Sentences with phrase «oceanic currents»

Instead, they see a periodic slowdown in the vast turnover of oceanic currents as locking in CO2 into the deep oceans.

The convergence of three major oceanic currents brings an incredible mix of marine life to this area.

The convergence of three major oceanic currents brings an incredible mix of marine life to this area.

The interplay between mile - thick ice sheets, a warming atmosphere, and shifting oceanic currents has been a tough task for scientists to tackle.

, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116 This one finds found that North Atlantic oceanic currents play a greater role in the absorption of carbon than previously thought by the IPCC report 2.

The sandy barrier islands protect the lagoons from oceanic currents, creating a fascinating environment of twisting mangrove - lined estuaries, chaotic sand dunes and blooming desert plants.

As significant uncertainties about the thickness of the surface ice still exist, some planetary scientists have identified two possible mechanisms for how possible volcanic heat can escape to the surface from Europa's rocky mantle and be carried upward by buoyant oceanic currents.

The opening and closing of ocean gateways: the opening of the Drake Passage; the opening of the Tasmanian Gateway and the closing of the Tethys seaway; along with the final formation of the Greenland — Iceland — Faroes sill; played vital parts in reshaping oceanic currents during the Oligocene.

Here's a brief update on the great heat - toting oceanic currents that at one time were thought to be at risk from human - driven warming of the climate.

It has coastal areas, mountain areas, plains, deserts etc, and is not dominated by one particular climatic zone, or by one particular weather pattern, or one particular oceanic current.

While shifting positions of various oceanic currents and atmospheric fronts can suddenly bring a particular location under a different climatic regime, there is no well - established mechanism of the entire planet experiencing analogous boundary crossings.

This transformation of oceanic currents between forward and backward spinning Earths resulted from changes to atmospheric water transport, Ziemen explained.

The team collected data tracking the movements of the jellyfish and oceanic current flows, and found that the jellyfish can actively swim at counter-current in response to drift — the findings help to explain how jellyfish can congregate in the millions to form blooms that can last for periods up to several months.

The oceans overturn heat content through oceanic currents.

In this trip we're heading to the South Pacific gyre, the least explored of the five subtropical gyres (which are rotating oceanic currents that accumulate garbage).

The prolific range of marine life found in these waters results from the convergence of five major oceanic currents that converge on the lonely cluster of islands on the equator.

Scientists — ask this of yourselves — precisely what would the map of oceanic currents have been during the last iceage?

These natural mechanisms include eccentricities in the earths orbit around the sun and about the earths own axis, variation in solar radiation, the earths natural carbon cycle, changes in oceanic currents and the position of the earths continents through geological time, and probably several other factors that I'm unfamiliar with.

The distribution of oceanic currents and water temperature indicate that the process would have followed a zigzag pattern from South Africa to Brazil, Cape Verde and the Caribbean and Eastern North America.

Distribution depends on the oceanic currents.

The islands sit at the junction of five major oceanic currents.

The diverse and abundant nature of marine life in the Galapagos is the result of the mixing of five major oceanic currents.

This puts Cabo San Lucas in the middle of 3 oceanic currents that supports a wonderful diversity of Baleen and Toothed Whales throughout the year and of course the Humpback and Gray Whales during the Cabo San Lucas Whale migration season.

By tracking patterns of oceanic currents, storms, solar wind, radiation, space weather, bursts of charged particles, and magnetic fields, new forms of information are being pieced together into cohesive images showing that different natural systems are more dynamically intertwined than ever imagined.

I continue to live with Soft Eyes, exploring the depths and truths contained within its layers, and I have begun to modify the analogy to think of art as an oceanic current, flowing through the dynamic ecosystems of the world, pushing and pulling bits of plastic and phytoplankton into and out of its flow, one part of a water cycle so vast and far reaching into our past and future we no longer know if we are clouds or raindrops or ocean water shaping the course of the world around us.

As with Pollock, in her strongest work we experience painting as phenomenon: the spectacle of colors flowing and comingling, as absolute and beyond the human hand as cloud formations, oceanic currents.

I'm apologized to insist, but I repeat my question about the becoming of the wind - driven part of the oceanic currents towards the north - east Atlantic ocean.

Trevor has asked one valid question, «What would the map of oceanic currents have been during the last iceage?»

Thorsten Mauritsen, an expert who wrote an accompanying commentary for the first study, said it has something to do with the atmospheric and oceanic currents that run between the Arctic and Europe.

I fear that many hidden tripping points have already been passed eg increase in disease, demise of soil micro-organisms, slowing down of oceanic currents, melting ice, sea level rise, decline of aquatic food chains.

In some way, that's the engine where all the other variations must be hanged (specially variations in albedo because of clouds - maybe connected with solar cycles as other authors are trying to prove -, variations in albedo because of sea ice extention, linked with the oceanic currents - as in the «stadium wave» that was presented by Curry and others, etc., variations in heat exchange between atmosphere and oceans, and so on.

The shapes of the shorelines, bottom relief, systems of oceanic currents, tides, atmospheric circulation and a number of other criteria subdivide the World Ocean into the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Arctic Oceans.

Possible changing of some of the major oceanic currents (if the Gulf Stream was to fail, as seems possible, much of northern Europe would become uninhabitable);

Each is located in a different part of Greenland and thus are also affected differently by their latitude, oceanic currents (for the marine - terminating glaciers), weather and climatic patterns.