Sentences with phrase «oceans and the atmosphere interact»

An international jury awarded Broecker the $ 527,000 prize, from Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Foundation, for sounding early alarms about climate change, and for his pioneering work on how the oceans and atmosphere interact.

Not exact matches

The models must track how carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases cycle through the whole system — how the gases interact with plant life, oceans, the atmosphere — and how this influences overall global temperatures.

Current projections of global sea level rise do not account for the complicated behavior of these giant ice slabs as they interact with the atmosphere, the ocean and the land.

Ocean scientists plan to maintain their observations over months and years to study how the Earth, ocean, and atmosphere evolve and inteOcean scientists plan to maintain their observations over months and years to study how the Earth, ocean, and atmosphere evolve and inteocean, and atmosphere evolve and interact.

They calculate changes in heat flows, moisture changes, and other factors in three - dimensional grid boxes — and do so in Earth's atmosphere, at its surface, and beneath the surface of the oceans — with grid boxes interacting with their neighbors.

The two most prominent topics exemplifying this in the last batch of comments are, IMO, 1) the point that the oceans are not simply one big homogenous pot of water, but extremely dynamic environments constantly interacting with the atmosphere, and 2) the point that proper interpretation of statistics, including graphs, demands more than «well, it looks to me...» That second point is really, really, important, and you were previously walked through it a great length (a process Barton, bless his heart, appears ready to recapitulate — and good luck, I say.

Coverage includes original paleoclimatic, diagnostic, analytical and numerical modeling research on the structure and behavior of the atmosphere, oceans, cryosphere, biomass and land surface as interacting components of the dynamics of global climate.

At the same time, this wobble interacts with the nutation motions of the atmosphere and World Ocean.

But working out the how the atmosphere, ocean, and ice interact to cause changes in Antarctic sea ice is complicated, the NOAA report says.

The oceans affect weather and climate by interacting strongly with the atmosphere, and provide immense energy and food resources as well as recreation and transportation benefits to society.

«You can't keep pumping heat into the ocean,» says England, «shoveling it in year after year, without eventually seeing that heat interacting again with the atmosphere and warming the atmosphere.

The slab ocean model is a computationally efficient scheme that allows sea surface temperatures to interact with the atmosphere; and is necessary for propagating energy imbalances due to land cover change that lead to shifts in precipitation.

These and other observations can be integrated into a model with feedbacks and having two unstable end ‐ points that is consistent both with classical studies of past climate states, and also with recent analysis of ice dynamics in the Arctic basin by Zhakarov, whose oscillatory model identifies feedback mechanisms in atmosphere and ocean, both positive and negative, that interact in such a manner as to prevent long ‐ term trends in either ice ‐ loss or ice ‐ gain on the Arctic Ocean to proceed to an ultimate socean, both positive and negative, that interact in such a manner as to prevent long ‐ term trends in either ice ‐ loss or ice ‐ gain on the Arctic Ocean to proceed to an ultimate sOcean to proceed to an ultimate state.

Keep in mind that ENSO is a coupled ocean - atmosphere process and that the trade winds and the temperature gradient (not anomalies) of the tropical Pacific interact.

ENSO is just the biggest of the globally interacting patterns of ocean and atmosphere circulation.

The atmosphere and the ocean are two interacting turbulent media with turbulent processes going on inside them, and there are all sorts and shapes of physical boundary (of the ocean in particular) that «contain'the eddies in a way that may or may not allow prediction of average conditions over areas less than the size of the earth.

«Earth system models» include all that and much more: forests that can shrink or spread as conditions change; marine food webs that react as the oceans grow more acidic with carbon dioxide; and aerosol particles in the atmosphere that interact with greenhouse gases, enhancing or sapping their warming power.

Callendar suggested that the top layer of the ocean, that interacts with the atmosphere, would easily become saturated with carbon dioxide and that would affect its ability to absorb more, because, he thought, the rate of mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters was likely to be very slow.

The induction of kinetic energy from the land surface materialing interacting with available incident photons is a primary source of kinetic energy, via conduction and convection, to the oceans and atmosphere influencing both.