Sentences with phrase «of ocean and atmosphere»

So, no significant changes in CO2 levels in the ocean and no significant changes in CO2 levels in the air over many thousands of years tells us that the large fluxes in and out of the ocean and the atmosphere were in fact in balance during all this time.

«That first thousand meters sets the carbon dioxide balance of the ocean and the atmosphere,» Buesseler said.

Using a coupled model of the ocean and the atmosphere, they were able to successfully replicate these events.

In addition, the authors provide compelling evidence of both the important coupling of ocean and atmosphere processes and the strong communication, of effects of climatic change, between the waters of the Northern and Southern hemisphere through global ocean circulation.»

There are three groups of tipping elements: melting ice bodies, changing circulations of the ocean and atmosphere, and threatened large - scale ecosystems.

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

This is the «coupling» of ocean and atmosphere.

The El Nino Southern Oscillation is a natural — as opposed to man - made - future of the Pacific Ocean, as areas of the Pacific periodically warm then cool every few years, causing significant sea level rises and falls every few years in step with the co-oscillations of the ocean and atmosphere.

The other 23 W / m ^ 2 is due to the temperature difference between the skin of the ocean and the atmosphere with which it exchanges photons.

The new model is able to take these parameters into account by including data about the present state of the ocean and atmosphere, something that's been difficult to do in the past because of a scarcity of data for the ocean.

It requires sophisticated models both of the ocean and the atmosphere.

It modulates the amount of solar energy absorbed during the continuous daylight of summer and it acts as a physical barrier limiting the interaction of the ocean and the atmosphere.

In a new study, researchers claimed that a group of methane - munching microbes that live in rocky dwellings on the seafloor could be preventing large amounts of greenhouse gas from reaching the surface of the ocean and the atmosphere, where it could contribute to rising global temperatures.

The relatively steady rate of warming of both ocean and atmosphere over the past four decades indicates that this must be caused by another process.

Excess heat is what is produced by GHG, but due to heat capacity differences and transient diffusion, the temperatures of ocean and atmosphere + land do not necessarily track until far down the road.

Abstract: Decadal fluctuations of the ocean and atmosphere over the North Pacific Ocean significantly affect the weather and climate of North America and Eurasia.

But there are both long and short term patterns of ocean and atmosphere circulation that modulate both energy in and energy out through chaotic regimes in clouds, ice.

Patterns of ocean and atmosphere circulation shift in response to internal climate dynamics and at a rapid pace determined by the dynamics of the system rather than any external factor.

It links to the patterns of ocean and atmosphere changes seen in the indices.

«Heat escaping from the ocean through polynyas impacts the large - scale energy budget of the ocean and atmosphere, cloud patterns, and even rainfall...»

The interaction of ocean and atmosphere is a complicated one, with a number of factors at work that influence the growth of sea ice.

On million - year time scales, CO2 levels change due to tectonic activity, which affects the rates of CO2 exchange of ocean and atmosphere with the solid Earth.

The critical thing, however is that this heat engine depends on the temperature differential between the surface of the ocean and the atmosphere above to provide the vertical convective loop.

This suggestion of an accelerated warming in a deep layer of the ocean has been suggested mostly on the basis of results from reanalyses of different types (that is, numerical simulations of the ocean and atmosphere that are forced to fit observations in some manner).

And so far, you still have not replied to my points in 156 and 231 that explain where the heat increase in the total system of ocean and atmosphere comes from and that demonstrates the physically impossibility of your main causal claim that all the ocean heat content increase since 2000 is merely due to a transfer of heat from the atmosphere, where you claim that all this heat was in the atmosphere in 1979.

I then applied a 1 watt / sq meter forcing to a 10 meter thick slab of ocean and he atmosphere above to get a warming of 0.6 C per year.

Here's an excerpt, followed by some input (including criticism) I got from other scientists focused on the interplay of the ocean and atmosphere: Read more...

The interaction of the ocean and atmosphere means that these changes in sea surface temperatures are translated into changes in wind direction and strength.

Using a coupled model of the ocean and the atmosphere, they were able to successfully replicate these events.

«While advances in science and technology and improved safety practices have significantly reduced the threat of oil spills in Canadian waters over the past few decades, much about the fate, environmental impacts and remediation of oil spills remain poorly understood,» said Kenneth Lee, the director of Oceans and Atmosphere, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Perth, Western Australia and chair of the seven - member panel.

«While the detection of greening is based on data, the attribution to various drivers is based on models,» said co-author Josep Canadell of the Oceans and Atmosphere Division in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra, Australia.

«Constant assault» anticipated Rubio will chair the oceans, atmosphere and fisheries subcommittee that has jurisdiction over the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-- the agency that focuses on the health of the oceans and atmosphere.

It turns out that Earth's rotation and the presence of oceans and atmosphere on its surface mean it can be described as a «topological insulator» — a term usually reserved for quantum phenomena.

Instruments that measure physical and chemical aspects of the oceans and atmosphere can mounted on or suspended from a buoy.

The computer models in use are not, by necessity, direct calculations of all basic physics but rely upon empirical approximations for many of the smaller scale processes of the oceans and atmosphere.

I've collected some thoughts from the paper's authors, and also from a batch of other researchers separately studying the interplay of oceans and atmospheres and attempts to sift out different drivers of climate variability and change.

Remember, we are not «doing nothing», we are taking definite action every day to change the composition of the oceans and the atmosphere.

«When we are modelling the physics of the oceans and the atmosphere, we do have some fundamental equations.

Due to warming of the oceans and atmosphere, the amount of ice on Earth is declining — from glaciers to the Arctic & Antarctic.

Because of the different heat capacity of the oceans and the atmosphere — the amount of energy which would heat the atmosphere by 1 K (Kelvin) will only heat the oceans by 0.001 K. Any lack of warming of the troposphere can be excused by a minuscule change in ocean temperature.

Actually, Jeff Weiss comes from the community of nonlinear geosciences, which does look at climate problems and issues related to the circulation of the oceans and atmosphere.

How on earth anyone claims to know the total global average temperature today, including all layers of the oceans and atmosphere, begs belief.

The average temperature of the oceans and atmosphere and the acidity of the oceans are all increasing.

What would seem to matter more — wrt climate and not weather — is the total energy content of the oceans and atmosphere.

Joels proof of the «greenhouse theory» involves getting rid of the Oceans and atmosphere.

Of the 350 job losses across CSIRO — which studies all kinds of things, not just climate science — 110 were to the climate unit of the Oceans and Atmosphere department, and a similar number to Land and Water.

As many scientists have pointed out, variations in global temperature correlate much better with solar activity and with complicated cycles of the oceans and atmosphere.

As the Joint Institute for the Study of the Oceans and the Atmosphere says, from â a societal impacts perspective, recognition of PDO is important because it shows that «normal» climate conditions can vary over time periods comparable to the length of a human's lifetime.â

But the next day, the next month and the next year humanity's actions will see the concentration of greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere grow, the energy content of the oceans and atmosphere increase, and seas will inexorably rise.

(Source: Joint Institute for the Study of the Oceans and the Atmosphere)