Sentences with phrase «ocean systems by»

He investigates the properties of polar ice - ocean systems by developing large - scale sea ice and ocean models such as the Pan-arctic Ice - Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS), the Global Ice - Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (GIOMAS), and the Marginal Ice Zone Modeling and Assimilation System (MIZMAS).

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Think of it this way: If you are in a boat on the ocean being bumped around by every wave without any navigation system or set course, you'll never get anywhere.

In this episode of Richard Garriott's miniseries, he shows us how Earth formed, how remnants of that formation still wander the solar system and how our planet came to be covered by oceans.

One unknown is how the addition of massive flows of freshwater from Siberian rivers, bolstered by thawing permafrost, could affect the system, says study co-author Eddy Carmack, an oceanographer with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Sidney.

Following the maxim of keeping everything as simple as possible, but not simpler, Will Steffen from the Australian National University and I drew up an Anthropocene equation by homing in on the rate of change of Earth's life support system: the atmosphere, oceans, forests and wetlands, waterways and ice sheets and fabulous diversity of life.

The Earth's climate system is characterised by complex interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, ice sheets, landmasses and the biosphere (parts of the world with plant and animal life).

The findings, published in the journal Proceedings of The Royal Society B, suggest that by disturbing predator - prey interactions, ocean acidification could spur cascading consequences for food web systems in shoreline ecosystems.

Indeed, Dr Kadri has already shown that naturally occurring AGWs could be utilised in an early tsunami detection system by placing detection systems in the deep ocean.

The Tibetan Plateau in China experiences the strongest monsoon system on Earth, with powerful winds — and accompanying intense rains in the summer months — caused by a complex system of global air circulation patterns and differences in surface temperatures between land and oceans.

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.

A new study led by the University of Maryland's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) suggests that a warmer Atlantic Ocean could substantially boost the destructive power of a future superstorm like Sandy.

The International Monitoring System (IMS), established by the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty, has a number of different ears to the ground to detect clandestine nuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions produce.

By applying the same analysis to approximately 150 tropical cyclones in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, they showed that the relationship held true for such low - pressure systems.

Aliens might want resources from our solar system (Earth's oceans, perhaps, full of hydrogen for refilling a fusion - powered spacecraft) and swat us aside if we get in the way, as we might dismiss mosquitoes or beetles stirred up by the logging of a rain forest.

The opposite occurred in 1997 and 1998, when warm surface waters in the Pacific Ocean brought about by El Niño pushed rainfall systems north, leaving parts of the southern and eastern Amazon forest dry and prone to fires.

So, in theory, if you could manage to lower the temperature of the surface of the ocean ahead of a hurricane by a few degrees, you could conceivably pull enough heat out of the system that the storm would start to wind itself down.

Lozier (p. 1507) discusses how recent studies have challenged our view of large - scale ocean circulation as a simple conveyor belt, by revealing a more complex and nuanced system that reflects the effects of ocean eddies and surface atmospheric winds on the structure and variability of the ocean's overturning.

Two pieces examine how climate change is affecting marine biological systems: Schofield et al. (p. 1520) illustrate and discuss the role of ocean - observation techniques in documenting how marine ecosystems in the West Antarctic Peninsula region are evolving, and Hoegh - Guldberg and Bruno (p. 1523) present a more global view of the ways in which marine ecosystems are being affected by rapid anthropogenic variations.

Such accumulation zones are created when large amounts of floating plastic debris are caught by ocean currents and concentrate in the centre of gyre systems.

At the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, just off the coast of Maine, a tidal power system built and operated by the Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) draws energy from currents created as 100 billion tons of water flow into and out of the bay.

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With eruptions of ice and water vapor, and an ocean covered by an ice shell, Saturn's moon Enceladus is one of the most fascinating in the Solar System, especially as interpretations of data provided by the Cassini spacecraft have been contradictory until now.

This would shut down a global ocean circulation system that is driven by dense, salty water falling to the bottom of the north Atlantic and that ultimately produces the Gulf Stream.

The values derived by the ECS represent a stabilization of temperatures, and when systems like ocean carbon sinks are added to the mix, stabilization can take millennia.

These large systems of rotating currents are common in Earth's oceans, where they are driven by wind.

The DONET system (of which there are now two) is a series of linked pressure sensors installed on the ocean floor in the Nankai Trough, an area that has been hit by repeated dangerous earthquakes, JAMSTEC's Nakamura said.

It is one of six stations operated by Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), which was set up to make physical, chemical and biological observations of the ocean basin.

Europe's Marine Science Plan, which should be completed by the end of 2001, involves numerous workshops, including a Hanse workshop relating to Ocean Margin Systems held in Bremen in November 2000 and a workshop with the topic Marine Science Frontiers for Europe, also in Bremen, in February 2001.

«Although tiny, these organisms are a vital part of the Earth's life support system, providing half of the oxygen generated each year on Earth by photosynthesis and lying at the base of marine food chains on which all other life in the ocean depends.»

The oceans contain 252 billion billion gallons of water, and the energy imbalance caused by climate change is so huge that it affects this vast system.

These variations originate primarily from fluctuations in carbon uptake by land ecosystems driven by the natural variability of the climate system, rather than by oceans or from changes in the levels of human - made carbon emissions.

By modeling the ingredients in these carbon - based planetary systems, the scientists determined they lack icy water reservoirs thought to supply planets with oceans.

Grassle solidified his contributions to documenting marine biodiversity by helping launch the Census of Marine Life and the Ocean Biogeographic Information System, which is an essential tool in marine conservation efforts.

«This means that the Southern Ocean's nutrient supply would be affected by changes to the climate system (such as winds and freshwater input) differently to other areas of the oOcean's nutrient supply would be affected by changes to the climate system (such as winds and freshwater input) differently to other areas of the oceanocean.

The five - year drought was exacerbated by an atmospheric pressure system in the North Pacific Ocean that researchers dubbed the «ridiculously resilient ridge,» which pushed storms farther north and deprived the Southwest of precipitation.

A new West Coast ocean acidification observing system is also planned, Feely said, with several observation sites manned by different research institutions, such as the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.

Now, a team of scientists has streamlined the problem by combining ocean wave data with a healthy dose of nonlinear dynamics of the wave system.

Russia has been far more active developing and flying spacecraft powered by small fission reactors, including 30 Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellites, or RORSAT, which flew between 1967 and 1988, and higher - powered TOPAZ systems.

Co-author Dr Gavin Foster, a Reader in Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, who is based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS), explains: «Geological data showed that sea level would likely rise by nine metres or more as the climate system adjusts to today's greenhouse effect.

To achieve such integration, Tara Oceans is driven by researchers with expertise in biological and physical oceanography, ecology, microbiology, systematics, molecular, cellular and systems biology, bioinformatics, data management, and modeling.

The region's weather is shaped by the currents of both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, and the chemistry of the ice can reveal when each of those systems played the dominant role.

Only 7 percent of the excess energy trapped in the climate system by increasing greenhouse gases goes into the land, air, and ice, though, while 93 percent of that energy goes into the oceans.

The system is called Global Fishing Watch, and it was conceived by ocean - hugger nonprofit Oceana, developed by our favorite eye - in - the - sky watchdog SkyTruth, powered by satellite company SpaceQuest, with technical support from Google.

The delayed action is a property of the climate system, which also affects greenhouse gases, and is caused by the oceans which act as a flywheel due to their great heat capacity and thermal inertia.

The societal benefit themes will be examined by their relationship to Ocean Observing and how information products can be best supported through the observing system themes.

This was accomplished using a stochastic climate model based on the concept that ocean temperature variability is a slow dynamical system, a red noise signal, generated by integrating stochastic atmospheric forcing, or white noise71.

Experimental results indicate that life history traits of reef fishes are remarkably tolerant to CO2 levels that could occur in the ocean by the end of this century, however, sensory systems and behaviour are severely affected.

The results are presented at a resolution high enough to enable studying ocean eddies and other narrow current systems, which are overlooked by lower - resolution models.

The systems for ocean measurement under the aegis of GOOS were initially designed by the Ocean Observing System Development Panel, refined in the 1998 Action Plan for GOOS / GCOS, and further refined in the GCOS Implementation ocean measurement under the aegis of GOOS were initially designed by the Ocean Observing System Development Panel, refined in the 1998 Action Plan for GOOS / GCOS, and further refined in the GCOS Implementation Ocean Observing System Development Panel, refined in the 1998 Action Plan for GOOS / GCOS, and further refined in the GCOS Implementation Plan.

Future ocean projections for the year 2100 were compiled from all available data generated by Earth Systems Models as part of the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Taylor et al., 2012) as in Mora et al. (2013).