Sentences with phrase «ocean phenomenon»

This was confirmed by an international campaign carried out by six ships and two aircraft in the early 1970s — another example of how studying ocean phenomena needed international cooperation.

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

Moreover, because of the persisting effects of the equatorial Pacific Ocean phenomenon known as El Niño, many experts are predicting that 2016 could set a new annual record.

The return of the global - weather - shifting Pacific Ocean phenomenon known as El Niño has been officially declared.

He also studies ocean phenomena like El Nino and the ocean's conveyor belt circulation, and is the lead NASA scientist for the Jason satellites.

After nearly a decade at URI, Evans became a program manager at the Office of Naval Research, which had supported much of his research on the interaction of small and large - scale ocean phenomena.

Although the Atlantic and Indian Ocean phenomena were discovered during TOGA, that experiment was set up mainly to unravel the interaction between the atmosphere and currents in the Pacific.

It should also be noted that the authors examined whether the large - scale ocean circulation, the Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC), and two other ocean phenomena - the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and Atlantic Meridional Oscillation (AMO)- could explain the warming in the 20th century simulations, but found no evidence in the models.

The Pacific Decadal Oscillation has the same temporal pattern of warm and cool surface water — which raises interesting questions about how these northern and southern hemisphere ocean phenomenon are linked.

I am sitting in Southern Australia writing this after one of the wettest Springs on record because of a La Nina event — an Ocean phenomenon.

This coupled atmosphere - ocean phenomenon, with preferred time scales of two to about seven years, is collectively known as the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO).

Global average air temperatures have increased relatively slowly since a high point in 1998 caused by the ocean phenomenon El Niño, but observations show that heat is continuing to be trapped in increasing amounts by greenhouse gases, with over 90 % disappearing into the oceans.

Another culprit is an ocean phenomenon called a warm core eddy, says Nick Shay, a professor of meteorology and oceanography at the University of Miami.