But because one big storm takes much more
heat out of the ocean than two smaller storms, the expectation is that numbers may decline.
For years, people have warned that the smallest nations on the planet — island states that barely
rise out of the ocean — face being wiped off the map by rising sea levels.
At any organization, senior leaders are expected to lift clarity and relevance
out of an ocean of data and information.
Adding further greenhouse gases to the atmosphere warms the ocean cool skin layer, which in turn reduces the amount of heat
flowing out of the ocean.
If it also has heat flowing into rather than
out of the oceans during the growth of the warm phase of this mode, that would be even more dramatic news.
If you pull the
trend out of the ocean indices, as you should do, you can get something like a natural climate variable.
The same concept applies to the cool skin layer - warm the top of the layer and the gradient across it decreases, therefore reducing heat
flowing out of the ocean.
Thousands of miles of undersea fiber - optic cables that convey data from continent to continent rise
out of the ocean in only a few dozen locations, branching out from those hubs to connect to millions of computers.
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I do think it has been clear for a while that interactions with the ocean provide the greatest potential for surprises and rapid changes, and that Greenland's ice sheet would mostly
pull out of the ocean before it lost most of its mass.
The sights here are sometimes marvelous, like the big moment when a whale
pops out of the ocean and lands right at the door of a pirate tavern or the scenes of the misfit band's ship (It's only a model) set to sail on the high seas with the aid of computer animation.
We made a stop at BIG4 Phillip Island Caravan Park to go and see the Penguin Parade: hundreds of Little Penguins coming
out of the ocean at sundown.
The cores coming
out of the ocean floor indeed showed slow changes, and so did the ice core from Antarctica — but few understood then about how special Antarctica is, how insulated from the rest of the world its weather can be (that ring of westerlies and its vertical curtain of rising air at 60 ° S) and how its low rates of snowfall limit time resolution.
The Following villain has joined the cast of the NBC pilot The Curse of the Fuentes Women as a man who
walks out of the ocean to reinvigorate the lives of the four women of the title.
Ocean acidification will fry fish populations directly, too, though scientists aren't yet sure how to predict the effects on the stuff we
haul out of the ocean to eat; they do know that in acid waters, oysters and mussels will struggle to grow their shells, and that when the pH of human blood drops as much as the oceans» pH has over the past generation, it induces seizures, comas, and sudden death.
It was so nice to be able to walk
right out of the ocean, rinse off at the fresh water spray station and then either get in the pool or lay out on lounge chairs or just walk back in to your condo and change.
The higher temperature measured in the Knudsen layer and the few microns below it may not reduce the rate of energy flow
out of the ocean as Realclimate and other AGW proponents propose.
«And when we got in the bay... as I was getting off the snowmobile, I looked up to my left, and there was something weird sticking
out of the ocean on the ice.