Sentences with phrase «ocean impacts»

Despite its climate - centric name and mission, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been focusing increasing attention on direct ocean impacts of carbon dioxide, most notably in an excellent 2011 report, «IPCC Workshop on Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biology and Ecosystems.»

An effort underway at PSD seeks to understand how oceans impact the atmosphere, specifically how oceans can influence the energy budget of hurricanes through heat transfer, wind stress due to waves, sea spray, formation of warm water areas, and the impact of precipitation on water temperature.

«The 2 °C target was all about warming and didn't involve consideration of ocean acidification in any direct way,» said University of Queensland professor Ove Hoegh - Guldberg, one of the lead authors of the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment chapter dealing with ocean impacts.

However, planetary scientist David Crawford of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, cautions that his own supercomputer calculations of ocean impacts produce tsunamis up to 10 times smaller than those in Ward and Asphaug's analysis.

Our waterways drain to the sea, a polluted ocean impacts the Channel Island ecosystem.

«This suggests new issues you could have with ocean impacts that people hadn't thought of before,» says Brian Toon of the University of Colorado at Boulder, who was not involved in the work.

As their efforts start to bear fruit, the ocean impacts of climate change may test the mettle of the burgeoning industry.

«After many decades of attempting to understand how the ocean impacts the atmosphere and clouds above it, it became clear a new approach was needed to investigate the complex ocean - atmosphere system.

Changes in the ocean impact the atmosphere and climate patterns around the globe.

The framing of ocean impacts in terms of risks to human health appeared to depoliticize perceptions.

The ocean impacts extremes primarily through its influence on cyclogenesis (developing low - pressure systems) and large - scale atmospheric circulation.

However, our understanding of how the ocean impacts the global mean surface temperature is strongly limited by available observations, which historically have consisted primarily of sea surface temperature (SST) measurements.