Sentences with phrase «ocean interactions with»

Even ocean / atmosphere mass transfer effects on LOD are communicated to land mainly through ocean interactions with the continents.

Not exact matches

The Earth's climate system is characterised by complex interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, ice sheets, landmasses and the biosphere (parts of the world with plant and animal life).

Kadri says the results may help scientists connect interactions between not only surface and deep ocean waters, but also with the atmospheric forces that affect surface waves.

The researchers studied the winds and their interaction with the ocean in a recently developed reconstruction of 20th century climate.

The request also calls for canceling five NASA earth science missions, including an operating Earth - facing camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite and the planned Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite, set for launch in 2022, which would assess the ocean's health and its interactions with the atmosphere.

And the Atlantic is not the only ocean on the globe with such mercurial currents: A similar effort to understand the dynamics of the southern ocean around Antarctica would help explain the complexity of ocean and climate interactions.

Supported by the Natural Environment Research Council, the Centre hosts multidisciplinary teams of scientists and engineers who study the oceans and their interaction with Earth.

The amount of rocking of the magnetic field, caused by its interaction with Jupiter's own immense magnetosphere, provides evidence that the moon has a subsurface ocean of saline water.

On average, Antarctic sea ice may be considerably thicker than once thought, which could significantly change how scientists assess sea ice dynamics and their interactions with the ocean in a warming world.

During her half - hour of interaction with the class, McNutt said, students asked questions ranging from the feasibility of the OTEC, or Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion — a strategy for harvesting energy from the oceans — to whether deforestation in Africa «might actually have a silver lining if it leads to ocean iron fertilization.&rOcean Thermal Energy Conversion — a strategy for harvesting energy from the oceans — to whether deforestation in Africa «might actually have a silver lining if it leads to ocean iron fertilization.&rocean iron fertilization.»

Recent advances have improved NOAA's intensity forecasts by 20 percent, but there are so many variables influencing the developing of a hurricane — from the energy they draw from the oceans to their interactions with the surrounding environment and their dynamic inner cores — that storms like Matthew befuddle many experts.

The NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, with a target launch within the next 5 years, aims to make measurements that will advance ocean and atmospheric science and facilitate interdisciplinary studies involving the interaction of the atmosphere with ocean biological sysOcean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, with a target launch within the next 5 years, aims to make measurements that will advance ocean and atmospheric science and facilitate interdisciplinary studies involving the interaction of the atmosphere with ocean biological sysocean and atmospheric science and facilitate interdisciplinary studies involving the interaction of the atmosphere with ocean biological sysocean biological systems.

Should the frontal system which supports these blooms also migrate, reduced interaction of the SACCF with the South Georgia shelf may have grave implications for the sustainability of the rich ecosystem and the efficiency of carbon - export into the oceans interior.

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.

Each new attempt has advanced our understanding of the ocean system and its interaction with the rest of the planet.

Icarus - In this context it doesn't really matter where the CO2 is coming from (since it becomes well - mixed in the air over less than a few years), though the most plausible hypotheses usually require the Southern Ocean to be involved, and the associated feedbacks of ocean biogeochemistry and its interaction with the ocean's physical circulaOcean to be involved, and the associated feedbacks of ocean biogeochemistry and its interaction with the ocean's physical circulaocean biogeochemistry and its interaction with the ocean's physical circulaocean's physical circulation.

Watterson, I.G., 2001: Zonal wind vacillation and its interaction with the ocean: Implications for interannual variability and predictability.

Engagement with international user communities can take diverse forms, including closer interaction to better target their needs for ocean observing networks and derived products while better informing management decisions.

For those who want to get even closer to some of the ocean's most interesting creatures, SeaWorld's animal encounters can be a dream come true: Dolphin Interactions allows guests to feed, touch and play with bottlenose dolphins; Beluga Interactions offer a unique chance to enter the water with beluga whales, gentle giants known as «sea canaries» for their bird - like vocalizations.

Scripps also studies the interaction of the oceans with both the atmospheric climate and environmental concerns on terra firma.

The problem with the paleoclimate ice sheet models is that they do not generally contain the physics of ice streams, effects of surface melt descending through crevasses and lubricating basal flow, or realistic interactions with the ocean.

However, the ocean is very strongly stratified, and the interaction with the bulk of the deep cold water is very slow — it is generally the upper ocean that determines the time scale for the transient warming we might expect.

Actually, as an ocean / climate interactions student, I am happy to say that I basically agree with you on this.

(«On decadal to century timescales, climate dynamics — the complex interplay of multiple external forcings (rapid and slow), the spectrum of atmospheric and ocean circulation oscillations, interactions with biosphere — determines variations in climate.»)

Further to Aaron's post in # 15, if the current generation of GCM's do not properly include ice sheet dynamics and interactions with the oceans etc, are not the pdf's and their moments compromised and if so to what extent?

It stands to reason that the oceans haven't been that warm in a while but since the average temperature of the whole mass of water is so dependent on circulation (it's only the surface temperature that's constrained by its interactions with the atmosphere and space), I suppose a plausible history of that particular value would be very hard to reconstruct.

Now, experts guess that if we don't significantly change our interaction with the ocean, coral reefs will be all but wiped out by that same time.

I do think it has been clear for a while that interactions with the ocean provide the greatest potential for surprises and rapid changes, and that Greenland's ice sheet would mostly pull out of the ocean before it lost most of its mass.

The Arctic sea ice, for instance, has timescales of around 5 years to a decade, and so a collapse of summer ice cover could conceivably be reversed in a «cooling world» after only a decade or so (interactions with the Arctic ocean stratification may make that take a little longer though).

On unreliability of models see O'Reilly et al. (2012), pp. 721 - 22; «there is still no robust, credible model for the interaction of melting ice sheets with the ocean,» Holland and Holland (2015).

And since the Southern Ocean SST anomaly trend over this period is negative, its interaction with the Southern Hemisphere oceans lowers the trend of the dataset.

Within ocean models, the inclusion of geochemical and biological interactions has begun, with a focus upon the carbon cycle.

The interaction of ocean and atmosphere is a complicated one, with a number of factors at work that influence the growth of sea ice.

The project will also analyze changes in oceanic circulation and processes in an ice - depleted Arctic Ocean, and in its interactions with the sub arctic oceans.

One complete period takes about five years to complete but because of interactions with the ocean it can vary from two to seven years.

It aims to teach the skills and knowledge of the many disciplines needed to understand the nature of ocean - atmosphere interactions and how to link ocean - atmosphere interactions with climate and people.

The US CLIVAR Western Boundary Current Working Group was charged with identifying shortcomings in the atmosphere, ocean, and coupled models that need to be addressed to accurately model western boundary current atmosphere - ocean interaction.

Chemistry, once the UV, Ozone, Cosmic Ray interactions with the atmosphere, oceans, and biosphere are worked out.

The resulting temperature curve is a sine wave but it is distorted because of interactions with other phenomena in the ocean.

The institute investigates the chemical, physical, biological and geological processes of the seafloor, oceans and ocean margins and their interactions with the atmosphere.

As modeling of ocean temperatures and it's interaction with OTEC operations is refined, interest in this sustainable energy technology will keep on rising until it will hopefully be able to find a market of its own.

Some processes arise through interactions with other parts of the climate system such as the ocean (for example as manifested through sea surface temperature anomalies), sea ice anomalies, snow cover anomalies as well as through coupling to the circulation in the stratosphere.

«Ocean dynamics are directly connected to global climate through interactions with the atmosphere,» says John Dabiri, professor of civil and environmental engineering and of mechanical engineering at Stanford University and senior author of the paper in Nature.

This summer school is aimed at postgraduate students and early career scientists who would like to obtain a solid grounding in polar climate system science, with a particular focus on the atmosphere, ocean and sea ice and their interactions.

Antarctic Meteorology and its Interactions with the Cryosphere and the Ocean (AMICO), 2009 - 2016, Academy of Finland.

«In order to understand and statistically analyse the climate system and its interaction between the ocean, land, atmosphere and human activity, the comparison with a game of chance is no longer sufficient.

Lance, adrift in the ice, provided a base for 100 scientists and engineers who spent 3 to 6 weeks on board the vessel studying air - snow - ice - ocean interactions in a region with thinner sea ice.

Arising from changes in advective energy transports and poorly understood interactions with ocean dynamics, this is where uncertainty reigns supreme.

Dr. Michiel Schaeffer, Director / Senior Scientist Co-founder of Climate Analytics and head of our science team, bio-physicist with a PhD in dynamic meteorology, specialising in the interactions between atmosphere, ocean, eco-systems and society, author of the IPCC AR5 and the World Bank Turn Down the Heat reports.

Understanding the interactions of the atmosphere with the land and ocean is key to understanding the natural cycles of atmospheric gases and requires going beyond the earth's surface.