Sentences with phrase «ocean than the north»

The southern hemisphere has much more ocean than the north, and there is a massive quantity of ice, some over 2 km above sea level.

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In the past of earlier decades every nation or individuals of any nation were happy to deal or trade or buy from Islamic traders marking them as being most honest and truthful... that's how they were known as traders who's their sea trade extended from Indian ocean to the China Sea... those other than the land transportation by Camel Caravans moving between the South and North as well as between the far East and the far West...!!

On August 2, a pair of 18 - ton Russian submersibles, Mir - I and Mir - II, plunged more than two miles down into the Arctic Ocean and planted a titanium capsule containing their nation's flag on the seabed at the North Pole.

Further north, milder - than - typical winter temperatures have been linked to subtle changes in ocean currents.

As of March 2013, surface waters of the tropical north Atlantic Ocean remained warmer than average, while Pacific Ocean temperatures declined from a peak in late fall.

So, below are the records set by the most impressive North Atlantic hurricanes, since meteorologists began to name them more than half a century ago — as well as for storms in the Pacific Ocean, which actually rank number one in many of the categories.

A new study, the most comprehensive ever on seasonal distribution patterns and historic trends in abundance of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in the western North Atlantic Ocean, used records compiled over more than 200 years to update knowledge and fill in gaps in information about this species.

The researchers found that during glacial periods when the atmosphere was colder and sea ice was far more extensive, deep ocean waters came to the surface much further north of the Antarctic continent than they do today.

By measuring the abundance of an isotope of the noble gas argon in the rock or its crystals, Gazel and his colleague Michael Kunk of the U.S. Geological Survey found that the magma was much younger than the last known volcanic event on the East Coast — which occurred when the supercontinent of Pangaea slowly pulled apart into North America, Africa and South America some 200 million years ago, forming the Atlantic Ocean in the process.

Scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of California examined the age and abundance of the bones of megafauna, a term for mammals weighing more than 100 pounds, on Alaska's North Slope, a tundra region between the Brooks Range and the Arctic Ocean.

The researchers reached that conclusion by capturing more than two dozen polar bears, implanting temperature loggers and tracking their subsequent movements on shore and on ice in the Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska and Canada, during 2008 - 2010.

In one sample from the deep North Atlantic Ocean, they have found more than 60,000 kinds of bacteria.

Johnson hypothesizes that warmer ocean temperatures in 2012 and 2013, which were 1.3 °C higher than the previous decade's average, allowed the crabs to move north.

The rift runs for more than 50 miles from south to north across the ice shelf, which is a vast platform of ice floating atop the ocean.

Blooms of algae in the Arctic Ocean could add a previously unsuspected warming feedback to the mix of factors driving temperatures in the north polar regions up faster than any other place on the planet, according to the authors of a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francinorth america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San FranciNorth Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

Blooms of algae in the Arctic Ocean could add a previously unsuspected warming feedback to the mix of factors driving temperatures in the north polar regions up faster than any other place on the planet, according to the authors of a new study in

Monsoons in the Indian Ocean are wetter than normal while summers in North America are hot and dry.

Parts of the northwestern Pacific, the North Atlantic south of Greenland, and regions in the southern oceans near Antarctica were were cooler or much cooler than average, with no areas of the global oceans record cold.

«You can totally turn off ocean circulation, have Arctic sea ice advance all the way across the North Atlantic, and you still will have a warmer climate during the Younger Dryas than the Oldest Dryas because of the carbon dioxide,» Carlson says.

Freshwater injection into the North Atlantic and Southern oceans increases sea level pressure at middle latitudes and decreases it at polar latitudes (Figs. 20, S22), but the impact is different in the North Atlantic than in the Southern Ocean.

The cold conditions mean at present only 135 of more than 800 known fish species are found in latitudes north of where the UK sits, in either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.

The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it's more likely than not we'll see more intense hurricanes in the North Atlantic and western North Pacific Oceans, but a lack of data means the same can't be said of other regions just yet.

And it's heading into dire waters as global warming heats up the waters along this part of the North American coastline some 99.9 % times more rapidly than any other ocean is currently experiencing.

Shaka's Seat offers self - catering accommodation, located along Ocean Drive in Shaka's Rock, on the Dolphin Coast, less than 50 km north of Durban.

More village than city, more scenic outpost than bustling beach town, Cannon Beach is tucked into the heart of the breathtaking North Coast, right between the Pacific Ocean and the craggy peaks of the Cascade Range.

Each of our private ocean view vacation house rentals located on the unique North Shore in Upcountry Maui offers accommodations that provide greater space and comfort than a hotel, and all the amenities of home and more.

Thanks to the Endangered Species Act, the humpback whale population has grown in the last 20 years from 6,000 whales in the North Pacific Ocean, with 4,000 coming to Hawaii, to more than 21,000 whales existing today with approximately 10,000 traveling to Hawaii each year.

There is no other real estate company on the North Pacific Coast that has more experience in Costa Rica real estate than RE / MAX Ocean Surf and Sun.

Located in our Tower, these rooms offer a south - facing view of Mission Bay, or a north - facing view of the Pacific Ocean and coastline toward La Jolla, or a view of our lush tropical gardens that include more than 1,000 types of trees and plants, exotic wildlife, and koi ponds.

This impressive yet gracious ocean front property is located less than 50 meters away from the water in the tiny coastal fishing village of Seseh, 25 km north of the international airport, a 20 to 25 minute drive from the nightlife of Seminyak and Kuta, 15 minutes from the Tanah Lot temple, Balis most visited attraction and the world famous Nirvana Golf Course.

Nestled between the resorts of Soorts - Hossegor to the south and Mimizan to the north, Moliets are bedecked with charming features, with more than 200 km of white sandy beach hugged by the Atlantic Ocean and surrounded by the alluring landscapes that dominate the south of France.

With 1,500 miles of coast, where both Atlantic and the Indian Ocean meet together, unbelievable miscellaneous topography from the coolest winery of the southwest to the hot Kalahari Desert in the north, from magnificent beaches to the kingdom of wilderness, South Africa now greets more than 9 million tourists every year.

Environment rendering, upscaled shadow resolution, and denser crowd are among the improvements of the remaster, which make the beautiful locations of the North Atlantic Ocean, the River Valley, and New York look better than ever.

Southern expansion into the North Atlantic and Bering Sea will encounter more heat exchange with the open ocean currents than the ice northward of Canada.

As you will know, heat passes from a hotter to a cooler body; and on the average, the surface layers of the oceans are cooler than the air above them (as anyone who has tried swimming in the North Sea on a sunny day in August will testify).

Now it's happening again: reports of coral bleaching are coming from across the Pacific Ocean; NOAA is reporting that the North Pacific warming is bigger than anything they've seen to date.

Aside from the fact that 90 degrees north sits in the middle of a 2.5 - mile - deep ocean, that's quite a statement considering two things: first, no one has been routinely monitoring sea ice along both coastlines between then and now, and second, the region was clearly warmer than it is today (in summers) around 8,000 to 10,000 years ago — on both the Siberian and North American snorth sits in the middle of a 2.5 - mile - deep ocean, that's quite a statement considering two things: first, no one has been routinely monitoring sea ice along both coastlines between then and now, and second, the region was clearly warmer than it is today (in summers) around 8,000 to 10,000 years ago — on both the Siberian and North American sNorth American sides.

According to Anna Cummins and Marcus Eriksen, founders of the project, the trawls on this trip appear cleaner than the ones done in the previous expeditions to the North Pacific, North Atlantic, Indian Ocean and South Atlantic.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

It spread across 4.63 million square miles of the Arctic Ocean, Hudson Bay and adjacent areas of the North Atlantic — an area 224,000 square miles smaller than the previous low record for the month set in 2004.

I feel compelled to point out to weather newbies that «Atlantic» sometimes refers to hurricanes that are in the Atlantic / Caribbean / GoM basin to distinguish them from hurricanes in the Eastern North Pacific (see nhc.noaa.gov), as opposed to «hurricanes in the Atlantic» which refers to those in the Atlantic Ocean rather than the Caribbean or Gulf of Mexico.

The northern hemisphere has warmed faster than the southern because there's more land in the north than the south, and land has far less thermal inertia than ocean.

The ocean waters throughout the North Atlantic are warmer than average, the trade winds are lighter, and there is no El Niño event in the Pacific to ramp up high altitude winds that can tear nascent storms apart.

While the tropical Atlantic is currently warmer than average, the far North Atlantic is colder than average, potentially indicative of a negative phase of an Atlantic multi-decadal oscillation, another entirely natural occurrence which affects ocean temperatures over 25 to 40 years.

The horseshoe pattern of warmer - than - normal Pacific Ocean waters that characterize the positive phase of the North Pacific Mode.

Many areas of the world experienced higher - than - average monthly temperatures, including: much of Eurasia, coastal Africa, Central America, central South America, parts of the North Atlantic Ocean, the south west Pacific Ocean, and the Indian Ocean.

A greater - than - normal volume of warm salty tropical water was transported north with the current and this was drawn down into the ocean in the region around 60 ° N - where dense water sinking occurs.

Available literature has provided data for more than 700 surge events since 1880, the majority of which are found in the western North Atlantic (WNA), followed by Australia / Oceania, the western North Pacific (WNP), and the northern Indian Ocean (NIO).

Cold - water currents: For example: The California current carries cold water from the North Pacific Ocean toward Mexico along the western coast of the USA therefore, cooler climate year - round than inland states.