Sentences with phrase «oceanographers call»
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For instance, before the 2005 hurricane season, a Bermuda cat - bond hedge fund called Nephila found a team of oceanographers in Rhode Island called Accurate Environmental Forecasting, whose forecasts of hurricane seasons had been surprisingly good.
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They settled on an area south of the Mediterranean Sea where some oceanographers say a branch of the Nile River drained into what was called the Lake of Tanis, a coastal lagoon 3,000 years ago.
«That was a wake - up call for all of us,» says Christopher Sabine, an oceanographer at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.
Oceanographers commonly calculate large scale surface ocean circulation from satellite sea level information using a concept called «geostrophy,» which describes the relationship between oceanic surface flows and sea level gradient.
The project, which brings together physical oceanographers, marine biologists, imaging specialists, molecular biologists, bioinformaticists and modelers, uses what it calls a «holistic» and «study it all» approach, analyzing many species at once using a variety of methods, many of them automated.
Adrian Marchetti and his team of oceanographers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have identified — for the first time — that a protein called proteorhodopsin could allow a major group of phytoplankton to survive in iron - limited regions of the ocean.
«The heat content is just continuing to pile up,» Greg Johnson, an oceanographer at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, said during the call.
Water scientists, including physical and chemical oceanographers, marine biologists and geologists, meteorologists, and lake scientists called limnologists collect many types of data from instruments installed on moorings
Oceanographers use substances called tracers to study the path and rate of ocean currents and of processes such as mixing that are important parts of the global ocean and climate systems.
Ramon was an oceanographer, researcher, environmentalist and colleague of Jacques Cousteau who called Isla his home.
Peter Wadhams, a British oceanographer who's charted ice conditions for many years, is an outlier in predicting 2015 or so (he has joined an assortment of people calling for emergency geo - engineering efforts to chill the Arctic).
The oceanographer Wallace Smith Broecker is the man who coined the term «global warming,» way back in 1975, in a paper called «Climate Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?»
Also known as the «Iron Hypothesis», this process is more accurately called Ocean Micro Nutrient Replenishment and was first proposed by oceanographer John Martin in 1993.
Assessment of the seafloor environment, meteorological conditions, and ecological impacts calls for geologists, meteorologists, oceanographers, marine biologists, and other individuals in specialized scientific disciplines.
That is what Wallace Smith Broecker, the avuncular oceanographer who coined the term «global warming,» means when he calls the planet an «angry beast.»
Oceanographers use substances called tracers to study the path and rate of ocean currents and of processes such as mixing that are important parts of the global ocean and climate systems.