Sentences with phrase «ocean water temperatures»

With rising ocean water temperatures due to climate change, hurricanes are becoming stronger and last longer.

Ocean water temperatures average 60F in winter, 64F in spring, 70F in summer, and 66F in fall.

As ocean water temperatures dropped below 50 degrees during the previous weeks, thousands of sea turtles became stranded in the Southeast.

The organizations came to the rescue of the stranded sea turtles, a threatened species, off the coast of North Carolina in February when ocean water temperatures dropped below 50 degrees.

Ocean water temperatures range from the lower 50s (°F) in the winter to the upper 60s (°F) in the fall.

Goddard's computer models, with input from ocean buoys, atmospheric models, satellite data and other sources, can also simulate what ocean water temperatures could do in the coming months.

Similarly, the long term trend of global ocean water temperatures is on the increase, emphasizing that El Niño is only magnifying the ongoing warming trend.

Coastal communities along the Jersey Shore will end up significantly cooler this week, as ocean water temperatures remain quite chilly in the 40s.

About half the story is devoted to various explanations, including a recent shift in Pacific Ocean water temperatures and an intense heat wave in May and June that eliminated some of the snow pack that normally moistens forests in the summer.

• Significantly, the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, ESAS, has up to 1000 Gt of methane reserves, and it is highly believable that 1 % of this (or up to 10 Gt) is in the form of free gas trapped underneath the currently degrading subsea permafrost cap, which could be released within the next few decades by a combination of increasing Arctic Ocean water temperatures, increased storm activity, and possible increases in seismic activity.

After the planet's average surface temperature rose through the 1990s, the increase has almost leveled off at the level of 2000, while ocean water temperature has also stabilized, the Research Council of Norway said in a statement on its website.

Lynchaos / licensed and modified under CC BY - NC - SA 2.0 Rising ocean water temperatures and...

Ocean water temperatures average 55 °F (13 °C) to 65 °F (18 °C).

Rising Seas: Warmer ocean water temperatures, the pumping of ground water, and melting of the polar ice sheets have added water to the oceans, contributing to sea level rise.

Ocean water temperatures range from the lower 50s (°F) in the winter to the upper 60s in the fall.

Yet previous work, in part by the same authors, suggested the process is employed rather frequently by octopuses and squid to respond to changes in ocean water temperature.

Rising ocean water temperatures and increasing levels of acidity — two symptoms of climate change — are imperiling sea creatures in unexpected ways: mussels are having trouble clinging to rocks, and the red rock shrimp's camouflage is being thwarted, according to presenters at the AAAS Pacific Division annual meeting at the University of San Diego in June.

The ocean water temperature reaches its highest point in late August early September.

The thermometer - based series is ocean water temperature, the satellite series is (I think) air temperature.

Just recently we learned that 3000 ocean based robots reported that ocean water temperatures have dropped in the last 5 years.

Agreed Dane — the only way ocean heat will bouce off a layer of ice is if the ice has a higher melting point than the ocean water temperature... the more they increase the ice melt temp, the greater the disaster.

The ocean water temperatures continue to run warmer than normal across most of the Atlantic Basin (red and orange in the graphic), and especially in the Caribbean region and the Atlantic near the United States.

HadMAT1 (ocean air temperatures) and HadSST (ocean water temperatures) seem to follow each other very close through a timescale from 1870 to 2000.

CO2 is sensitive to ocean water temperature, a huge amount.