Sentences with phrase «ocean mass around»

The former redistributes ocean volume within the basins, while the latter alters Earth's gravitational field and rate of rotation enough to change the distribution of ocean mass around the surface of the Earth.

Not exact matches

Using more than a dozen instruments placed around the habitat, including a first - of - its - kind underwater mass spectrometer that tracks fluctuations in key gases up and down the ocean waters, aquanauts watch readouts in real time on computer screens.

The sun and moon tug on the planet, while the drift of continents, changes in ocean currents, and the rebounding of the crust since the retreat of ice age glaciers all shift mass around, altering Earth's moment of inertia and therefore its spin.

«It's very cool, because water can go underground, it can move around the ocean, it can change from ice to liquid and runoff, but it can't hide its mass from us,» says Watkins.

A new reconstruction of Antarctic ocean temperatures around the time the dinosaurs disappeared 66 million years ago supports the idea that one of the planet's biggest mass extinctions was due to the combined effects of volcanic eruptions and an asteroid impact.

Visitors can enter models of the explorers» base camps and view a computer map of Antarctica outlining the ocean currents around the continent and the land masses and mountains that lie hidden beneath the ice.

But now I really think this is going to transform oceanography by giving us a persistent presence in the ocean — a presence that doesn't require a boat, can operate in any weather condition, and can stay within the same water mass as it drifts around the open ocean.»

«The lineage has been around for hundreds of millions of years, but without the mass extinction event 66 million years ago, it is very likely that the oceans wouldn't be dominated by the fish we see today.»

Daniel Pauly, the study's lead author and principal investigator of the Sea Around Us at the Institute for the Ocean and Fisheries, explains that as fish grow into adulthood their demand for oxygen increases because their body mass becomes larger.

Given the same mass, ocean planets are around 40 to 50 percent larger than rocky planets (Fortney et al, 2007).

As ocean temperatures rise, coral reefs around the world have been heavily impacted from mass bleaching events and World Heritage - listed reefs are no exception.

WHEN SWEPT INSIDE GO THE LONG WAY AROUND THROUGH THE CHANNEL — DO N'T FIGHT AGAINST THE MASSES OF WATER AS THE WHOLE OCEAN PUSHES AGAINST YOU.

The mass of the oceans is around 500 times that of the atmosphere.

Besides these thousands of thermometer readings from weather stations around the world, there are many other clear indicators of global warming such as rising ocean temperatures, sea level, and atmospheric humidity, and declining snow cover, glacier mass, and sea ice.

When polar ice melts the earth changes shape: mass (ice) which was concentrated at the poles, with a short arm of inertia, is spread evenly around the ocean surface, averaging something like 63 degrees latitude.

That's what would be expected if the oceans became saltier when mass moved from oceans to land, not the other way around.

«By contrast, the eastern Antarctic and Antarctic plateau have cooled, primarily in summer, with warming over the Antarctic Peninsula [C3 Ed: approximately 4 % of Antarctica land mass]... Moreover, sea - ice extent around Antarctica has modestly increased... In other words, the authors find that most of the Antarctic continent has cooled, rather than just the Southern Ocean...»

The mass / weight / gravity / pressure / play of the fluid gaseous ocean of nitrogen and oxygen above us is the greenhouse / thermal blanket around the Earth.

The biggest difference is that the Arctic sea ice forms in a huge ocean surrounded by the northern hemisphere land masses, while the Antarctic sea ice forms as a fringe around a vast frozen continent.

Warming in the oceans hasn't slowed, and other impacts have accelerated — including Arctic ice melt, mass loss in ice sheets and glaciers, and a dramatic increase in heat waves around the world.

When measured over the open oceans or throughout most of the 96 % non-urbanized land masses of the earth, its around 350 ppm.

My curiosity is built around the assumption that the warmer air mass must have transferred heat to the ocean (warmer to colder) and that raises the thought that the atmosphere would have to get colder than the ocean for it (the air) to be warmed by the sea.

The rise of CO2 that led to this dramatic acidification occurred during the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a period when global temperatures rose by around 5 °C over several thousand years and one of the largest - ever mass extinctions in the deep ocean occurred.