Sentences with phrase «of ocean mass»

Relative contributions of ocean mass and deep steric changes to sea level rise between 1993 and 2013

The former redistributes ocean volume within the basins, while the latter alters Earth's gravitational field and rate of rotation enough to change the distribution of ocean mass around the surface of the Earth.

Monthly observations from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) can provide estimates of the ocean mass component of the sea level budget, but full use of the data requires a detailed understanding of its errors and biases.

The role of SAL is also examined in the interpretation of GRACE - derived measurements of ocean mass.

The results show that the effects of SAL physics lead to time - varying, non-uniform spatial patterns and are an important component of ocean mass variability on scales from months to years.

But when it comes to the gravitational redistribution of ocean mass, it is the ice masses furthest away to which you should pay the most attention.

Yan suspected this wandering could shift the distribution of ocean mass enough to brake Earth's spinning, thus slightly stretching day length.

Not exact matches

Storm surge — the mass of water hurricanes push onshore from the ocean — will have a higher bed of water that will rush farther inland and destroy more property.

Nature is responsible for killing almost 100 % of insects, fish and invertebrates before they even hatch (ever wonder how it is that fish lay so many eggs and yet our oceans are not a solid mass of exponentially expanding fish populations?).

We don't know exactly how much plastic is floating in our oceans because of the huge mass of plastic produced in the earth on a yearly basis.

In a future which will increasingly be characterized by mass migration and the shifting of political borders, the Ocean Model of Civilisation can serve as a constructive paradigm for greater global security — especially its transcultural dimension — by promoting better and more dignified treatment of human beings, tolerance of diversity and respect for differences.

«If we don't rapidly transition off of fossil fuels, the resulting climate catastrophe means mass extinctions, the collapse of ocean and land ecosystems, and flooding of the world's cities and bread - basket deltas,» Hawkins said.

Spanning a land mass of 238,535 km2, Ghana is bordered by the Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo in the east and the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean in the south.

For a rope cloud to form, the leading edge of the cold air mass must be advancing straight and steady, which can happen only if it is flowing over a smooth, flat surface like the ocean.

The aim of my PhD is to use the distribution of diatom species preserved in sediment cores across the Scotia Sea to reconstruct the position of major ocean boundaries and water masses through time.

Scientists blame unusually warm ocean temperatures this year for the mass devastation of the world's corals

All that extra mass creates internal pressures far exceeding terrestrial squeezing, with implications for three life - critical planetary properties: the maintenance of oceans, climatic «thermostats» and magnetic fields.

«So if I have this depression at the south pole, and I have beneath the surface 50 kilometers down a layer of water or an ocean, that layer of water at depth is a positive mass anomaly.

When it's cold enough to form ice shelves that extend over the Antarctic land mass and into the ocean, much of what drops to the seafloor is sand and gravel that the glacier has picked up on its slow march from the continent's ice cap.

Using more than a dozen instruments placed around the habitat, including a first - of - its - kind underwater mass spectrometer that tracks fluctuations in key gases up and down the ocean waters, aquanauts watch readouts in real time on computer screens.

«This provided a slow trickle of food for organisms living near the ocean floor which enabled them to survive the mass extinction, answering one of the outstanding questions that still remained regarding this period of history.

They also reported that microbes may account for as much as 90 percent of the mass of all ocean life.

Researchers were astounded when, in the fall of 2007, they discovered that the year - round ice pack in the Arctic Ocean had lost some 20 percent of its mass in just two years, setting a new record low since satellite imagery began documenting the terrain in 1978.

A mass of water called the North Atlantic Deep Water enters the Southern Ocean off the southeast coast of South America (star in map below left).

«We found out that the ocean ends up winning in terms of mass.

Scientists also claim that the impact of the asteroid would have filled Earth's atmosphere with sulphur trioxide, subsequently creating a gas cloud that would have caused a mass amount of sulphuric acid rain to fall in just a few days, making the surface of the ocean too acidic for upper ocean creatures to live.

This new map allows scientists to determine the age of large swaths of the second largest mass of ice on Earth, an area containing enough water to raise ocean levels by about 20 feet.

Also, why do we not see mass freezing of land animals before sea animals are affected, given the relative stability of ocean temperatures?

The sun and moon tug on the planet, while the drift of continents, changes in ocean currents, and the rebounding of the crust since the retreat of ice age glaciers all shift mass around, altering Earth's moment of inertia and therefore its spin.

She found that planets two to four times the mass of Earth are even better at establishing and maintaining oceans than our Earth.

In one study published in Geophysical Research Letters in 2007, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, estimated the mass redistribution resulting from ocean warming would shorten the day by 120 microseconds, or nearly one tenth of a millisecond, over the next two centuries.

Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corals.

Daniel Rosenfield and his colleagues at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem studied satellite data of air masses over the Indian Ocean, which contain large numbers of air pollution particles blown off the surrounding continents.

Much of the deep ocean can replenish (often just barely) the oxygen consumed during these mass migrations, which are known as diel vertical migrations (DVMs).

A new reconstruction of Antarctic ocean temperatures around the time the dinosaurs disappeared 66 million years ago supports the idea that one of the planet's biggest mass extinctions was due to the combined effects of volcanic eruptions and an asteroid impact.

The coastline was barely recognizable; what had been one of the most beautiful and regular harbors in Asia now was an obstacle course, littered with masses of black pumice stone, tree trunks burnt and splintered as if by lightning, and the prows of previously sunken ships which the ocean had thrown onto land.

Other co-authors on the study, titled «Ecological selectivity of the emerging mass extinction in the oceans,» include Andrew Bush of the University of Connecticut and Doug McCauley of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

«The total amount of water there is nearly the same as the mass of all the world's ocean water.»

«What this tells us is that if Sputnik Planum is indeed a positive mass anomaly — and it appears as though it is — this ocean layer of at least 100 kilometers has to be there,» Johnson said.

«We know that past acidification events played a role in mass extinctions, when lots of animals and plants disappeared from the ocean,» Gattuso says.

Not that it would have; it does not take terrorist mass murder or envelopes full of anthrax to make us forget the ocean.

The fungus was blamed for mass mortalities in the nests of loggerhead sea turtles in Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean.

«Starting back in the 1960s, for various reasons people claimed there was very little continental mass, and so there wasn't enough weathering to affect the chemistry of the ocean.

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Blasts of it have been linked, in respectable journals, to mass extinctions, to undersea landslides that caused ocean - crossing tsunamis, and even to the mysterious disappearance of ships at sea.

«Figuring out how mass rarity in a wide range of species in today's oceans may scale up to a mass extinction on longer timescales is one of the great scientific challenges of our generation.»

Persistent mass of warm water is reshuffling ocean currents, marine ecosystems, and inland weather.

Visitors can enter models of the explorers» base camps and view a computer map of Antarctica outlining the ocean currents around the continent and the land masses and mountains that lie hidden beneath the ice.

«What is most interesting is that there are big shifts in the surface mass balance that occur from only very small changes in radiative forcing,» said Ullman, who is in OSU's College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences.

GA maps the land masses below the ocean's surface through basic geological work and seismic and bathymetric analysis (measuring water depth at various places in a body of water) to better define and legally extend Australia's continental shelf for a submission to the United Nations under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.