Sentences with phrase «ocean salinity variations»

This small warming is likely a result of the natural alterations in global ocean currents which are driven by ocean salinity variations.

Gray believes that the increased atmospheric heat — which he calls a «small warming» — is ``... likely a result of the natural alterations in global ocean currents which are driven by ocean salinity variations.»

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(For instance, changes in wind or salinity or seaweed, surface warming in regions (in) sensitive to OHC, perhaps the southern oceans or perhaps NH / SH with their different proportions of land, or variations in the frequency / amplitude of a known oceanic wobble.)

Drushka, K., J. Sprintall, and S. T. Gille, 2014: Subseasonal variations in salinity and barrier - layer thickness in the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean, J. Geophys.

Climate models also indicate a geographical variation of sea - level rise due to non-uniform distribution of temperature and salinity and changes in ocean circulation.

It just occurred to me that variations in ocean salinity over geological time might affect cloud nucleation, in addition to affecting ocean circulation, CO2 solubility, etc..

In so far as their proposed salinity mechanism as a driver for the decadal variation in ocean heat mixing is concerned, they provide little in this paper to support it.

El Ni o an irregular variation of ocean current that, from January to February, flows off the west coast of South America, carrying warm, low - salinity, nutrient - poor water to the south; does not usually extend farther than a few degrees south of the Equator, but occasionally it does penetrate beyond 12 S, displacing the relatively cold Peruvian current; usually short - lived effects, but sometimes last more than a year, raising sea - surface temperatures along the coast of Peru and in the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, having disastrous effects on marine life and fiocean current that, from January to February, flows off the west coast of South America, carrying warm, low - salinity, nutrient - poor water to the south; does not usually extend farther than a few degrees south of the Equator, but occasionally it does penetrate beyond 12 S, displacing the relatively cold Peruvian current; usually short - lived effects, but sometimes last more than a year, raising sea - surface temperatures along the coast of Peru and in the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, having disastrous effects on marine life and fiOcean, having disastrous effects on marine life and fishing

The issue is that differences in mineral content, salinity, density, and temperature all affect how the ocean reacts to, and drives, changes in weather patterns, climate variations over years or decades, ocean current circulation, etc..

Here, we test a new proxy — the oxygen isotopic signature of individual benthic foraminifera — to detect rapid (i.e. monthly to decadal) variations in deep ocean temperature and salinity in the sedimentary record.

They have a significant effect on water salinity, pollution, carbon and nutrient levels, sea surface temperature, and other physical properties in these regions of the ocean, and the variations they cause can, in turn, affect the well - being of marine ecosystems and climate.

This ocean - to - land moisture transport leaves an imprint on sea surface salinity, making this «nature's rain gauge» to measure the variations of the water cycle.

«Although long considered implausible, there is growing promise for probabilistic climatic forecasts one or two decades into the future based on quasiperiodic variations in sea surface temperatures (SSTs), salinities, and dynamic ocean topographies.

The height variations of ocean surface topography can be as much as two meters and are influenced by ocean circulation, ocean temperature, and salinity.»

Unlike most oceans, where density gradients are determined by both salinity and temperature, Arctic Ocean waters are heavily stratified primarily because of variations in salinity.

In this paper, it is shown that coherent large - scale low - frequency variabilities in the North Atlantic Ocean — that is, the variations of thermohaline circulation, deep western boundary current, northern recirculation gyre, and Gulf Stream path — are associated with high - latitude oceanic Great Salinity Anomaly events.