Sentences with phrase «ocean temperature increase»

But as ocean temperatures increase due to climate warming, their emission rates could potentially rise by 20 percent between 2010 and 2100.

Warming air and ocean temperatures increase glacier ice melt.

Second, the ocean expands as ocean temperatures increase.

If all of this energy went into an accumulation of temperature in the upper 100 m of the global oceans, we would see an upper mean 100 m global ocean temperature increase of 1.1 oC.»

Her analysis revealed that from 1979 to 2010, regional ocean temperatures increased almost 0.4 degrees F (0.2 degrees C) per decade — about 1.1 degrees F (0.6 degrees C) overall.

Her analysis revealed that from 1979 to 2010, regional ocean temperatures increased almost 0.4 degrees F (0.2 degrees C) per decade — about 1.1 degrees F (0.6 degrees C) overall.

Even Richard Lindzen, normally an arch-skeptic on these issues, stated that «ocean temperature increases present some support for the surface temperature record» Lindzen (2002).

First, one needs to know that in the Arctic Ocean temperature increases as one moves a thermometer from the surface towards the bottom for the first 900 feet or 300 meters.

Students will analyze that data for evidential links, hypothesize about the possible effect on hurricanes of continual ocean temperature increases, and predict related implications for residents of coastal areas.

To give you an idea of how the Earth has heated up, the combined land and ocean temperature increased by about 0.8 degrees Celsius between 1901 and 2010, yet between 1979 and 2010, the temperature spiked about 0.5 degrees Celsius.

Also for any period of sea level rise, one needs to look at ocean temperature increases, which are not necessarily in lock step with global temperatures... i.e. anthropogenic aerosols are regional with mostly a cooling effect over land, not oceans.

These trends in extreme weather events are accompanied by longer - term changes as well, including surface and ocean temperature increase over recent decades, snow and ice cover decrease and sea level rise.

The findings could have implications for the intensity and frequency of hurricanes that the U.S. East and Gulf coasts could experience as ocean temperatures increase as a result of climate change, according to the study's authors.

«If our model is correct the Great Barrier Reef will begin to look very different as ocean temperatures increase.»

Since salt water has a higher specific heat capacity than land, ocean temperatures increase and decrease more slowly than land temperatures.

The Antarctic ice sheet is also undergoing changes as ocean temperatures increase, albeit more slowly than the Arctic.

That may seem small at first, but over time, especially when combined with other sources of sea level rise such as melting Greenland glaciers and the expansion of seawater as ocean temperatures increase, it adds up.

The land measurements stayed the same, but in the ocean the temperatures increased dramatically from past measurements.

Thus, a relatively small amount of increased evaporation would skew the results away from the energy remaining as latent heat — i.e. an ocean temperature increase.