Sentences with phrase «ocean records in»

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And in many, many cases — such as with ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, or ice shelf traveling speeds — scientists have recorded the data for decades, systematically, consistently, and with precision.

Just as southern Texas began to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, Florida and the Caribbean soon endured Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean.

So, on Aug. 28, 2012, we launched from the northernmost continually inhabited town in the world — Inuvik, Canada — in a bid to become the first team ever to complete an unsupported, non-stop, record - setting voyage across the Arctic Ocean.

Those tools can siphon off oceans of data — passwords, keystrokes, screen images, documents and, in some cases, recordings from computers» microphones and Web cameras — and send the information back to the attackers» Web servers.

In fact, it is the 2nd largest hurricane recorded to have happened in the Atlantic OceaIn fact, it is the 2nd largest hurricane recorded to have happened in the Atlantic Oceain the Atlantic Ocean.

Latest Forecast Suggests «Godzilla El Niño» May Be Coming to California: The strengthening El Niño in the Pacific Ocean has the potential to become one of the most powerful on record, as warming ocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once - in - a-generation storms this winter to drought - parched CalifornOcean has the potential to become one of the most powerful on record, as warming ocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once - in - a-generation storms this winter to drought - parched Californocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once - in - a-generation storms this winter to drought - parched California...

Which is precisely why, when we packed up the booth (in record time, to make it to the ocean before sunset), we decided to take a (major) detour on our next destination to hit the coast.

THE Great Barrier Reef has been so severely damaged by record ocean heat that it will never be the same again in our lifetimes or those of our grandchildren.

Forams have an exceptionally long fossil record, spanning more than 540 million years, and they are often well - preserved in ocean sediments.

Forams form their shells in concert with ocean temperatures and chemistry, acting as miniscule time capsules, each containing a precise record of the temperature and ocean chemistry during its lifetime.

But even earlier readings can provide a record of natural climate variation caused by volcanic eruptions or cycles in ocean circulation.

Álvaro Corral of the Centre for Mathematical Research in Barcelona, Spain, and colleagues looked at records of hurricanes from four ocean basins around the world between 1966 and 2007.

In some locations, seismograms have been faithfully recording every shake in the Earth's crust for nearly a century, meaning geologists can dissect what Bromirski calls the «treasure trove» of archived paper drums — and find out how ocean waves have changed over the last 100 yearIn some locations, seismograms have been faithfully recording every shake in the Earth's crust for nearly a century, meaning geologists can dissect what Bromirski calls the «treasure trove» of archived paper drums — and find out how ocean waves have changed over the last 100 yearin the Earth's crust for nearly a century, meaning geologists can dissect what Bromirski calls the «treasure trove» of archived paper drums — and find out how ocean waves have changed over the last 100 years.

When Joel Thornton at the University of Washington in Seattle and his colleagues looked at records of lightning strikes between 2005 and 2016 from the World Wide Lightning Location Network, they noticed there were significantly more strikes in certain regions of the east Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, compared with the surrounding areas.

The devastating tsunami that was generated in the Indian Ocean in 2004 after a magnitude 9 earthquake has been recorded as one of the deadliest natural disasters in recent history after it caused over 230,000 deaths in 14 countries.

However, while rangeomorphs were highly suited to their Ediacaran environment, conditions in the oceans continued to change and from about 541 million years ago the «Cambrian Explosion» began — a period of rapid evolutionary development when most major animal groups first appeared in the fossil record.

Surprisingly, however, no imprint of the ocean's variability could be found in Western Europe's wintertime temperature record.

The main drivers of El Niño conditions, ocean temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific, were as high as 3 °C above the average, making this event one of the three most intense El Niños on record.

Tethered by a cable a half mile long, the vehicle will deliver a kettledrum - size unit called the Midwater Respirometry System (MRS) to the ocean floor, where it will record the respiration of the creatures it collects in its chambers.

Professor Linda Ivany» 88, in whose lab Moss is based, says bivalves are just as abundant in the fossil record as they are in today's oceans.

Researchers were astounded when, in the fall of 2007, they discovered that the year - round ice pack in the Arctic Ocean had lost some 20 percent of its mass in just two years, setting a new record low since satellite imagery began documenting the terrain in 1978.

In addition to the Asia heat wave, those events were the record global heat in 2016 and the growth and persistence of a large swath of high ocean temperatures, nicknamed «the Blob,» in the Bering Sea off the coast of AlaskIn addition to the Asia heat wave, those events were the record global heat in 2016 and the growth and persistence of a large swath of high ocean temperatures, nicknamed «the Blob,» in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaskin 2016 and the growth and persistence of a large swath of high ocean temperatures, nicknamed «the Blob,» in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaskin the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska.

The scientists, led by Eric Oliver of Dalhousie University in Canada, investigated long - term heat wave trends using a combination of satellite data collected since the 1980s and direct ocean temperature measurements collected throughout the 21st century to construct a nearly 100 - year record of marine heat wave frequency and duration around the world.

Despite the size of the bloom, however, the plankton did not take in a record - breaking amount of carbon dioxide — only about 20 % more carbon than that part of the ocean sequesters biologically each year.

To better understand the emerging biodiversity crisis in the modern oceans, Payne and his team turned to the fossil record as an archive of past planetary experiments in extinction.

More frequent and larger changes in the North Pacific High appear to originate from rising variability in the tropics and are linked to the record - breaking El Niño events in 1983, 1998, and 2016 and the 2014 - 2015 North Pacific Ocean heat wave known as «The Blob.»

Instead of going from sky to rain, into rivers, and then back into the oceans in the usual water cycle, it got stuck in Australia, caught up in record - breaking floods and rivers that run backwards into the continent.

The new sea - level record was then used in combination with existing deep - sea oxygen isotope records from the open ocean, to work out deep - sea temperature changes.

The wave - powered sub Papa Mau not only set a record while crossing the Pacific Ocean autonomously, it also studied rogue waves and other marine phenomena invisible to eyes in the sky

Now, using two deep cores collected at two Ocean Drilling Program sites in the Southern Ocean, Jaccard and colleagues have reconstructed ocean records of productivity and vertical overturning reaching back a million years, through multiple glacial - interglacial cyOcean Drilling Program sites in the Southern Ocean, Jaccard and colleagues have reconstructed ocean records of productivity and vertical overturning reaching back a million years, through multiple glacial - interglacial cyOcean, Jaccard and colleagues have reconstructed ocean records of productivity and vertical overturning reaching back a million years, through multiple glacial - interglacial cyocean records of productivity and vertical overturning reaching back a million years, through multiple glacial - interglacial cycles.

But for the other half of the picture — what happened in the oceans during that time — there is only a relatively short record extending back about 20,000 years to the last glacial cycle.

Studies of historical records in India suggest that reduced monsoon rainfall in central India has occurred when the sea surface temperatures in specific regions of the Pacific Ocean were warmer than normal.

In colder waters, ice coverage on the Arctic Ocean shrunk to 1.32 million square miles in September, the lowest ever recordeIn colder waters, ice coverage on the Arctic Ocean shrunk to 1.32 million square miles in September, the lowest ever recordein September, the lowest ever recorded.

Eelco Rohling, an ocean and climate scientist at the University of Southampton in England, has studied the paleoclimate record going back 50 million years.

Over time, an extensive fossil record of G. bulloides abundance at different points in history has accumulated on the ocean floor.

The world's oceans are currently in the midst of the third major die off — termed bleaching by scientists — ever recorded and the hot waters around Christmas Island have been dealing with the heat for months.

The records covered longline fishing in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean and included nine species of sharks.

In addition, the report notes that three of the warmest years on record — 2014, 2015 and 2016 — occurred since the last report was released; those years also had record - low sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean in the summeIn addition, the report notes that three of the warmest years on record — 2014, 2015 and 2016 — occurred since the last report was released; those years also had record - low sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean in the summein the Arctic Ocean in the summein the summer.

The discovery, reported in the current issue of Nature Communications, logs a number of firsts: the first record of ancient tsunami activity found in a sea cave; the first record for such a long time period in the Indian Ocean; and the most pristine record of tsunamis anywhere in the world.

The record indicates that 11 tsunamis were generated during that period by earthquakes along the Sunda Megathrust, the 3,300 - mile - long fault running from Myanmar to Sumatra in the Indian Ocean.

Scientists» understanding of the climate during the Pliocene has largely been pieced together from fossil records preserved in sediments deposited beneath lakes and on the ocean floor.

According to NOAA scientists, the globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for August 2014 was the highest for August since record keeping began in 1880.

«This paper is significant because it identifies a link between ocean conditions and the magnitude of the toxic bloom in 2015 that resulted in the highest levels of domoic acid contamination in the food web ever recorded for many species,» said co-author Kathi Lefebvre, a marine biologist at NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center.

We've narrowed the uncertainty in surface warming projections by generating thousands of climate simulations that each closely match observational records for nine key climate metrics, including warming and ocean heat content.»

Record warmth was observed across much of the central and western equatorial Pacific along with sections scattered across the eastern Pacific and regions of the western Indian Ocean, particularly notable in the waters east of Madagascar.

«We used the fossil record to show, in a concrete, convincing way, that what is happening in the modern oceans is really different from what has happened in the past,» said study co-author Noel Heim, a postdoctoral researcher in Payne's lab.

Not even a massive outpouring of carbon 56 million years ago (recorded in this ocean sediment core as the 25 - centimeter - long red band) comes close, a new study suggests.

Stokstad (p. 1504) covers improvements in shrimp aquaculture, and Kaiser (p. 1506) sets the record straight on the ocean's garbage patches.

A few days after the Indian Ocean tsunami struck in December, a semianonymous user named Camiseta created a compilation of home video recordings of the disaster.

It is important that genomes in the ocean be recorded as they are now, Falkowski says, because the coming change could happen quickly.