Sentences with phrase «oceans continue warming»

Coral reefs, for instance, will have difficulty adapting if the oceans continue warming and become more acidic.

Not exact matches

«If the winds continue to increase as a result of global warming, then we will continue to see increased energy in eddies and jets that will have significant implications for the ability of the Southern Ocean to store carbon dioxide and heat,» said Dr Hogg.

The coverage of living corals on Australia's Great Barrier Reef could decline to less than 10 percent if ocean warming continues, according to a new study that explores the short - and long - term consequences of environmental changes to the reef.

The coverage of living corals on Australia's Great Barrier Reef could decline to less than 10 percent if ocean warming continues, according to a new study.

«We continue to be stunned at how rapidly the ocean is warming,» said Sarah Gille, a Scripps Institution of Oceanography professor.

«An important result of this paper is the demonstration that the oceans have continued to warm over the past decade, at a rate consistent with estimates of Earth's net energy imbalance,» Rintoul said.

This may provide insight about what to expect in the future as Earth's climate continues to warm and oceans keep acidifying.

As waters to continue to warm and ocean acidification changes the chemistry of Earth's marine systems, corals, and the incredible diversity of life they support, are at risk of vanishing.

It takes a long time for the ocean to respond to increasing heat, so even if greenhouse gas emissions dropped to zero tomorrow, the world's seas would continue to rise for centuries because of the warming that's already happened.

However, Earth's crust and oceans would continue to warm — not just for decades but for centuries.

«But the deeper ocean shows no slowing in warming, and sea levels continue to rise — which we believe is still mostly down to thermal expansion,» says Rintoul.

The rapid northerly shifts in spawning may offer a preview of future conditions if ocean warming continues, according to the new study published in Global Change Biology by scientists from the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, Oregon State University and NOAA Fisheries» Northwest Fisheries Science Center.

«The reason that the ocean continues to warm is that Earth is out of energy balance,» Hansen writes.

Even as the surface warms, the deeps remain cool, and this cold water will continue to periodically push the ocean out of the El Niño state.

However, DiNezio's own modelling work also suggests that ENSO will continue in a warmed world: although the rise in temperatures pushes the Pacific towards a permanent El Niño, the ocean pushes back.

«Our research indicates that as global warming continues, parts of East Antarctica will also be affected by these wind - induced changes in ocean currents and temperatures,» Dr Jourdain said.

Another principal investigator for the project, Laura Pan, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., believes storm clusters over this area of the Pacific are likely to influence climate in new ways, especially as the warm ocean temperatures (which feed the storms and chimney) continue to heat up and atmospheric patterns continue to evolve.

As the oceans continue to warm, so will the land around them.)

Climate modeling shows that the trends of warming ocean temperatures, stronger winds and increasingly strong upwelling events are expected to continue in the coming years as carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere increase.

If ocean warming continues, it is predicted that picocyanobacteria, which prefer high temperatures, will become more abundant and could increase 10 to 20 percent by end of century, said Chen.

Trenbeth and others have used simulation - based studies to suggest that the ocean is continuing to warm, but the deeper layers have been warming up more in the last decade.

Vineyards planted at higher altitudes or near the ocean — such as those in Oregon and Washington and in Argentina's Mendoza Province — will be less affected by rising temperatures and may continue to benefit from the warming trend.

The continued top ranking for 2016 may be due in part to El Niño, a cyclical climate event characterized by warmer - than - average waters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, which generated some of the global heat that year.

Researchers today know that the oceans continued to be relatively warm during the Pliocene era, though there has been some uncertainty where waters were warmest.

The continued warming of tropical oceans is likely to cause stresses on ecosystems, such as coral bleaching, and stronger tropical cyclones.

«As the world's oceans continue to warm, we will continue to see climate - driven range expansions,» he predicts.

And the warming of the upper 2 kilometers of the world ocean — a huge heat sink relative to the atmosphere — continued apace through the 2000s.

And, worryingly, the research suggests that as these glaciers melt and retreat backward, the shape of the seabed will continue to expose many of them to warm ocean water for hundreds of miles as the ice moves inland.

«the planet still has a radiative imbalance, and the warming will continue until the oceans have warmed sufficiently to equalise the situation».

While the planet's surface didn't warm as fast, vast amounts of heat energy continued to accumulate in the oceans and with the switch in the PDO, some of this energy could now spill back into the atmosphere.

With the sun continuing to heat the ocean water at the tropical latitudes regardless of ice cap conditions up north, it would seem that the presence of an ice cap would result in a warmer ocean over the long term, with the converse also being true.

As the Earth continued to cool from Years 0.1 to 0.3 billion, a torrential rain fell that turned to steam upon hitting the still hot surface, then superheated water, and finally collected into hot or warm seas and oceans above and around cooling crustal rock leaving sediments.

There is growing scientific concern that corals could retreat from equatorial seas and oceans as the Earth continues to warm, a team of international marine researchers warned toda...

From his own research in chemical oceanography, along with data from a number of recent studies, Weber points out that some negative consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and warming «are manifesting faster than previously predicted,» including ocean acidification and oxygen loss, which are expected to affect «a large fraction of marine species if current trends continue unchecked.»

Continued warming of low latitude oceans in coming decades will provide more water vapor to strengthen such storms.

William M. Gray wrote... I judge our present global ocean circulation to be similar to that of the period of the early 1940s when the globe had shown great warming since 1910, and there was concern as to whether this 1910 - 1940 global warming would continue.

In the paper Gray makes many extravagant claims about how supposed changes in the THC accounted for various 20th century climate changes («I judge our present global ocean circulation conditions to be similar to that of the period of the early 1940s when the globe had shown great warming since 1910, and there was concern as to whether this 1910 - 1940 global warming would continue.

The oceans will continue to warm.

Given the atmospheric lifetime of carbon dioxide is many hundreds to thousands of years, we can now understand that long - lived greenhouses will also continue to exert a warming influence on the worlds oceans for a very long time.

The world's oceans have already risen 7.5 inches since 1901, and if warming continues unabated, they're projected to rise as much as 2 feet by the end of the century.

He later continued: «Now that ocean temperatures are considerably warmer than they were a few decades ago, the maximum potential intensity a hurricane can reach is higher, and we should expect to see a few Patricias sprinkled among the inevitable phalanxes of major hurricanes that will assault our shores in the coming decades.»

But he cautioned that the findings don't «immediately translate into the idea that New England will have stronger hurricanes if oceans continue to warm.»

Today's seas continue to face these threats, as well as from habitat destruction, warming and ocean acidification.

California sea lion crisis has deepened as the number of abandoned, sickly pups continues to increase and the Pacific Ocean becomes warmer.

Because this issue continues to affect all coupled ocean - atmosphere models (e.g., 22 — 24), the warming (Fig. 3) represents the expression of positive biotic feedback mechanisms missing from earlier simulations of these climates obtained with prescribed PI concentrations of trace GHGs.

Is it not the case that if the relative lack of El Niño's and predominance of La Nina's is in fact due to global warming, rather than natural variability, then the current increase in the rate of warming of the ocean below 700m may continue.

Given the number of ways that things can go wrong with continued CO2 emissions (from ocean acidfication and sea level rise to simple warming, shifting precipitation patterns, release of buried carbon in perma - frost, and the possibility of higher climate sensitivities — which seem to be needed to account for glacial / inter-glacial transitions), crossing our fingers and carrying on with BAU seems nothing short of crazy to me.

The global ocean will continue to warm during the 21st century.

climate models suggest that ocean warming will continue for at least a thousand years even if CO2 emissions were to completely stop.

Carbon Brief has posted an excellent piece by Roz Pidcock putting the new Nature Climate Change paper in broader context: «Beneath the waves: How the deep oceans have continued to warm over the past decade.»