Sentences with phrase «ocean temperatures of»

An increase in ocean temperatures of just a few degrees can destroy huge areas of coral reefs through bleaching — a stress response that causes a coral to lose its colorful and protective colony of nutrient - gathering algae.

sfp, What number of Argo devices do you think will be needed to measure variations in global ocean temperatures of under 0.1 deg C, or any other relevant temperature?

This is very similar to the ocean temperatures of last year, and this will again be conducive for tropical storms and / or hurricanes forming and / or strengthening close to the United States.

There is a fairly consistent lag in deep ocean temperatures of about 1400 to 1700 k years which produces some neat interactions in the decay responses, likely the Bond Events where the D - O events / oscillations are just more noticeable version of the same situation.

Divers with the Division of Aquatic Resources have measured ocean temperatures of around 85 degrees Fahrenheit (29.4 Celsius), which is higher than the normal range of 72 degrees to 78 degrees (22.2 to 25.5 C), McGilvray said.

A «winter snow storm» from a flow of moisture that originated over record warm ocean temperatures of the Pacific.

I thought there was still a long way to go in cataloging the ocean temperatures of the LGM.

The team have now found that a rise in ocean temperature of only 2 °C would cause some algae to stop producing DMS.

So a large factor in global average temperature is average tropical ocean temperature of around 30 C. Or one could divide the world between tropics of about 30 C and the other half of the world being about 0 C giving the average of around 15 C.

Like everyone else, SOD wants to subtract ULR (calculated for an arbitrary ocean temperature of 300 degK or 290 degK) from DLR (who knows where these numbers came from: most likely land, possibly sunny ocean at 290 degK, possibly cloudy ocean at 300 degK, possibly some average that may even be reasonable for one — but not both — of these two temperatures).

Not exact matches

Not only is the reef threatened by widespread bleaching as a result of rising ocean temperatures, but the project also requires the major expansion of the Abbot Point port in Queensland.

Saildrone's fleet of sailboats — which are outfitted with dozens of sensors, measurement tools, and cameras — can capture data on fish and wildlife populations, environmental health, ocean temperatures, weather, and climate change.

The new report «Lights Out for the Reef», written by University of Queensland coral reef biologist Selina Ward, noted that reefs were vulnerable to several different effects of climate change; including rising sea temperatures and increased carbon dioxide in the ocean, which causes acidification.

Almost a quarter of the coral in the 132,974 square foot wonderland of marine life is dead, and 93 % has been touched by «bleaching,» a result of rising ocean temperatures.

According to a big chunk of ocean surface temperature recorded by boat, the oceans were not warming nearly as quickly as the rest of the planet.

It comes down to what every scientist knows too well — analyzing data collected by different methods, and at different times, is a tricky business because some methods of collecting ocean surface temperatures are more accurate than others.

It is producing a «Submaran»: an unmanned device that can float on the surface of the ocean and also drive 200 meters under the water to monitor pipelines, currents, temperature or whatever a customer might want.

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

«You can in fact reduce the upper ocean [temperature] by a degree Celsius, maybe 2, which would have a measurable effect on the intensity of the hurricane, but the practical concerns were hard to overcome.»

Rising temperatures will warm the oceans and accelerate melting of land ice, affecting sea - levels along the California coast.

This year, the Atlantic was warmer than average — Klotzbach says August through October will likely rank third or fourth in terms of highest tropical Atlantic Ocean temperatures.

One possible scenario is that rising temperatures may alter ocean currents, depriving Europe of the Gulf Stream and making it more like Labrador or Siberia.

One of the easiest things to do is look at the ocean temperature.

A few years ago the New England fishing fleets were in despair because the fish were nowhere to be found; a biologist, who had been making a laboratory study of the temperature of fishes» stomachs, combined his data with some ocean temperature data and correctly suggested where the missing creatures might be found.

Bacteria thrive virtually everywhere on Earth — from sub-zero temperatures to over 750 degrees F (in hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean), and in widely varying oxygen, pressure and nutrient conditions.

The sub-valley's cool climate is tempered by its proximity to the Ocean, with daytime temperatures fluctuating from 8 °C to 25 °C during high season, helping to preserve the natural aromatic flavours and acidity of the grapes.

The proximity of the ocean to the vineyards tempers the daytime temperatures, which vary from 8 °C to 25 °C during high season, helping to preserve the natural aromatic flavours and acidity of the grapes which is clearly reflected in our Syrah.»

Milo preferred the temperature of the ocean, which was a tad warmer.

The floods have been triggered by the weather event known as El Nino, a warming of surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean that wreaks havoc on weather patterns every few years.

«And the question we decided to ask was what can those reconstructions of temperature and salinity tell us about the greater Atlantic Ocean surface circulation.»

Paleoclimate data point to a warm tropical ocean with a clear east - west temperature gradient during the warm climates of the Pliocene and Miocene.

Those weather patterns are linked to warmer surface temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, respectively, and correlated with the timing of observed floods on the lower Mississippi.

But the ocean is a huge, constantly moving three - dimensional ecosystem, and obtaining precise, real - time observations of marine life and of oceanic conditions such as temperature, current and salinity is quite challenging and astronomically expensive.

But many species of these algae are highly sensitive to temperature, and are unable to survive as ocean waters warm.

a) No oceans exist ever, b) the temperature rockets as high as 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit, and c) the apparent azure sky actually comes from a deadly weather pattern: rain made of molten glass.

The recent hurricanes presented a rare opportunity for Lasker and Edmunds to study how corals recover from disasters — an important line of research in a warming world where rising ocean temperatures are stressing reefs.

The OMG mission also involves dropping hundreds of probes into the ocean each year to measure temperature and salinity at different depths.

The team then used their dataset from the tropics to back - calculate the temperature and chemistry of polar oceans, relying on previous studies of forams that captured the conditions of those regions.

«We know that increased ocean temperatures are one of the major threats to coral reefs worldwide.

Forams form their shells in concert with ocean temperatures and chemistry, acting as miniscule time capsules, each containing a precise record of the temperature and ocean chemistry during its lifetime.

That wind - driven circulation change leads to cooler ocean temperatures on the surface of the eastern Pacific, and more heat being mixed in and stored in the western Pacific down to about 300 meters (984 feet) deep, said England.

The ongoing La Niña pattern, where there are colder than normal sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, favors these types of conditions.

That may be particularly important in a time of rapid change due to rising ocean temperatures and increasing human activity on the high seas.

«Until recently, we had little information on ocean temperature and water depth in these fjords to quantify these processes, so the interpretation of glacier evolution on a case - by - case basis was difficult.»

Ecologists have watched in horror as unusually warm ocean temperatures have prompted corals to «bleach», or expel the symbiotic algae that provide much of their food.

The properties of the climate system include not just familiar concepts of averages of temperature, precipitation, and so on but also the state of the ocean and the cryosphere (sea ice, the great ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers, snow, frozen ground, and ice on lakes and rivers).

New research from the University of East Anglia shows that rising ocean temperatures will upset natural cycles of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and phosphorus.

The Pacific states — California, Oregon and Washington — receive more precipitation because of the Pacific Ocean influence, and more of the snow falls at temperatures near freezing.

Several of the team, including Smith, Hillenbrand and Kuhn, are now are working on a new project to provide estimates of ocean temperatures during this time interval.

Based on modeling results by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which predicted that Pacific Ocean temperatures would rise by 1 degree Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) over the next 50 years, a Canadian and U.S. team of scientists examined the distributional changes of 28 species of fish including salmon, herring, certain species of sharks, anchovies, sardines and more northern fish like pollock.