Sentences with phrase «of global ocean warming»

req'd] concluded, «Natural and anthropogenic aerosols have substantially delayed and lessened the total amount of global ocean warming — and therefore of sea level rise — that would have arisen purely in response to increasing greenhouse gases.»

DOI: 10.1038 / nclimate1461 135 years of global ocean warming between the Challenger expedition and the Argo Programme

135 years of global ocean warming between the Challenger expedition and the Argo Programme Nature Climate Change, 2 (6), 425 - 428 DOI: 10.1038 / nclimate1461 Hobbs, W., & Willis, J. (2013).

It is also one of the reasons why ~ 25 % of the global oceans warm during a La Nina event, (in addition to warming from the El Nino).

Not exact matches

Experts say the bleaching has been triggered by global warming and El Nino, a warming of parts of the Pacific Ocean that changes weather worldwide.

Individual leaders in the corporate world may be deeply concerned about species diversity, global warming, the pollution of the oceans, the loss of forest cover, and many other matters.

Due to global warming, UConn is now in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, while Pitt is where Indiana once was.

The Atlantic Ocean surface circulation is an important part of the Earth's global climate, moving warm water from the tropics towards the poles.

If global warming melts the world's glaciers and raises sea levels, the first to know about it will be the citizens of the Maldives, a low - lying chain of island atolls in the Indian Ocean.

Global warming is altering — and threatening to erase — much more of the Marshall Islands than the shorelines of this independent Micronesian nation that once served as a Pacific Ocean nuclear weapons test site for the U.S..

In the current context of global warming it is important to assess the impacts that changes in ocean and climate may have on Antarctica, and reconstructing past climate fluctuations provides vital information on the responses and possible feedback mechanisms within the climate system.

Rising levels of CO2 are making it hard for fish to breathe in addition to exacerbating global warming and ocean acidification

Changes in ocean salinity, nutrient runoff and other pollution can cause small - scale bleaching, but scientists say the widespread global bleaching this year is a symptom of unusual ocean warming.

Food production is rising sharply, requiring more carbon - based fuels and nitrogen - based fertilizers, both of which exacerbate global warming, river and ocean pollution, and a host of other ills.

While the addition of iron to forest - size patches of ocean might help mitigate global warming, it is even more important that we use it to mitigate the decline in the ocean's primary productivity.

The Pacific Islands region is the warmest of the global ocean.

Global warming could seriously mess with fisheries in a few ways: Carbon dioxide in the air contributes to ocean acidification, sea level rise could change the dynamics of fisheries, and cold water fish like salmon could be pushed out by warming streams.

The incoming water, part of the global conveyor belt of currents circulating throughout the oceans, is relatively warm and salty compared with the rest of the Southern Ocean.

Ocean floats provide yet more evidence of global warming, revealing that rainy regions are getting wetter and dry regions drier much faster than predicted

As contemporary signs of global warming, Schneider and his colleagues point to rapidly melting polar icecaps, ocean acidification, loss of coral reefs, longer - lasting droughts, more devastating wildfires, and rising sea level.

The intensification of winds in the Southern Ocean is a result of both the depletion of ozone and global warming's affects on the Southern Annular Mode (SAM).

«Considering the Southern Ocean absorbs something like 60 % of heat and anthropogenic CO2 that enters the ocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System SciOcean absorbs something like 60 % of heat and anthropogenic CO2 that enters the ocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Sciocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.

«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.

Venus's cloud - covered face was long thought to obscure a humid twin of Earth with hot, lush jungles, or perhaps a warm global ocean teeming with life.

One of the biggest lingering issues in the global warming slowdown is the full impact of the natural temperature cycles of Earth's oceans.

About 90 percent of global warming is ending up not on land, but in the oceans.

According to the new findings, Earth may be able to significantly reduce global warming by releasing some of the heat through a «vent» in the cloud cover over the Pacific Ocean.

Coral reefs can't find a strong purchase in the eastern tropical Pacific thanks to more acidic waters — a potential precursor of what the ocean will be like under global warming

One of the sturdiest pillars of the argument against global warming has crumbled under the weight of some 10 million newly compiled measurements of ocean temperature.

But a previous round in the 1980s - before global warming was an issue - attracted similar sums, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

This newest threat follows on the heels of overfishing, sediment deposition, nitrate pollution in some areas, coral bleaching caused by global warming, and increasing ocean acidity caused by carbon emissions.

Global warming is also contributing to the rising ocean temperatures on the whole, but «the warming of the ocean alone is not sufficient to explain what we see,» said Eric Rignot, a glacier expert at the University of California, Irvine, in an emailed comment on the new study.

The consequences of global warming may be lower food production, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, worse weather conditions and poor access to fresh water.

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.

Some scientists have proposed seeding the ocean with iron to grow algae, which would capture carbon dioxide and thus help curb global warming — part of a suite of ideas known as geoengineering.

Our global climate models zoom down to finer and finer resolutions; our satellites reveal remote corners of the globe; we increase our understanding of the response of giant ice sheets and deep ocean currents to a warming planet.

«Changes in spawning timing and poleward migration of fish populations due to warmer ocean conditions or global climate change will negatively affect areas that were historically dependent on these fish, and change the food web structure of the areas that the fish move into with unforeseen consequences,» researchers wrote.

In a statement published after the experiment was completed, the Alfred Wegener Institute, where Smetacek works, said the results «dampened hopes on the potential of the Southern Ocean to sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxide and thus mitigate global warming.»

New research into the impact of climate change has found that warming oceans will cause profound changes in the global distribution of marine biodiversity.

Starting from the same kernel of scientific truth as did The Day After Tomorrow — that global warming could disrupt ocean currents in the North Atlantic — a study commissioned by the Pentagon, of all organizations, concluded that the «risk of abrupt climate change... should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a U.S. national security concern.»

Extreme weather does not prove the existence of global warming, but climate change is likely to exaggerate it — by messing with ocean currents, providing extra heat to forming tornadoes, bolstering heat waves, lengthening droughts and causing more precipitation and flooding.

At a global scale, the increased melting of the ice sheet contributes to rising sea level and may impact global ocean circulation patterns through the so - called «thermohaline circulation'that sustains among others, the Gulf Stream, which keeps Europe warm.

Their findings, based on output from four global climate models of varying ocean and atmospheric resolution, indicate that ocean temperature in the U.S. Northeast Shelf is projected to warm twice as fast as previously projected and almost three times faster than the global average.

«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.

«When we included projected Antarctic wind shifts in a detailed global ocean model, we found water up to 4 °C warmer than current temperatures rose up to meet the base of the Antarctic ice shelves,» said lead author Dr Paul Spence from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS).

As global warming affects the earth and ocean, the retreat of the sea ice means there won't be as much cold, dense water, generated through a process known as oceanic convection, created to flow south and feed the Gulf Stream.

Over the past ten years, the Gulf of Maine has warmed faster than 99 % of the global ocean.

The area boasts the world's warmest ocean temperatures and vents massive volumes of warm gases from the surface high into the atmosphere, which may shape global climate and air chemistry enough to impact billions of people worldwide.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI - M), Dr. Katharina Six, Dr. Silvia Kloster, Dr. Tatiana Ilyina, the late Dr. Ernst Maier - Reimer and two co-authors from the US, demonstrate that ocean acidification may amplify global warming through the biogenic production of the marine sulfur component dimethylsulphide (DMS).

Some members of Congress are pushing an omnibus ocean protection bill called Oceans - 21, which aims to regulate fisheries, establish a network of protected areas, provide an oceans management framework to rescue coasts and off - shore areas, and help ocean life survive global waOceans - 21, which aims to regulate fisheries, establish a network of protected areas, provide an oceans management framework to rescue coasts and off - shore areas, and help ocean life survive global waoceans management framework to rescue coasts and off - shore areas, and help ocean life survive global warming.