Sentences with phrase «outgassing into»

When global temperatures increase, the oceans give up some of their CO2, outgassing it into the atmosphere and increasing atmospheric concentrations.

This carbon was then transformed into CO2 and released by outgassing into the atmosphere.

By breaking up petroleum into smaller droplets that dissolved faster in the deep ocean, the dispersants decreased the amounts of volatile toxic compounds that rose to the surface and outgassed into the air.

But Pepin and his colleagues realized that if another source of solar gas were available — say, one trapped in Earth's mantle from the planet's early days — it could bring the elements back into balance as it outgassed into the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

The carbon that was locked into this crust was essentially lost, tied up for the 60 million years or so that it took the minerals to get recycled back to the surface or outgassed through volcanoes.

Effectively, CO2 is absorbed into the ocean in polar regions and is outgassed via the tropics and other upwelling zones.

Melting permafrost outgasses CO2 and methane, and the decrease in sea ice allows oceanic CO2 to mix back into the atmosphere; taken together, these processes greatly amplify the effect of increased sunlight, driving a relatively rapid exodus from the ice age.

Under this scenario, most of the clathrate deposits in the arctic (both tundra and shallow continental shelf deposits) could be released into the atmosphere in a fairly short period of time (less than a century), implying a rate of outgassing that makes 100 times present estimated levels a vast underforecast.

Or would melting of most of the cryosphere (given this input of just enough warming to cause that) ensure that we go into a long term extreme warming hysteresis event, leading to perhaps hydrogen sulfide outgassing and massive extinction?

If there's an excess coming into atmosphere not accounted for by ocean outgassing, or known land / biosphere emissions, or fossil fuels, or boosted northern forest growth (and decay), or permafrost melt, then it's necessary to look for it.

Sea ice, and the cold conditions it sustains, serves to stabilize methane deposits on and near the shoreline, [40] preventing the clathrate breaking down and outgassing methane into the atmosphere, causing further warming.

Once water is lost, the reaction that turns carbon dioxide into limestone can no longer take place, so CO2 outgassing from volcanoes accumulates in the atmosphere instead of staying bound up in the rocks.

CO2 during the ice ages is a natural response of temperature (soda bottle outgassing), that fact doesn't predict anything if you artificially add extra CO2 into the atmosphere.

The likely candidates are outgassing from warming ocean waters...» Actually, more CO2 is being desolved into the ocean due the the sharply raised levels.

In general, climate change is inevitable: the Sun's output is not perfectly constant; continents rise and fall over long spans of time; and the composition of the atmosphere shifts as carbon dioxide is outgassed from the Earth's interior, and its carbon is slowly recycled into living bodies, and eventually into new rock.