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Cells had carbon to nitrogen (C: N) ratios (figure 1) of approximately 11 in both treatments at the 215 and 703 generation points, though the ratio was lower in future ocean conditions at the 703 generation point (t - test t8 = 0.62, p = 0.55 at 215 generations; t10 = 2.7, p = 0.026 at 703 generations).

POC content (figure 2b) did not dramatically differ between present and future ocean conditions at 215 and 414 generations (t - test t20 = 2.7, p = 0.02 at 215 generations, t - test with Welch correction, t16 = 1.5, p = 0.15 at 414 generations), though values were between 10 and 28 % higher in the future ocean condition (table 4).

Melted away from below by warming deep ocean conditions at the rate of up to 70 meters or around 230 feet per annum.

and even if you were thinking about doing it in the «calmer» season (summer, early fall) you should be experienced ocean swimmer and be able to read Hawaii's ocean conditions at all times.

Please note that beach and ocean conditions at the resort change with the seasons.

Not exact matches

One explanation for why the season is so active is that all of the components that make hurricanes are near ideal conditions: The ocean waters are at their warmest they get all year (and are somewhat hotter than usual).

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.

It will need to study atmospheric and ocean conditions, move around sea beds, and hover at or below the surface.

«Volcanic aerosols in the stratosphere absorb infrared radiation, thereby heating up the stratosphere, and changing the wind conditions subsequently,» said Dr. Matthew Toohey, atmospheric scientist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

Dr Martin Ziegler, Cardiff University School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, said: «We found that South Africa experienced rapid climate transitions toward wetter conditions at times when the Northern Hemisphere experienced extremely cold conditions.»

These findings from University of Melbourne Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, reported in Nature Climate Change, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial conditions.

The team's next steps include looking more closely at specific ocean swell events and sea ice conditions during known ice shelf collapses and large iceberg calving events.

«Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is entering the ocean almost everywhere, but local environmental conditions can magnify its effects,» said Sarah Cooley, a marine chemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts.

This past June scientists at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi reported that the eyewall's extreme conditions can stir up ocean currents 300 feet below the surface, disrupting sediment and organisms on the seafloor for as long as a week after the storm subsides.

«This paper is significant because it identifies a link between ocean conditions and the magnitude of the toxic bloom in 2015 that resulted in the highest levels of domoic acid contamination in the food web ever recorded for many species,» said co-author Kathi Lefebvre, a marine biologist at NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center.

This enabled the research team to reconstruct, for the first time, a detailed picture of the environmental conditions at the ocean's surface, as well as in deeper water layers, over the last 30,000 years.

A study led by researchers at the University of Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration connects the unprecedented West Coast toxic algal bloom of 2015 that closed fisheries from southern California to northern British Columbia to the unusually warm ocean conditions — nicknamed «the blob» — in winter and spring of that year.

Year - round ice - free conditions across the surface of the Arctic Ocean could explain why Earth was substantially warmer during the Pliocene Epoch than it is today, despite similar concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to new research carried out at the University of Colorado Boulder.

«Urban organics» thus remain at higher levels longer, says Canuel, «delivering more organic material to the river mouth and increasing the likelihood that low - oxygen conditions will develop in downstream locations such as estuaries and the coastal ocean.»

In extreme conditions — in this case, magma - heated water at an ocean depth of nearly 10,000 feet — things work a little differently.

Europa has a global ocean locked away beneath a crust of ice; deep below, the moon's internal heat might create hospitable conditions, akin to hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the mid-Atlantic ridge and East Pacific Rise on Earth.

The Wave Glider, a long - duration ocean robot designed to operate in stormy conditions and high latitudes, can stay at sea for months patrolling for illegal fishing, listening for seismic events, collecting weather or ocean data and monitoring the environment.

At least over the oceans, the pre-industrial cloud conditions would have been considerably different from those of today; this implies that the aerosols we have been adding to the atmosphere may have had a significant effect on global patterns of cloud formation and rain.

Potentially extremely dangerous realistic rogue waves — also called as freak waves — can now be controlled and generated at will in laboratory environments, in similar conditions as they appear in the ocean.

«We have little data on the ocean and ice shelf conditions in this region,» says Fernando Paolo, a geophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

Two groups of urchins were held at different pH levels — one that was low pH, akin to ocean acidification conditions, and another that mimicked normal non-upwelling pH conditions.

Because purple sea urchin females can condition their progeny to experience future stress, the urchins have tools at hand to respond to changes like ocean acidification.»

They also looked at recent ocean conditions, in particular the temperature of the sea surface near Japan and Florida the winter before a given breeding season.

At first, these spicules are nothing more than chalk, but when combined with sea urchin proteins, they form tiny stacks of «bricks,» creating a structure that provides some of the toughest defense against predators and harsh ocean conditions.

A team of biologists from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the University of Florida has now been able to demonstrate with the comb jellyfish Mnemiopsis leidyi that, at least in this type of jellyfish, the mechanism of regeneration can be changed depending on the environmental conditions.

So far, these early results showed that physical conditions where the air and the ocean interact must be a vital part of any successful hurricane forecasting model and would help explain, and predict, how a storm might intensify as it moves through across the water based on the physical stress at the ocean's surface.

«Changes in ocean conditions that affect fish stocks, such as temperature and oxygen concentration, are strongly related to atmospheric warming and carbon emissions,» said author Thomas Frölicher, principal investigator at the Nippon Foundation - Nereus Program and senior scientist at ETH Zürich.

Ed Miles, a professor of marine studies and public affairs at the University of Washington, said the prospect of a coordinated federal ocean acidification research program is welcome news, especially given the conditions Feely observed off the California coast in 2008.

The findings presented at the Society of Marine Mammalogy's Biennial Conference in San Francisco demonstrate that humpback foraging responds to environmental changes, and illustrates how marine mammals serve as sentinels of ever - changing ocean conditions.

As any sailor knows, conditions at the ocean's surface can change in a moment.

With ENSO - neutral conditions present during the first half of 2013, the January — June global temperature across land and ocean surfaces tied with 2003 as the seventh warmest such period, at 0.59 °C (1.06 °F) above the 20th century average.

With the sun continuing to heat the ocean water at the tropical latitudes regardless of ice cap conditions up north, it would seem that the presence of an ice cap would result in a warmer ocean over the long term, with the converse also being true.

Mars is thought to have contained oceans with similar conditions to those near hydrothermal vents at around the same time the fossils were thriving, living creatures.

«The big question is whether the ice sheet will react to these changing ocean conditions as rapidly as it did 14,000 years ago,» said lead author Dr Nick Golledge, a senior research fellow at Victoria's Antarctic Research Centre.

But then the team filled the aquarium with water at a lower pH, creating conditions similar to what scientists predict for oceans around the year 2050.

Looking only at the present - day sea - surface temperatures will tell little until it is put in perspective with the assumed normal ocean conditions.

Scientists compare primitive Earth scenario with satellite Europa's conditions; the jupiterian moon could host microorganisms at the bottom of a huge warm ocean located underneath its frozen crust.

Field observations of microbes recovered from deep drill cores, deep mines, and the ocean floor, coupled with laboratory investigations, reveal that microbial life can exist at conditions of extreme temperatures (to above 110ºC) and pressures (to > 10,000 atmospheres) previous thought impossible.

Researchers reconstructing ancient climates delve into the mineral for a record of temperature and atmospheric composition, environmental conditions and the state of the ocean at the time those minerals formed.

However, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a complex system with interactions between the ice and climate, the ocean, and conditions at the base of the ice sheet.

Once the driving force behind change at PIG was identified, future predictions could be made using different ocean condition scenarios, and the likelihood of significant retreat can be identified.

Jenkins, A., H.H. Hellmer, and D.M. Holland, The role of meltwater advection in the formulation of conservative boundary conditions at an ice - ocean interface, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31 (1), 285 - 296, 2001.

The technology brings together the power of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which yields a remarkable peek into molecular interactions, and the ability to re-create the extreme conditions found on the tundra, in the deep ocean, or underground — conditions relevant to some of the biggest questions that scientists at DOE laboratories such as PNNL ask.

Here we provide an overview of several technical developments by scientists and engineers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) that have enabled and enhanced deep - sea exploration and experiments to assess the effects of changing ocean conditions on benthic marine animals.

The cold conditions mean at present only 135 of more than 800 known fish species are found in latitudes north of where the UK sits, in either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.