Sentences with phrase «oceans hold more»

Whatever happens to the isotope ratio the fact is that warmer oceans hold less CO2 and colder oceans hold more CO2.

The upper 3 meters of the world's oceans hold more heat than the entire atmosphere, so continual ventilation of just 10 meters of warmer subsurface water will affect the global average for decades.

Oceans hold more heat than the atmosphere and land.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn — The oceans hold more than four billion tons of uranium — enough to meet global energy needs for the next 10,000 years if only we could capture the element from seawater to fuel nuclear power plants.

In 2014, scientists estimated that the ocean holds more than 5 trillion pieces of floating plastic, which together weigh more than 250,000 tons.

Except for some La Niña - cooled regions of the tropical Pacific and a few other cool spots, the upper ocean held more heat than average in 2011 in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Southern Oceans.

Not exact matches

Increasing heat is also warming up the ocean, and hotter air holds onto more moisture, increasing the available energy for hurricanes.

By the early 1970s, huge baptismal services were held at the ocean — «happenings» which attracted considerable media attention and more interest in the church.

Nutiva is focused on regenerative agriculture so it can sequester carbon from the atmosphere and oceans, putting it into the soil so the soil can hold more water, use less fertilizer and enhance nutritional elements in foods.

Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Scientific research suggests that global warming causes heavier rainfall because a hotter atmosphere can hold more moisture and warmer oceans evaporate faster feeding the atmosphere with more moisture.

But the process of its formation and outward movement aids in our understanding of how Saturn's icy moons, including the cloud - wrapped Titan and ocean - holding Enceladus, may have formed in more massive rings long ago.

«If this outlook holds true, this season could be one of the more active on record,» said Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator.

MAUNA KEA, HI — A primitive ocean on Mars once held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who measured signatures of water in the planet's atmosphere using the most powerful telescopes on Earth including the W. M. Keck Observatory in Haocean on Mars once held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who measured signatures of water in the planet's atmosphere using the most powerful telescopes on Earth including the W. M. Keck Observatory in HaOcean, according to NASA scientists who measured signatures of water in the planet's atmosphere using the most powerful telescopes on Earth including the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.

NASA scientists have determined that a primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean and that the Red Planet has lost 87 percent of that water to socean on Mars held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean and that the Red Planet has lost 87 percent of that water to sOcean and that the Red Planet has lost 87 percent of that water to space.

Experiments on coral reefs and sea butterflies hint at what the future may hold if more carbon dioxide ends up in the oceans.

Colder water can hold more carbon dioxide, however, the deep ocean is already an average of 4C and will freeze (salty or not) at around -1.8 C.

Higher temperatures lead to more evaporation from lakes, rivers and oceans, and warmer air can hold more moisture.

With hotter temperatures, more water evaporates off the oceans, and the atmosphere can hold more moisture.

But while I, a grownup film buff, appreciated Ocean's Eleven for all these things and more, I certainly wouldn't have predicted that it might hold the same interest for my kids.

Seems this might hold for larger scale events, such as the arctic ice melting (i.e., there would be more warming in the arctic ocean in our current times, except some of the «warming» energy is going into the melting process rather than warming).

This makes sense because the oceans are the primary source of CO2, and they hold more CO2 when cool than when warm.

And eventually as the far more massive ocean cooled it would be able to hold more dissolved CO2, so atmospheric CO2 would be drawn down, thus reducing the greenhouse effect further (even more energy out).

I myself am a bit fuzzy on the mechanisms here, but I know that as ocean temperatures drop, they hold more CO2, so that's one sink.

This warming is less than it will ultimately be, because the cool ocean surface holds back the warming — allowing more energy loss out the bottom than will ultimately be the case.

You have more intense capacitive couplings in some places impacting microphysics and less intense in others, depending on the ocean currents and the induction meaning they hold.

«If this outlook holds true, this season could be one of the more active on record,» said Jane Lubchenco, the agency administrator and under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere.

Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

With hotter temperatures, more water evaporates off the oceans, and the atmosphere can hold more moisture.

Warmer air holds more water vapour so that warmer air will extract more vapour from the ocean surface thereby cooling the ocean surface..

In nature terms, when the temperatures are cooler, the ocean water is able to hold much more CO2.

And we can see that the ocean is being a net sink because it is becoming more acidic, which means it is holding more CO2 not less (and by the way, «more acidic» is equivalent to «less basic», regardless of whether you are at pH 7, 10, or 3.

Coby, if the earth is warming as a result of increased periodic solar activity (or some other more complex reason) as suggested by the long term cycles mentioned above measured before man was on earth or industrialized, is it posssible that the observed increases in CO2 in the atmosphere are simply coming from warmer oceans, since liquids can not hold as much gas at a higher temperature than they can at lower temperature?

And really, warmer oceans holding less co2, I agree with that, then how are you explaining the the sinks that are currently, by official standards, pulling out 1 and half times more co2 than all that was produced in 1965?

The oceans, though, hold much more heat than the atmosphere; e.g. the top 15 cm (6 inches) of ocean waters contain more heat than the entire atmosphere.

Plankton is largest CO2 absorber, but also oceans are near or largest (by far largest in the more distant past) CO2 emitters, so if CO2 happen to be an important factor than: High UV / radiation = reduction in plankton = less CO2 absorbed = warming, reverse holds true.

The oceans hold three billion cubic kilometres of water, more that enough for any imaginable need.

Globally, their findings suggest that the upper oceans hold 24 to 58 percent more heat than previously reported.

If you give the atmosphere more CO2, it holds more joules and at times give more of those back to the oceans.

The revised statement is more sensible, but I would suggest you critically examine your concept of «distorting markets» particularly as regards what economists term «unowned resources,» such as a breathable atmosphere, fields or forests held in common (as in the original «Tragedy of the Commons»), stocks of fish in the ocean, or drinking water from lakes and rivers.

Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice...

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/43/18045.full About a decade ago, Canfield (1) offered a very different possibility — that ventilation of the deep ocean lagged behind the GOE by more than a billion years, resulting in a vast, deep reservoir of hydrogen sulfide, but long - held presumptions about photosynthetic life in the surface waters remained untouched.

Pretty simple, the warmer the oceans and the atmosphere, the faster water evaporates from the oceans and the more water vapor the atmosphere can hold = > more greenhouse effect from water vapor in the atmosphere.

CO2 acts there as a feedback, with warmer / colder oceans holding less / more CO2, and changing CO2 concentrations along with (lagging) temperature changes induced by (forced by) insolation changes due to orbital mechanics.

Colder oceans can hold more CO2.

The world's climate is way too complex... with way too many significant global and regional variables (e.g., solar, volcanic and geologic activity, variations in the strength and path of the jet stream and major ocean currents, the seasons created by the tilt of the earth, and the concentration of water vapor in the atmosphere, which by the way is many times more effective at holding heat near the surface of the earth than is carbon dioxide, a non-toxic, trace gas that all plant life must have to survive, and that produce the oxygen that WE need to survive) to consider for any so - called climate model to generate a reliable and reproducible predictive model.

Scientists have long known that increasing ocean temperatures can lead to more ocean dead zones as warmer water holds less oxygen.

Question: how much heat (in Joules) does the ocean hold today, and how more could it absorb before it would cause the SST to rise by 1C or more?

As the temperature increased in the past, oceans also released more carbon dioxide because warm water holds less carbon dioxide than cold water.

And, going back to the Little Ice Age, with the oceans appropriately a lot cooler than today they could hold more carbon dioxide and less was released into the air.