy Hook is situated within an East Coast hot spot of rising seas, where natural subsidence, low - lying topography, and changing ocean circulation patterns contribute to above - average sea level rise.

The Australian researchers say their work suggests that other proposed causes for the large Arctic warming — such as changes in air and ocean circulation patterns, cloud cover and water vapor — are dwarfed by the effect of the decline in sea ice.

A new study of the ocean circulation patterns at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill reveals the significant role small - scale ocean currents play in the spread of pollutants.

«If these waters no longer sink, it could have far reaching affects for global ocean circulation patterns.»

That thinner ice is more vulnerable to rising temperatures, sunny days and ocean circulation patterns that can shove blocks of ice toward the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

They showed that temperatures warmed in both the North Pacific and Greenland, likely due to changes in ocean circulation patterns.

Natural factors contributing to past climate change are well documented and include changes in atmospheric chemistry, ocean circulation patterns, solar radiation intensity, snow and ice cover, Earth's orbital cycle around the sun, continental position, and volcanic eruptions.