Sentences with phrase «ocean cycles played»

They also forget to mention the role that the great ocean cycles played in 20thC warming.

Not exact matches

Plankton plays an important role in the ocean's carbon cycle by removing half of all CO2 from the atmosphere during photosynthesis and storing it deep under the sea — isolated from the atmosphere for centuries.

Finding that limit — the goal of the 62 - day T - Limit campaign, part of the International Ocean Discovery Program — could guide estimates of the abundance and diversity of ocean floor microbes, which play large roles in biogeochemical cyOcean Discovery Program — could guide estimates of the abundance and diversity of ocean floor microbes, which play large roles in biogeochemical cyocean floor microbes, which play large roles in biogeochemical cycles.

Coastal waters play an important role in the carbon cycle by transferring carbon to the open ocean or burying it in wetland soils and ocean sediments, a new study shows.

The Indonesian archipelago sits in the Indo - Pacific Warm Pool, an expanse of ocean that supplies a sizable fraction of the water vapor in Earth's atmosphere and plays a role in propagating El Niño cycles.

The urine of a vast army of tiny fish, jellies and shrimpy things may play an important role in the ocean's nitrogen cycle.

It's broadly understood that the world's oceans play a crucial role in the global - scale cycling and exchange of carbon between Earth's ecosystems and atmosphere.

By demonstrating that key individual species within the ecosystem can play a disproportionally large role in carbon cycling, this study helps bring us a step closer to understanding the function these microbes play in larger questions of climate warming and increased acidity in the ocean.

At the time, Exxon had deployed a state - of - the - art supertanker outfitted with equipment for measuring marine CO2 concentrations to understand the role the oceans play in the world's carbon cycle.

Marine bacteria play a major role in the ocean's nutrient cycles.

Much of that work ties the phenomenon to ocean cycles, though volcanoes might also have a role to play.

In contrast to the traditional view of anthropogenic organic carbon export and degradation, we suggest that with the increase of wastewater discharge and treatment rates, wastewater DIC input may play an increasingly more important role in the coastal ocean carbon cycle.

Besides being adorable, these critters play an important role in our ocean ecosystems by providing habitat for others, helping balance the food chain, and facilitating nutrient cycling.

One does not have to worry about instabilities associated with ice sheets, feedback from the carbon cycle (even though this would seem to already be coming into play), or instabilities associated with ocean circulation.

Science marches on and each year will bring greater understanding of the roles that the ocean cycles, precipitation systems, cloud formation, and solar effects play in this gigantic system.

These include shellfish, snails, starfish, sea urchins and some sea worms that play an important part in cycling minerals in the ocean mud.

These previously unrecognized types of dark ocean bacteria may play an important role in the natural cycling of nutrients from the environment to organisms and back, the researchers write in the Sept. 2 issue of the journal Science.

It plays a crucial role in the carbon cycle — the exchange of carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and the oceans — and in the buffering of blood and other bodily fluids.

Examples of less certain science include understanding the effects of climate change on extreme weather in different regions, the role the deep ocean plays in the climate cycle and the rate at which sea level will rise over the next century.

He said he played plenty for his tuition but in two courses supposedly covering climate, he had not heard anything about the factors like multidecadal ocean cycles and the various ways cycles on the sun affect climate only greenhouse gases.

Plants and plankton influence the composition of the atmosphere, play a part in the water cycle, and regulate ocean chemistry.

External factors, like decreased solar and increased volcanic activity, have also played a role in the slowed surface warming, but internal variability due to ocean cycles appears to be the main culprit.

Solar cycles, aerosols, cloud cover and greenhouse gas concentrations each play a roll, and in general, increasing CO2, methane, and N2O in the troposphere will serve to reduce the net flow of energy from oceans to space.

Modelers have long ago concluded that iron fertilization of the ocean can play only a small role in managing the carbon cycle in the coming century.

Anyway, as I make the point here, The Greenhouse Effect is non-existant regardless of this mangling of real world physics, the comic cartoon of shortwave in and longwave out is stupid enough in claiming «that visible light heats ocean and lands and the heat direct from the Sun, thermal infrared, doesn't reach the Earth's surface and doesn't play any part in heating land and ocean», but, this warmist comic cartoon energy budget misses out the whole of the Water Cycle!

In regards to ocean cycles, clearly these also play their role, as short term fluctuations on top of a longer term trend.

Deposition of mineral dust plays an important role in the biogeochemical cycle of the oceans, by providing the nutrient iron, which affects ocean biogeochemistry with feedbacks to climate and dust production (Jickells et al., 2005; Section 7.3.4.4).

Coastal waters play an important role in the carbon cycle by absorbing carbon into sediments or transferring it to the open ocean, a new study confirms.

Key uncertainties include aspects of the roles played by clouds, the cryosphere, the oceans, land use and couplings between climate and biogeochemical cycles»

Definitely yes, at some point in the future (billions of years), something not experienced on Earth will be affecting the climate, but over the relatively shorter - term, the same physical mechanisms control the climate, just playing on variations on the combinations, timing, and intensity of those mechanisms: namely: Milankovitch cycles, GHG concentrations, ocean cycles, hydrological cycle, volcanic activity, solar cycles, biosphere interactions, location of continents, etc..

Ocean dynamics play a major role in moving heat around, and atmosphere - ocean interaction is a key to the ENSO cOcean dynamics play a major role in moving heat around, and atmosphere - ocean interaction is a key to the ENSO cocean interaction is a key to the ENSO cycle.

The oceans play a central role in the global carbon cycle, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide (CO2) that humans put into the air («anthropogenic carbon»), primarily by fossil fuel burning.