Sentences with phrase «oceanic climate»
Observations: oceanic climate change and sea level.
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As carefully noted, it is the indirect biophysical effects (listed above) of the trends towards widespread, increased oceanic cyanobacterial growth which affect oceanic climate / weather.
By definition this means that the effects of cyanobacteria as a key driver of oceanic climate simply can not be ignored.
Burgundy is characterized by a semi continental climate, however in parts of the region weather conditions are more typical of an oceanic climate, and as you head further south toward the Mediterranean the weather becomes, well... more Mediterranean!
Trinidad has an oceanic climate and is relatively temperate compared with inland areas.
Not exact matches
It helps lay a foundation that scientists can apply to make predictions about what would allow life to alter exoplanets» atmospheres, and may inspire deeper studies, here on Earth, of how oceanic - atmospheric chemistry drives climate instability and influences the rise and fall of life through the ages.
One of the major problems, as Latif explained, is that there are just very few long - term oceanic measurements, thereby complicating the analysis and interpretation of climate change signals.
«Under climate change, the Pacific Islands region is projected to become warmer, less oxygenated, more acidic, and have lower production of plankton that form the base of oceanic food webs,» said lead author Rebecca Asch, Nereus Program alumnus and Assistant Professor at East Carolina University.
«Both the mosquitos that transmit Zika and the virus itself are climate - sensitive,» said co-author Ángel Muñoz, a postdoctoral research associate in atmospheric and oceanic science at Princeton University, in an email.
The poles are on the front lines of climate change — melting ice, thawing permafrost, warming temperatures — but they are also at the forefront of weather patterns, global oceanic circulation and the marine food chain.
Most recently, he reported on the diversity of oceanic viral communities in a special issue of the journal Science featuring the Tara Oceans Expedition, a global study of the impact of climate change on the world's oceans.
Paul Dirmeyer, a professor in the department of atmospheric, oceanic and earth sciences at George Mason University who was not involved in the study, notes: «Green et al. put forward an intriguing and exciting new idea, expanding our measures of land - atmospheric feedbacks from mainly a phenomenon of the water and energy cycles to include the biosphere, both as a response to climate forcing and a forcing to climate response.»
Their research, published in Nature Climate Change on June 29, is the first attempt to examine and document these changes in the air - sea heat exchange in the region — brought about by global warming — and to consider its possible impact on oceanic circulation, including the climatologically important Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.
«The tropical Pacific ocean - atmosphere system has been called a sleeping dragon because of how it can influence climate elsewhere,» said lead author Aradhna Tripati, a UCLA assistant professor in the departments of Earth, planetary and space sciences, and atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
«The data generated here establish a baseline to evaluate the impact of climate changes on oceanic ecosystems going forward,» Bowler added.
Those shifts most likely stem from the copious quantities of carbon dioxide spewed by fossil fuel — fired power plants that are changing the climate and, thus, the tiny plants known as phytoplankton that serve as the base of the oceanic food chain.
«This finding,» says Zhang, «provides important insights into patterns of oceanic environmental change and their underlying causes, which were ultimately linked to intense climate warming during the Early Triassic.»
Dr Sinha concluded: «The deeper understanding gained in this study of the processes and regions responsible for variations in oceanic heat drawdown and retention will improve the accuracy of future climate projections.»
Climate change could put a type of oceanic bacteria into evolutionary overdrive in a way that could pose a threat to its long - term survivability and its important role in the food chain
The cause of this recent increase in oceanic CO2 uptake, which has implications for climate change, has been a mystery.
He emphasized the need to better understand the deep ventilation of oceanic heat, in order to improve modeling to reliably predict the future state of the Arctic climate system.
UNL engineers and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have designed a next - generation temperature sensor set to improve the measurement of oceanic dynamics that shape marine biology, climate patterns and military operations.
While countless scientific reports have documented the ravages of climate change on oceanic life, a survey of the researchers who wrote them provides a silver lining: An overwhelming majority noticed examples of sea life withstanding climate change.
Antarctic climate results from a complex mix of oceanic and atmospheric circulation patterns, so there could also be other components affecting the amount of snow accumulation in the region, Bromwich said.
Meehl and his colleagues used two sophisticated computer models of global climate to predict what would happen under various scenarios for greenhouse gas emission controls, taking into account the oceanic time lag.
Now, researchers who study the Earth's climate system have extended the state - of - the - art Earth system models for physical and biogeochemical oceanic processes, projecting conditions through 2300.
Monitoring, understanding, and predicting oceanic variations associated with natural climate variability and human - induced changes, and assessing the related roles of the ocean on multiple spatial - temporal scales.
Measurements such as these may serve as an indicator of oceanic behavior, much as other indices are used to keep track of atmospheric climate.
The another most important climate variation is El Niño — Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events, which impact the global oceanic and atmospheric circulations which thereby produce droughts, floods and intense rainfall in certain regions.
Cassou, C., L. Terray, J.W. Hurrell, and C. Deser, 2004: North Atlantic winter climate regimes: Spatial asymmetry, stationarity with time, and oceanic forcing.
Over the last 30 years of direct satellite observation of the Earth's climate, many natural influences including orbital variations, solar and volcanic activity, and oceanic conditions like El Nino (ENSO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) have either had no effect or promoted cooling conditions.
This also tends to support the general concept that changes in the tropics (30N - 30S) are the primary drivers of global climate change; processes in the North Atlantic and North Pacific seem to respond to changes in the tropics, not the reverse — i.e. the concept of climate controlled by a global oceanic conveyor belt driven by a North Atlantic gear mechanism can probably be discarded.
In the North Pacific, projections under anthropogenic climate scenarios indicate a 34 % decrease in both the area and primary production of the temperate oceanic biome, which would impact juvenile loggerheads from Japan.
Climate - driven variation affects oceanic communities from surface waters to the much - overlooked deep sea....»
Ongoing measurements of anthropogenic CO2, other gases and hydrographic parameters in these key marginal seas will provide information on changes in global oceanic CO2 uptake associated with the predicted increasing atmospheric CO2 and future global climate change.
The workshop, building on the knowledge and practical skills acquired during the school, aims to bring together expertise on large - scale atmospheric and oceanic dynamics, small scale cloud and precipitation processes, hierarchical climate modeling and observation.
A new study shows Earth's oceanic conveyor belt, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, may be less stable than thought, posing a risk of abrupt climate change.
Clearly, these two different regions will have very different responses to climate and oceanic change, and these differences will affect sea ice response.
«Simply put, the shape of the ice sheet and the contact with the ocean makes it likely that these areas respond more pronouncedly to changes in climate boundary conditions — be they atmospheric, oceanic or glaciological.»
Interglacial cooling rates demonstrate consistent, predictable trendlines suggesting Earth's climate follows similar, repeatable processes such as ice growth rates and oceanic / atmospheric process interactions as it cools.
Horta has the typical humid subtropical climate associated with the Azores, with significant oceanic influences, due to the August mean temperature just being above the 22 °C (72 °F) isotherm separating the classifications under the Köppen system.
Ponta Delgada has a borderline humid subtropical (Cfa) and Mediterranean climate (Csa) under the Köppen classification with strong oceanic (Cfb) influence, due to high levels of precipitation throughout the year combined with less sunshine, and because only one warm month just reaches 22.1 °C (71.8 °F).
The established game line is seeing expansions that take it into oceanic environments and changing climates.
The group exhibition «Tidalectics» presents 13 artists whose distinctive works cast oceanic perspectives on the cultural, political and biological dimensions of the oceans, examining the effects of human - made issues, such as climate change and sea - level rise, while reimagining human and «more - than - human» relationships.
This can only result in major changes to the earth's climate, oceanic circulation patterns, etc..
Like many other climate issues, the complexity lies in the interaction between the atmospheric and oceanic systems.
Original post Last summer, a paper published in Nature, «Global phytoplankton decline over the past century,» caught the attention of climate campaigners and some media outlets because it concluded that warming of the seas over the last century was linked with a big and near - global decline in oceanic phytoplankton.
«The climate patterns responsible for the expected above - normal 2007 hurricane season continue to be the ongoing multi-decadal signal (the set of oceanic and atmospheric conditions that have spawned increased Atlantic hurricane activity since 1995), warmer - than - normal sea surface temperatures in key areas of the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, and the El Nino / La Nina cycle»
Changes here have a long term effect, affecting the strength of the north - ward horizontal flow of the Atlantic's upper warm layer, thereby altering the oceanic poleward heat transport and the distribution of sea surface temperature (SST — AMO), the presumed source of the (climate) natural variability.
This could in turn help clarify the oceanic pathways for much of the heat added to the Earth's climate system by accumulating greenhouse gases.