Sentences with phrase «ocean systems across»

She is also a Nereus fellow, which means she is part of the collaborative Nereus program between six leading marine science institutes with the aim of undertaking research that advances our comprehensive understandings of the global ocean systems across the natural and social sciences, from oceanography and marine ecology to fisheries economics and impacts on coastal communities.

Not exact matches

Mission requirements change, people come and go, homes move across oceans, and in most cases family and support systems are located hundreds if not thousands of miles away.

Using an earth system modeling approach, Deutsch and scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Georgia Institute of Technology mapped out changing oxygen levels across the world's oceans through the end of the 21st century.

«This isn't a surveillance system that monitors vessel movements across the oceans in real time, like radar tracking of aircraft in the sky; instead we have proposed a system which records images every time a satellite passes over specific points of the sea.

«The results of this study are also unprecedented in their remarkable consistency across a very large set of vastly different ecological systems throughout the world's oceans,» he adds.

If that were true, these systems would have to cross the African continent before tracking across the Indian ocean, the Malay Archipelago, the Pacific — perhaps stopping off for a rest in Hawaii — before finally crossing the Yucatán peninsula and arriving in the Caribbean.

Meeting this need will require enhanced international co-operation across disciplines as enshrined by the Global Ocean Observing System, and the associated, nascent Deep Ocean Observing Strategy.

Coastal and boundary current systems with a focus on processes that link the nearshore and continental shelf to the open ocean, such as along - and across - shore transport processes, stirring and mixing of water masses, and the coastal response to larger - scale forcing events; long - duration, high - resolution observations using autonomous underwater gliders.

Also, the reason most publishers print books here in the states (and not in China) is two fold — the US uses a different measurement system than most other countries and that affects available paper sizes, and it's REALLY expensive to SHIP all that heavy paper across the ocean (and takes a REALLY long time).

Perched dramatically between 40 to 60 meters above sea level, this ocean - front villa offers spectacular panoramic views to the west and north over the Andaman Sea and Nakalay Beach and to the south across Patong Bay.This property has indoor and outdoor amenities with the «WOW» factor including a projection TV room, three separate outdoor jetted tubs and a state - of - the - art centralized sound system.

- 40 - inch satellite TV, DVD, Bose music system, safe, bar fridge THE GARDEN SUITES - Two guest bedroom suites, each occupying its own vaulted pavilion - Entrance across lotus ponds, with shred outdoor seating area - Air - conditioned, with four - poster king - size beds and sitting area - Air - conditioned bathrooms with bathtub, double vanity, walk - in monsoon shower and alfresco shower in private walled garden - Both rooms have 32 - inch satellite TVs, DVD player, Bose iPod dock, safe and bar fridge THE DOUBLE STOREY OCEAN - VIEW PAVILION - Two guest suites, each with separate private access from the garden as well as an internal staircase — convenient for families with children, or can be closed off to maintain privacy between both rooms - Both have large terraces with breakfast area and seating - Upper bedroom has an entrance lobby, separate lobby with bar fridge and kettle, walk - in dressing area, twin vanities, walk - in monsoon shower and alfresco shower - Upper bedroom has a king - size four - poster bed, a trundle bed for two nannies in the dressing area, and a 26 - inch TV with satellite channels, DVD player and Bose dock - Lower level bedroom has twin beds that can be converted into a king, 40 - inch satellite TV, safe, bar fridge and a bathroom with bathtub, double vanity and walk - in monsoon shower

Not long now before all these dynamics in the climate system being driven by global warming from GHGs will line up almost all at once like dominoes (from the Arctic to the antarctic and across all continents and oceans).

In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans.

The massive water system is thought to stretch for 3,700 miles across the Amazon basin with an average width of about 200 miles, flowing west to east into the Atlantic Ocean at a rate of 350 feet a year.

Polar ice advances and retreats, storm systems come and go, and surface currents meander across the oceans.

One year (August 1998ï ¿ 1/2 July 1999) of tropical rainfall estimates from the Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks (PERSIANN) system were used to produce monthly means of rainfall diurnal cycles at hourly and 1ï ¿ 1/2 ï ¿ 1/2 1ï ¿ 1/2 scales over a domain (30ï ¿ 1/2 Sï ¿ 1/2 30ï ¿ 1/2 N, 80ï ¿ 1/2 Eï ¿ 1/2 10ï ¿ 1/2 W) from the Americas across the Pacific Ocean to Australia and eastern Asia.

Indeed, as I argue in this article, I think it will be absolutely essential that we shift much of our current wasteful fossil fuel use (e.g., shipping the same goods back and forth across the ocean, driving gas - powered private automobiles, and producing disposable consumer goods) toward building new infrastructure for long - term resilience (e.g., local food economies, low - energy housing, greenspace, water catchment and storage, clean energy systems, trains, and, yes, wind - powered sea vessels!).

This analysis explores the costs associated with future scenarios for the electricity system across the eastern and midwestern U.S., which supplies electricity to 39 states from the Rockies to the Atlantic Ocean.

I think you actually need to go out on a ship with various models of buckets, along with the most accurate temperature measurement system available, sail across the oceans for a year, take systematic measurements with the different methods, and THEN draw conclusions.

This requires re-thinking of many observing strategies and often calls for an approach (within and across - disciplines) based on compromise to building a fit - for - purpose global ocean observing system.

Increased literature has facilitated comprehensive assessment across a broader set of topics and sectors, with expanded coverage of human systems, adaptation, and the ocean.»

The IPCC reported that «warming of the climate system is unequivocal» and that «changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans.»

In an article on September 12, I reported on a 2012 paper by Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University and Stephen Vavrus of the University of Wisconsin, which showed that the loss of Arctic summer sea ice cover is adding enough heat to the ocean and atmosphere that it is helping to redirect the jet stream — the fast - moving high - altitude river of air that steers storm systems across the northern hemisphere.

«Some systems operate at more than 235 decibels,» the NRDC has said, «producing sound waves that can travel across tens or even hundreds of miles of ocean.

This new concept of anthropogenic impacts on seawater pH formulated here accommodates the broad range of mechanisms involved in the anthropogenic forcing of pH in coastal ecosystems, including changes in land use, nutrient inputs, ecosystem structure and net metabolism, and emissions of gases to the atmosphere affecting the carbon system and associated pH. The new paradigm is applicable across marine systems, from open - ocean and ocean - dominated coastal systems, where OA by anthropogenic CO2 is the dominant mechanism of anthropogenic impacts on marine pH, to coastal ecosystems where a range of natural and anthropogenic processes may operate to affect pH.

To explore the long - term effect of future ocean conditions on E. huxleyi, we grew strain CCMP 371 in continuous culture under simultaneously elevated pCO2 and temperature: «present» ocean conditions (383 ± 43 µatm pCO2 and 20.0 ± 0.1 °C average across all generation points) and «future» ocean conditions (833 ± 68 µatm pCO2 and 24.0 ± 0.2 °C average across all generation points; see table 1 for details of conditions and carbonate system parameters).

January 10, 2008 — Zigzagging some 60,000 kilometers across ocean floors, earth's system of mid-ocean ridges plays a pivotal role in many workings of the planet — from its plate - tectonic movements to heat flow from the interior, and the chemistry of rock, water and air...

He proposed the scheme to the investor of the «World Wireless System» for communications to relay telephone messages instantly across the ocean to broadcast music, news, stock market reports, private messages, secure military non-interferable communications, and pictures to any part of the world.

To avoid being bitten by this large ocean - roaming eating machine, I constructed elaborate Rube Goldberg-esque systems to turn off the light switch across the room from my top bunk.