This «Q - flux» is the prescribed effect
of ocean transport.
Hansen 1988 did use other forcing but he decoupled the ocean feedback writing, «we stress that this «surprise - free» representation of the ocean excludes the effects of natural variability
of ocean transports and the possibility of switches in the basic mode of ocean circulation.»
Not exact matches
Malaysia's deputy
transport minister says it is «almost certain» that the wreckage found on Reunion island in the Indian
Ocean this week is from a Boeing 777 — the same type
of aircraft as missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
The starting point for the discussion was five specific global risks: Resistance to life saving medicine Accelerating
transport emissions Loss
of ocean biodiversity Global food crisis A Generation Wasted These risk represent a pressure -LSB-...]
These 15 risks are: Lack
of Fresh Water, Unsustainable Urbanization, Continued Lock - in to Fossil Fuels, Chronic Diseases, Extreme Weather, Loss
of Ocean Biodiversity, Resistance to Life - saving Medicine, Accelerating
Transport Emissions, Youth Unemployment, Global Food Crisis, Unstable Regions, Soil Depletion, Rising Inequality, Cities Disrupted by Climate Change & Cyber Threats.
The starting point for the discussion was five specific global risks: Resistance to life saving medicine Accelerating
transport emissions Loss
of ocean biodiversity Global food crisis A Generation Wasted These risk represent a -LSB-...]
And even though these are merely proposed restrictions for now — it's hard to test the constitutionality
of a press release, one environmental law academic noted — they could well become a second front in the ongoing battle against
transporting bitumen across rivers, alongside lakes and toward
oceans.
The new report will highlight untapped opportunities for both business and society, stemming from five risks: Resistance to Lifesaving Medicine, Accelerating
Transport Emissions, Loss
of Ocean Biodiversity, Global Food Crisis and A Generation Wasted.
Kohl says that there will be enough supply to meet the demand over the next decade in Greater Vancouver, although Fraser Valley gravel sources on land will become depleted, necessitating the
transport of gravel by
ocean barge from Texada Island.
The Company is engaged in the seaborne transportation industry through the ownership
of containerships and operates its fleet through Unitized
Ocean Transport Limited (UOT), a subsidiary
of the Company.
John Newton a captain on a slave ship, transformed by prayer and prayer alone mid
ocean in the very act
of transporting human cargo.
Most
of the
ocean's salts were derived from gradual processes such the breaking up
of the cooled igneous rocks
of the Earth's crust by weathering and erosion, the wearing down
of mountains, and the dissolving action
of rains and streams which
transported their mineral washings to the sea.
Accordingly, at no small cost in money and effort, it was towed across the Atlantic
Ocean on a specially constructed barge, unloaded, and
transported through the streets
of New York City on a specially built, very wide - tired truck, to its present site in Central Park near the Metropolitan Art Museum.
A pipeline feasibility study on the possibility
of transporting oil from Kenya and Uganda — where Tullow has another operation — to the Indian
Ocean is planned.
Under the proposal, County Executive Edward Mangano said Nassau would use 10 miles
of the county - owned aqueduct that runs under Sunrise Highway to
transport treated effluent from Bay Park to the
ocean - outfall pipe at the county's Wantagh sewage - treatment plant.
Concurrently, coastlines
of the Bahamas and Bermuda were impacted by massive storms generated in the North Atlantic
Ocean, resulting in a unique trilogy
of wave -
transported deposits: megaboulders, chevron - shaped, storm - beach ridges, and runup deposits on high dune ridges.
The Carbon cycle is a geological process that regulates the CO2 - level in the atmosphere and with that, the temperature
of the planet's surface: In the
ocean, CO2, in its dissolved form, undergoes a chemical reaction and is then
transported into Earth's mantle.
Unicellular calcifying algae such as Emiliania huxleyi play an important role in the
transport of carbon to the deep
ocean.
«We know the sediments are
of deep sea and terrestrial origin, including those eroded from the high Himalayas and
transported thousands
of kilometres into the Bay
of Bengal and eastern Indian
Ocean.
These large Northern Hemisphere cooling events have previously been linked to a change in the Atlantic
Ocean circulation that led to a reduced
transport of warm water to the high latitudes in the North.
«Using a numerical climate model we found that sulfate reductions over Europe between 1980 and 2005 could explain a significant fraction
of the amplified warming in the Arctic region during that period due to changes in long - range
transport, atmospheric winds and
ocean currents.
Zooplankton no bigger than grains
of rice play a much larger role in the
transport and storage
of CO2 in the
ocean than previously thought
«We found that heat
transported by
oceans would have a major impact on the temperature distribution across a planet, and would potentially allow a greater area
of a planet to be habitable.
Nearly two years to the day after the Deepwater Horizon incident, scientists from the Consortium for Advanced Research on
Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE), based at the University
of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School
of Marine and Atmospheric Science, conducted a drifter experiment in the northern Gulf
of Mexico spill site to study small - scale
ocean currents ranging from 100 meters to 100 kilometers.
Water vapor originating from the Earth's tropics is
transported to midlatitudes on long filaments
of flowing air that intermittently travel across the world's
oceans.
Based on simulations using real weather data in the Atlantic
Ocean, the work was focused specifically on the
transport of water from the tropics
of the Caribbean to the Iberian Peninsula in Spain, but it suggests a more general way to study the
transport of tropical water vapor globally.
«As the climate gets warmer, the thawing permafrost not only enables the release
of more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, but our study shows that it also allows much more mineral - laden and nutrient - rich water to be
transported to rivers, groundwater and eventually the Arctic
Ocean,» explained Ryan Toohey, a researcher at the Interior Department's Alaska Climate Science Center in Anchorage and the lead author
of the study.
«The Importance
of Planetary Rotation Period for
Ocean Heat
Transport» is published in the journal Astrobiology on Monday, July 21, 2014.
They looked at how different planetary rotation rates would impact heat
transport with the presence
of oceans taken into account.
Marine litter can act as an enabler
of this loss: non-indigenous invasive species often use litter in the
ocean as a habitat in which to hide, as a platform on which to settle or as a
transport medium for moving into new territories.
Only further investigation will reveal how much
of it makes its way from the river
transport to the deep
ocean, however, and how it might affect marine life, especially microbial communities that live in and feed on small organic particles.
Dr. Hoffmann: «The isotope Hafnium 176 in contrast to its counterpart Neodymium 143 was
transported by means
of weathering into the
oceans and became part
of iron - rich sediments on the sea floor 2,700 million years ago.»
Air and
ocean transport make up only 3 %
of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Over the
oceans, some contain organic or biological ingredients (bacteria, degradation products
of microscopic algae) which come from sea spray, others are
transported in the air (mineral dust, smoke).
The major influences on
ocean chemistry today are hydrothermal flow (hot water that has circulated through the crust) and surface weathering (the river
transport of material eroded from land into the
ocean).
Part
of the fresh water likely originates from melting
of the Greenland Ice Sheet north
of the Young Sound and is
transported with the East Greenland
ocean current along the eastern coast
of Greenland.
Changes to the
transport of heat by the Earth's atmosphere and
oceans to the poles have also been suggested as a possible contributor to the steep rise in Arctic temperatures.
COAWST combines models
of ocean, atmosphere, waves and sediment
transport for analysis
of coastal change.
Upper -
ocean processes dissipate heat,
transport nutrients and impact the uptake
of carbon dioxide — making circulation a critical driver
of biological activity in the
ocean.
The team focused on Saharan dust
transported across the Atlantic
Ocean to South America and beyond, to the Caribbean Sea, because it is the largest
transport of dust on the planet.
The researchers also found that larval behavior enhances the persistence
of these network connections, when compared to passive
transport by the
ocean currents.
Principle topics
of the
ocean margin systems workshop were microbial systems in sedimentary environments, fluid flow and subsurface material
transport, margin building / regulating processes, and benthic population dynamics and relationships to sedimentary settings.
Because
ocean currents play a major role in
transporting the planet's heat and carbon, the ECCO simulations are being used to understand the
ocean's influence on global climate and the melting
of ice in polar regions.
A large portion
of biologically fixed carbon is formed by picocyanobacteria at the sea surface and then
transported to the deep
ocean.
As a result there was an increase in moisture
transport out
of the Atlantic, which effectively increased the salinity and density,
of the
ocean surfaces, leading to an abrupt increase in circulation strength and temperature rise.
According to the researchers,
oceans are a central component in the global carbon cycle through their storage,
transport and transformations
of carbon constituents.
«In that area, like on the eastern boundaries
of other tropical
oceans, nutrient - rich waters from deeper water layers are
transported to the surface,» explains co-author Prof. Dr. Hermann Bange, also from GEOMAR.
Rivers
transport 200 million tons
of carbon to the
oceans every year, according to new research that calculates the role
of rivers in carbon storage.
Collision
of climate variants One, called the negative phase
of the Indian
Ocean Dipole, is an atmospheric circulation in the tropical Indian
Ocean that
transports water from west to east.
The Indian
Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) was an international, multiplatform field campaign to measure long - range
transport of air pollution from South and Southeast Asia toward the Indian
Ocean during the dry monsoon season in January to March 1999.