Sentences with phrase «ocean records of»

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 cycles.

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According to a big chunk of ocean surface temperature recorded by boat, the oceans were not warming nearly as quickly as the rest of the planet.
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.
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.
The following is a sampling of the most recent crime records made available by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and local police departments serving Atlantis, Boynton Beach, Briny Breezes, Hypoluxo, Lantana, Manalapan, Ocean Ridge and South Palm...
A key Atlantic Ocean current that carries warmth into the higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere has slowed down by 15 % since the mid-20th century and hit a «new record...
The worst Atlantic Ocean hurricane ever recorded, Irma left at least eight people dead and a trail of destruction on Wednesday when it struck the islands of Barbuda, St Martin and St Barts.
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...
This peaceful sound combines the sound of ocean surf with 3D recordings of dolphins as they swim and sing around you.
Play soft music or white noise, such as recordings of ocean waves, and keep the room darkened during naps.
Add some soft music or «white noise» recordings of ocean waves or rainfall to create a soothing sleep environment.
Mum set the record of the oldest person ever to row an ocean, and we were the first (and so far only) mother and son team to do so.
Add all this to Donovan's strong electoral track record and the ocean of goodwill he has enjoyed with Island voters for years, and the Democrats will have a tough roe to hoe against Donovan next year, even with the Garner case on his docket.
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 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 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 temperature record shows the fluctuations of the temperature of the atmosphere and the oceans through various spans of time.
The finding surprised the University of Arizona - led research team, because the sparse instrumental records for sea surface temperature for that part of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean did not show warming.
For the ocean floor is a record, an eons - old accumulation of whatever has sunk down through the water to the bottom of the sea.
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.
These samples augment other marine records such as coral and seashells, which provide detailed records over a short time period, and deep - ocean sediments, which preserve thousands of years of history but are harder to date precisely.
NoMelt's ocean bottom seismometer array, with the assistance of Lamont's seismic research ship the Marcus G. Langseth, recorded data from earthquakes and other seismic sources from the middle of the plate over the span of a year.
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 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.
Instrumentation recording the activity is part of the NSF - funded Ocean Observatories Initiative.
Previous ocean sediment records suggest that, as the world slipped into the last glacial period, less carbon overall reached the sediments of the Southern Ocean, coinciding with declining atmospheric carbon dioocean sediment records suggest that, as the world slipped into the last glacial period, less carbon overall reached the sediments of the Southern Ocean, coinciding with declining atmospheric carbon dioOcean, coinciding with declining atmospheric carbon dioxide.
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.
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 underwater world is full of different natural sounds that can be recorded by cutting - edge underwater technology such as ocean bottom seismometers (OBS), that include hydro - and geophones.
Ocean sediment records, which contain evidence of carbon and nutrients, are one way to reconstruct that history.
«This highly unusual state of the atmosphere has been linked to record low sea ice cover during summer over the Arctic Ocean.
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.
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.
«This record of such an unusual and extremely rare fish is exciting, but its also an important reminder that we still have much to learn about the species that inhabit our oceans,» Grace added.
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 summer.
Right now, we're working on recording the genomes of the ocean.
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.
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