Sentences with phrase «ocean phenomena such»

Yet complex atmospheric and ocean phenomena such as hurricanes remain a difficulty in such studies, in part because of the computing power required.

Not exact matches

But behind such atmospheric phenomena are billions of tiny interactions between the air and microscopic drops of saltwater cast upward as bubbles on the ocean's surface burst.

Phenomena such as El Niño or La Niña, which warm or cool the tropical Pacific Ocean, can contribute to short - term variations in global average temperature.

These models aim to incorporate complex climate phenomena such as the fine structures of clouds, atmospheric rivers and ocean eddies.

The researchers paired MIT's global circulation model — which simulates physical phenomena such as ocean currents, temperatures, and salinity — with an ecosystem model that simulates the behavior of 96 species of phytoplankton.

Because existing phenomena — such as thermal expansion of water from warming — do not fully explain the corrected sea - level - rise number of 3.3 millimeters, stored heat in the deep ocean may be making a significant contribution, Cazenave said.

The same phenomenon may occur in other deep - diving whales when they are disturbed by human - generated noise in the oceans, which has been associated with strandings of deep - diving cetaceans such as beaked whales, she said.

Phenomena in the realm of nature, such as waterfalls, lightning and ocean waves, create negative ions and demonstrate their positive effects.

«They have identified human impact through phenomena such as: Transformed patterns of sediment erosion and deposition worldwide; major disturbances to the carbon cycle and global temperature; wholesale changes to the world's plants and animals; ocean acidification.

I take a very simple and basic view on scientific issues, such as: if there are «local» phenomena in the ocean such as El Nino why shouldnt there be local phenomena in the atmosphere even though the time scale for «locality» may be at a different pace.

The formation of large - scale mills in the southern oceans is an interesting phenomenon in this respect, although presumably oceanic computational fluid dynamical models may not necessarily reveal such complex vortex - type phenomena.

[1] The SPCZ can affect the precipitation on Polynesian islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, so it is important to understand how the SPCZ behaves with large - scale, global climate phenomenon, such as the ITCZ, El Niño — Southern Oscillation, and the Interdecadal Pacific oscillation (IPO), a portion of the Pacific decadal oscillation.

But unlike others, such as the 1991 cooling caused by the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, it is limited to ocean temperatures and is not associated with any known climatic or geological phenomenon.

Phenomena such as El Niño and La Niña — which warm and cool the tropical Pacific Ocean and cause corresponding variations in global wind and weather patterns — contribute to short - term variations in global temperatures.

The MRE can be used as a proxy for its controlling factors so scientists can measure the MRE magnitude to understand such phenomena and disentangle processes of ocean circulation and its spatiotemporal changes, for example.

If someone can post, as several have, that radiation theory requires that phenomena such as ENSO must average out over long periods of time then they are ruling out the possibility of empirical investigation of ENSO, PDO, heat in the deep oceans, you name it.

The iconic climate curve, a combination of observed land and ocean temperatures, has quite a few ups and downs, most of which climate scientists can easily associate with natural phenomena such as large volcanic eruptions or El Nino events.

Additional interests include the effects of the Pacific Ocean on the climate of British Columbia and how those effects are transmitted through such phenomena as El Niño / Southern Oscillation, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, and the atmospheric teleconnections they induce.

Showing that the plateau is an ocean phenomenon directs one to the longer term ocean cycles such as ENSO which undermines the «global warming has stopped» impression.

Why are no official sources offering any reasonable explanations for such a phenomenon when ocean temperatures are 40 degrees F or higher?

Topics such as the predictability of weather phenomena, coupled ocean - atmosphere systems and anthropogenic climate change are among those included.

Scientific and societal requirements for ocean observing have evolved significantly over the past decade from being primarily focused on climate - related issues to include a much wider set of phenomena such as the degradation of coastal habitats, pollution, ocean acidification, over-exploitation of fisheries, biodiversity decline, de-oxygenation and more.

They also include models for things like: entry into and exit from Ice Ages, the effect of the Earth's orbit on climate, the earth's climate history on scales of thousands to millions of years, ocean - atmosphere couplings (e.g. heat transfer, CO2 sinks), decadal phenomena such as ENSO and the PDO.

They did not, the Met Office now accepts, take sufficient account of «natural variability» — the effects of phenomena such as ocean temperature cycles — which at least for now are counteracting greenhouse gas warming.

Phenomena such as El Niño or La Niña, which warm or cool the tropical Pacific Ocean, can contribute to short - term variations in global average temperature.

Instead D'Aleo contends that the global warming trend correlates more closely with other phenomena such as solar activity and ocean current oscillations.

The medieval warm period and little ice age (whther they are local or global phenomena) are believed to be associated with thermohaline circulations in the atlantic; correct simulation of such long term internal oscillations in an ocean basin requires long term simulations for the ocean for which we don't really have any observational constraints.

Includes such topics as the formation of rocks and minerals; internal and external processes modifying the earth's surface and phenomena; and the evolutionary history of the earth, including its life forms, oceans and atmosphere.