Sentences with phrase «ocean water masses»

It's like Grand Central Station there, as many of the major ocean water masses pass through from the Arctic and from warmer latitudes.

The significance of extant coccolithophores as indicator of ocean water masses, surface water temperature, and palaeoproductivity: a review

Another day, at the pub with my colleagues to celebrate a friend's PhD submission, I stirred my mojito with a straw and thought about stratification of Southern Ocean water masses.

To begin with, there is nothing so impossible to observe and to record as the ocean water masses are.

Stephanie M. Downes, Riccardo Farneti, Petteri Uotila, Stephen M. Griffies, Simon J. Marsland, et al. (2015) An assessment of Southern Ocean water masses and sea ice during 1988 - 2007 in a suite of interannual CORE - II simulations, 94, 67 - 94, Ocean Modelling, doi: 10.1016 / j.ocemod.2015.07.022,

The system can weaken or shut down entirely if the North Atlantic surface - water salinity somehow drops too low to allow the formation of deep - ocean water masses.

The explanation seems to be rotational eustasy with speeding - up phases during Grand Solar Minima forcing ocean water masses to the equatorial region, and slowing - down phases during Grand Solar Maxima forcing ocean waster massed from the equator towards the poles.

Downes, S.M., R. Farneti, P. Uotila, S.M. Griffies, S.J. Marsland, D. Bailey, E. Behrens, M. Bentsen, D.H. Bi, A. Biastoch, C. Boning, A. Bozec, V.M. Canuto, E. Chassignet, G. Danabasoglu, S. Danilov, N. Diansky, H. Drange, P.G. Fogli, A. Gusev, A. Howard, M. Ilicak, T. Jung, M. Kelley, W.G. Large, A. Leboissetier, M. Long, J.H. Lu, S. Masina, A. Mishra, A. Navarra, A.J.G. Nurser, L. Patara, B.L. Samuels, D. Sidorenko, P. Spence, H. Tsujino, Q. Wang, and S.G. Yeager, 2015: An assessment of Southern Ocean water masses and sea ice during 1988 - 2007 in a suite of interannual CORE - II simulations.

Stephanie M. Downes, Riccardo Farneti, Petteri Uotila, Stephen M. Griffies, Simon J. Marsland, et al. (2015) An assessment of Southern Ocean water masses and sea ice during 1988 - 2007 in a suite of interannual CORE - II simulations, 94, 67 - 94, Ocean Modelling, doi: 10.1016 / j.ocemod.2015.07.022,

The clear correlation between the net displacement of ocean water mass to land and the lower sea level during the last La Nina is a dynamical connection, showing far more than just «trend».

An alternative model that 105 to 106 year scale variations in continental water storage significantly changes the land — ocean water mass balance, led to the hypothesis of «groundwater - driven eustasy», termed «aquifer eustasy» 3,27,28,29,30,31 or «limno - eustasy» 32,33.

Not exact matches

Storm surge — the mass of water hurricanes push onshore from the ocean — will have a higher bed of water that will rush farther inland and destroy more property.

The aim of my PhD is to use the distribution of diatom species preserved in sediment cores across the Scotia Sea to reconstruct the position of major ocean boundaries and water masses through time.

«So if I have this depression at the south pole, and I have beneath the surface 50 kilometers down a layer of water or an ocean, that layer of water at depth is a positive mass anomaly.

Using more than a dozen instruments placed around the habitat, including a first - of - its - kind underwater mass spectrometer that tracks fluctuations in key gases up and down the ocean waters, aquanauts watch readouts in real time on computer screens.

A mass of water called the North Atlantic Deep Water enters the Southern Ocean off the southeast coast of South America (star in map below lwater called the North Atlantic Deep Water enters the Southern Ocean off the southeast coast of South America (star in map below lWater enters the Southern Ocean off the southeast coast of South America (star in map below left).

This new map allows scientists to determine the age of large swaths of the second largest mass of ice on Earth, an area containing enough water to raise ocean levels by about 20 feet.

«It's very cool, because water can go underground, it can move around the ocean, it can change from ice to liquid and runoff, but it can't hide its mass from us,» says Watkins.

Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corals.

«The total amount of water there is nearly the same as the mass of all the world's ocean water.»

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

As the ocean mass moves north, it absorbs additional carbon dioxide from decomposing organic matter in the water and sediments, increasing acidity.

Persistent mass of warm water is reshuffling ocean currents, marine ecosystems, and inland weather.

GA maps the land masses below the ocean's surface through basic geological work and seismic and bathymetric analysis (measuring water depth at various places in a body of water) to better define and legally extend Australia's continental shelf for a submission to the United Nations under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

A planet with the same fraction of water as Earth could keep a subsurface ocean liquid if it was 3.5 times Earth's mass.

As Dr. Mackey cited in the published article Sea Change: UCI oceanographer studies effects of global climate fluctuations on aquatic ecosystems: «They would tell us about upwelling and how the ocean wasn't just this one big, homogenous bathtub, that there were different water masses, and they had different chemical properties that influenced what grew there,» she recalls.

But now I really think this is going to transform oceanography by giving us a persistent presence in the ocean — a presence that doesn't require a boat, can operate in any weather condition, and can stay within the same water mass as it drifts around the open ocean.»

For this project, they and their teams are collaborating with engineers from MBARI to test new ways of adaptively sampling oceanographic features such as open - ocean eddies, swirling masses of water that move slowly across the Pacific Ocean, which can have large effects on ocean microcean eddies, swirling masses of water that move slowly across the Pacific Ocean, which can have large effects on ocean micrOcean, which can have large effects on ocean microcean microbes.

Digging through metres of ocean mud from depths of 3,800 metres, the team studied the dissolution of fossil plankton shells that was closely linked to the chemical signature of different water masses.

But in many instances, the simulations show, even planets starting with rocky cores as little as 1.5 Earth's mass may trap and hold atmospheres containing between 100 and 1000 times the amount of hydrogen found in the water in Earth's oceans — thick, dense envelopes exerting pressures so hellish that life on the planets» surfaces might be almost impossible.

Combined with earlier water resource monitoring and hydrological modeling, the information let them estimate fluctuations in ocean mass.

Earth and Venus are of comparable size and mass, yet the surface of Venus bakes at 460 degrees Celsius under an ocean of carbon dioxide that bears down with the weight of a kilometer of water.

The French scientific team benefited from data from NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites, launched in 2002, that measure ocean mass and water storage variations on land.

Changes in the mass distribution of water in Earth's oceans in turn leads to variations in its angular momentum.

There is also a contribution of excess atmospheric CO2 absorption introduced to deep - water masses from dense, cold CO2 - rich surface waters at downwelling sites (e.g., North Atlantic), which then move through the oceans via meridional overturning circulation.

Already, distinct deep - water masses in the Southern Ocean (Helm et al., 2011), eastern North Atlantic (e.g., Sub-polar Mode Water, the Intermediate Water and the Mediterranean Outflow Water; Stendardo et al., 2015), and in the West Pacific (North Pacific Subtropical mode water; Takatani et al., 2012) display long - term decreases in O2 concentrawater masses in the Southern Ocean (Helm et al., 2011), eastern North Atlantic (e.g., Sub-polar Mode Water, the Intermediate Water and the Mediterranean Outflow Water; Stendardo et al., 2015), and in the West Pacific (North Pacific Subtropical mode water; Takatani et al., 2012) display long - term decreases in O2 concentraWater, the Intermediate Water and the Mediterranean Outflow Water; Stendardo et al., 2015), and in the West Pacific (North Pacific Subtropical mode water; Takatani et al., 2012) display long - term decreases in O2 concentraWater and the Mediterranean Outflow Water; Stendardo et al., 2015), and in the West Pacific (North Pacific Subtropical mode water; Takatani et al., 2012) display long - term decreases in O2 concentraWater; Stendardo et al., 2015), and in the West Pacific (North Pacific Subtropical mode water; Takatani et al., 2012) display long - term decreases in O2 concentrawater; Takatani et al., 2012) display long - term decreases in O2 concentration.

This spatial gradient in pH reflects the age and isolation of the water masses, which accumulate CO2 released by biological respiration as they move through the ocean basins.

I wonder if the warm and cold water masses could be considered a Ocean blocking pattern, and btw Hansen etal.

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.

These density changes give rise to specific water masses, which have well - defined temperature and salinity characteristics, and which can be traced for long distances in the ocean.

move water masses through the deep ocean — taking nutrients, oxygen, and heat with them.

The planets» densities, now known much more precisely than before, suggest that some of them could have up to 5 percent of their mass in the form of water — about 250 times more than Earth's oceans.

During glaciation, water was taken from the oceans to form the ice at high latitudes, thus global sea level drops by about 120 meters, exposing the continental shelves and forming land - bridges between land - masses for animals to migrate.

Tina van de Flierdt from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London is an international leader in the use of geochemical proxies — particularly neodymium (Nd)-- for reconstructing past ocean circulation, water masses and weathering.

Ice shelves are important, because they play a role in the stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and the ice sheet's mass balance, and are important for ocean stratification and bottom water formation; this helps drive the world's thermohaline circulation.

Oceans, these vast extensions of water masses, move incessantly transporting nutrients and heat.

In physics, momentum is defined as mass (such as ocean water) in motion.

WHEN SWEPT INSIDE GO THE LONG WAY AROUND THROUGH THE CHANNEL — DO N'T FIGHT AGAINST THE MASSES OF WATER AS THE WHOLE OCEAN PUSHES AGAINST YOU.

Other works engage with the necessary conditions of life such as soil and, more prominently, water in an era marked by water reserve depletion, acidification of the oceans, rising sea levels, and mass extinction as well as the migration of people and species.

Regional variations arise because the Earth's gravity field is affected in multiple ways by the melt of ice, due to the direct effect of surface mass changes (the gravity field is determined by the distribution of mass), the consequent deformation of the Solid Earth (removing a load causes the Earth's surface to rebound, which in turn changes the distribution of the Earth's mass), the consequent redistribution of ocean water (the ocean surface is shaped by the gravity filed) and perturbations of the Earth's rotation axis (because of mass redistribution).