Sentences with phrase «ocean surface exposed»

Another precursor is more floating ice than usual, which reduces the amount of ocean surface exposed to the winds, in turn reducing evaporation.

Not exact matches

Crevice and pitting corrosion isn't the kind of widespread surface rusting you may see on the hulls of old ships exposed to the ocean.

Squeezed by 1.5 times Earth's atmospheric pressure yet buoyant under one - seventh Earth's gravity, humans on its surface would feel more like divers under an ocean than astronauts on exposed airless rocks in space.

The ocean surface is typically near freezing because it's constantly exposed to subzero air temperatures.

The researchers say both types of landscape show that cracks or molten regions in the ice have repeatedly exposed the ocean below to the surface.

The researchers had expected the ocean to play a bigger role in eroding away the coastline, as it has elsewhere — especially as climate change is causing more Arctic sea ice to melt away, leaving the surface of the water exposed.

My take on this is that in August the Arctic Ocean's ice carapace reaches its minimum and consequently the maximum surface area of the coldest sea water on the planet is exposed to the atmosphere.

And air temperatures over exposed land surfaces should warm differently than air temperatures over sea ice, especially when open ocean separates them.

In fact they accelerate evaporation in any situation where the surface is exposed to non-saturated air which is most of the time even over the ocean.

IF we had say, a bowl of frigid ocean water — and we immersed a sun warmed rock into that bowl of frigid ocean water, till 70 % of it was covered — then whipped the exposed surface of the rock with air that was many degrees colder than the exposed rock surface --

Still, they indicate that some areas of the ocean are heating up especially fast, such as the Arctic Ocean — which this year had its lowest winter ice year on record — and is absorbing much more solar energy as melting ice cover exposes new dark surfocean are heating up especially fast, such as the Arctic Ocean — which this year had its lowest winter ice year on record — and is absorbing much more solar energy as melting ice cover exposes new dark surfOcean — which this year had its lowest winter ice year on record — and is absorbing much more solar energy as melting ice cover exposes new dark surfaces.

«The fastest alterations occur at the surface, where the ocean is directly exposed to the rising carbon dioxide concentration and increasing temperature of the atmosphere.

The idea is that Arctic sea ice decline would expose the ocean to anomalous surface heat and freshwater fluxes, resulting in positive buoyancy anomalies that can propagate downstream to the North Atlantic, in due time suppressing deep convection and weakening the AMOC.

The reason, Werner said, is because the loss of snow and ice makes the earth's surface less reflective, meaning solar radiation — or heat — is absorbed in greater amounts by the exposed dark ocean or tundra.

8) More solar energy reaches the surface and in particular the oceans as more ocean surfaces either side of the equator are exposed to the sun by the movement of the clouds to cover more continental regions.

In the polar regions, where few such storms occur, heating by greenhouse gases remains at the surface, and is exacerbated by the melting of bright sea ice that exposes more of the dark ocean surface and causes more sunlight to be absorbed.

When melting ice disappears from the arctic, it exposes more of the ocean's dark surface, which absorbs the sun's warming rays.

The oceans are frigid at depth, and the rate at which those cool waters are exposed to the surface is not constant.

The retreat exposes soil, rock, and ocean surfaces, which absorb light and heat, causing further melting.10, 11 (See Jakobshavn Isbræ and Helheim glacier hotspots for more information on albedo.)

All this melting has begun to expose rock and soils (and ocean in areas where sea ice has melted), which in turn causes further melting, because darker surfaces absorb more heat.

This has to do with the change in the nature of the contact between atmosphere and the surface (e.g., minima increase sharply where ice and snow cover have retreated exposing either ocean or land, maxima increase more where the land surface has dried).

As sea - ice melts, it exposes a much darker ocean surface, which absorbs more radiation — amplifying the warming.

Amplifying feedbacks include increased absorption of sunlight as melting exposes darker surfaces and speedup of iceberg discharge as the warming ocean melts ice shelves that otherwise inhibit ice flow.

Warmer and significantly larger ocean surfaces also allow considerably more CO2 to evaporate into the atmosphere during warm periods (your soda pop after it is exposed for an hour goes flat — same principle).

The melting of glaciers such as Jakobshavn Isbræ has also begun to expose rock, soil, and ocean waters, which in turn causes further melting, because darker surfaces absorb more heat.

This increases the surface area of exposed, dark ocean water, and promotes a self - reinforcing cycle of land and sea ice melting and climate warming.

As sea ice melts, darker ocean water is exposed; the additional energy absorbed by the darker surface then melts more ice, setting in motion a self - reinforcing feedback.

Less solar energy reaches the surface and in particular the oceans as less ocean surfaces north of the equator are exposed to the sun by the movement of the clouds to cover more oceanic regions.

Our climate model exposes amplifying feedbacks in the Southern Ocean that slow Antarctic bottom water formation and increase ocean temperature near ice shelf grounding lines, while cooling the surface ocean and increasing sea ice cover and water column stabiOcean that slow Antarctic bottom water formation and increase ocean temperature near ice shelf grounding lines, while cooling the surface ocean and increasing sea ice cover and water column stabiocean temperature near ice shelf grounding lines, while cooling the surface ocean and increasing sea ice cover and water column stabiocean and increasing sea ice cover and water column stability.

Heat propagates upward from the sea surface, and low - level winds flowing atop the exposed ocean thus end up warmer.

When sea ice melts, the dark - coloured ocean surface is exposed.

The more ice melts in the arctic, the more ocean surface is exposed to the sky.