Sentences with phrase «of ocean volume»

Enhanced nutrient levels thus increased ocean production in the surface and oxygen consumption in the deep ocean, causing ~ 50 % and at least 40 % of the ocean volume to become dysoxic / anoxic during OAE 1a and OAE 2 respectively.

The 2010 sea level decline resulted from a major transfers of ocean volume to the land in the form rain as a result of a strong La Nina event.

With overturning taken into account, more than two fifths of the ocean volume becomes a dead zone.

From an earlier article by Bob Tisdale: «That obviously means that about 48 % of the ocean volume is above 2000 meters.»

It still has problems, is still only sampling a tiny fraction of ocean volume.

That's because the mixed layer (surface to 300 meters) is only about 10 % of the ocean volume.

Overall our model - data comparison shows that OAE2 anoxia was quasi-global spreading from 5 % of the ocean volume before the event to at least 50 % during OAE2.

Not exact matches

The total volume of rain is easier to calculate when a storm remains over a fixed area, but it much harder to suss out when hurricanes remain mobile and dump water over a wide swath of land and ocean.

The hush calmer gives you a choice of three soothing white noise sounds to choose from; heartbeat, ocean waves or rain falling on a tin roof, all set at a safe volume for baby's ears.

For instance this sleep sheep, produces the sound of ocean surf, whale song, mother's heart beat and spring flowers, with adjustable volumes.

Scientific observations show that in the Arctic, warming temperatures have led to a 75 % loss in sea ice volume since the 1980s, and recent reports suggest the Arctic Ocean will be nearly free of summer sea ice by 2050, said Sullivan.

Ribas and collaborators came up with equally likely scenarios in which Proxima b loses less water than the volume of Earth's oceans.

The melting of a rather small ice volume on East Antarctica's shore could trigger a persistent ice discharge into the ocean, resulting in unstoppable sea - level rise for thousands of years to come.

The ocean conveyor system, Rutgers scientists believe, changed at the same time as a major expansion in the volume of the glaciers in the northern hemisphere as well as a substantial fall in sea levels.

Slightly smaller than Earth's moon, Europa contains perhaps three times the volume of water of Earth's oceans.

In this model, the ocean beneath the ice makes up 40 % of the total volume of the moon, while its salt content is estimated to be similar to that of Earth's oceans.

Such an ancient date required the researchers to make a few educated guesses about the early planet, such as assuming it had a shallow ocean just 10 percent the volume of that on Earth today.

The volume of ice divergence has doubled since 2000 due to a more mobile ice cover as multiyear ice has declined, which can explain the drastic ice reduction in the Arctic Ocean in recent years.

The odds of randomly picking a wine molecule from the ocean is tiny — about 10 - 21 — because the volume of the bottle is so small relative to the volume of the 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.

Yet farming and ranching already exact a daunting toll on the environment: burn down rain forests to create more arable land, dump fertilizers onto fields that run off and choke life in rivers and oceans, emit volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, use up vast stores of freshwater for irrigation.

This glacial meltwater lake was enclosed in ice and experienced a massive breach during this period, which emptied an enormous volume of water into the ocean,» explains Herrle.

Now Brazilian officials speak of 50 billion barrels or more lying below the salt: a 160 - million - year - old empire of hydrocarbons, comparable in volume to the great oil fields of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, spread below an expanse of ocean half the size of Italy — all suddenly within reach.

Researchers looking to solve this mystery found that ocean heat content had remained high, so a sudden chill in ocean waters (which would have caused upper layers of the seas to shrink in volume) wasn't the answer.

If this scenario is accurate, Earth may today hold half as much water in its depths as is currently flowing in oceans on the surface, Panero said — an amount that would approximately equal the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

Combining satellite observations with ocean numerical modeling, Khazendar and his colleagues developed a hypothesis that reductions in the volume of brine would increase Totten's thinning and melting.

Additionally, the new estimate of the amount of water needed to sculpt the valleys is at least one order of magnitude larger than the volume of a hypothesized ocean and 4,000 times the volume of the valley cavities, Luo said.

At the end of this summer, only a quarter of the Arctic Ocean was still covered in ice, a record low in modern times, and the total volume of ice was just a fifth of what it was three decades ago (see «Record Arctic ice loss»).

«The deeper [dolphins] go into the ocean, the smaller the volume of gas or air in the lungs gets,» said study lead author Andreas Fahlman, a professor of biology at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi.

Such an ocean would have a volume equivalent to all of Earth's oceans combined.

The volume of Mars» early ocean must have been at least 20 million km3.

And any increase would be small relative to the volume of the ocean, so the increase in salinity would be minimal.

To understand sea - level change means understanding not only the transfer of land ice into the ocean, but also, for example, how the gravitational field of the Earth changes as inconceivably large water volumes shift around the planet.

This Volume 16 of series Sharing Innovative Experiences is a joint initiative of the Special Unit for South - South Cooperation, hosted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP SS) and the International Ocean Institute (IOI), Headquartered in Malta.

Sea level rise has two primary components: the expansion in volume of seawater with increased temperature and the addition of water in ocean basins from the melting of land - locked ice, including Antarctica and Greenland.

«Due to its large volume and surface area, the biogeochemical processes in the ocean are the main control on the levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,» Buchanan said.

Scientists have long suspected that the network of cracks in Europa's ice sheet could indicate a large volume of water underneath, and recent analysis of magnetic field data from the Galileo probe seems to confirm there is a salty ocean down there.

All of the oceans on Earth are estimated to have a volume of 0.3 billion cubic miles (1.332 billion cubic kilometers) and an average depth of 12,080.7 feet (3,682.2 meters).

Each volume contains key legal and policy instruments and an annually updated global directory of ocean - related organizations.

Articles on issues and prospects, ocean governance, living resources of the ocean, non-living ocean resources, transportation and communications, environment and coastal management, maritime security, military activities, regional developments, training and education, and ocean polar issues will be considered for Volume 33.

Based on the linear trend, for the 0 to 3,000 m layer for the period 1961 to 2003 there has been an increase of ocean heat content of approximately 14.2 ± 2.4 × 1022 J, corresponding to a global ocean volume mean temperature increase of 0.037 °C during this period.

ICESat - 2 will add to our understanding of Arctic sea ice by measuring sea ice thickness from space, providing scientists more complete information about the volume of sea ice in the Arctic and Southern oceans.

These massive farms, or CAFOs — Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations — can house hundreds of thousands of animals in confined spaces, creating potent volumes of nutrient pollution that have fouled rivers, lakes and oceans.

The heat content of the world ocean increased by ~ 2 × 10 ^ 23 joules between the mid-1950s and mid-1990s, representing a volume mean warming of 0.06 °C.

If so, this could be serious not only for marine life that feeds on them — but also for humans, as it could impair the oceans» ability to soak up increased volumes of CO2 from the atmosphere.

Writing in Nature Climate Change, two scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) say the melting of quite a small volume of ice on the East Antarctic shore could ultimately trigger a discharge of ice into the ocean which would result in unstoppable sea - level rise for thousands of years ahead.

When it falls into the ocean, it adds to the overall volume of liquid in the seas.

The latter is almost linearly related to changes in ice sheet volume; the former, however, is influenced by a range of factors, including atmosphere / ocean dynamics and changes in Earth's gravitational field, rotation, and crustal and the mantle deformation associated with the redistribution of mass between land ice and the ocean.

The typical estimate of the sea - level change is five metres, a value arrived at by taking the total volume of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, converting it to water and spreading it evenly across the oceans.

Good health depends on the delicate balance between the volumes of these two oceans.