Sentences with phrase «over huge ocean»

Even though the temperature increases are small, because they are spread over huge ocean basins in layers a few kilometers thick, they quickly add up.

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, however, has oceans of cash available — not just because it has over $ 20 billion in cash on its books, but because its AWS hosted - computing platform for corporate customers spins off huge amounts of money every quarter.

Floating turbines hold huge promise for capturing wind energy over Earth's oceans.

Over the last few centuries, the ocean has absorbed huge amounts of the carbon dioxide spewed into the atmosphere by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels.

Professor McGeehan, Director of the Institute of Biological and Biomedical Sciences in the School of Biological Sciences at Portsmouth, said: «Few could have predicted that since plastics became popular in the 1960s huge plastic waste patches would be found floating in oceans, or washed up on once pristine beaches all over the world.

Because the vast plateau at such altitudes absorbs a huge amount of solar radiation, the atmospheric layer above it in summer is much warmer than air at similar elevations over lower land or the oceans.

Each year, a huge amount of water evaporates from the ocean, then falls over land as rain or snow, and returns to the ocean through runoff and river flows.

I've been blogging for just over a year now and sometimes do feel like a tiny fish in a huge ocean but you're right, there is space for everyone and so long as I enjoy doing it I plan to continue!

Build over three split levels and absolute ocean front, this house has huge open...

However, on the North coast of the island, you'll find the dramatically huge and grand Na Pali coastline, a fantastic formation of towering cliffs looming over the ocean that is truly a wonder to see.

Over the years, the pier has been heavily damaged by the sea and storms, but it once stretched quite a distance into the ocean at the end of which a tugboat would be waiting to tow the heavy bags of sugar on a barge to the huge Matson ships waiting at sea.

There is a huge terrace with views across the lotus ponds, over the pool and out to the ocean.

The infinity pool looks out over the ocean and is complemented by an outdoor bar with refrigerator, sink and BBQ grill and a huge partially covered terrace with patio furniture for lounging, reading and dining.

The high characteristic roof construction and the huge window frame with a view over the park / through to the ocean determine the atmosphere of the Top Room (42 m2).

A 7 - bedroomed luxury villa offering panoramic views over rice fields and the Indian ocean, with 25 - metre swimming pool, sauna, huge garden and professional staff team including chef.

Sept 24 Awoke in G - Land this morning to a very solid rumble, a quick walk down the front revealed 8 - 10ft walls of power grinding their way along the whole bay.At times some sets were quite a lot bigger than that, pretty awesome sight to see.An angry ocean probably being a good description with huge amounts of water sweeping down the line.Later in the afternoon a few ventured out to sample some juice.Some nice waves but most were unridden, some of the regular visitors over the years had the better wave selection and skillfully ridden.But still pretty wild.

The villa has a huge deck with a pool that hangs over the Indian Ocean.

Sunlight sparkling on the water, magnificent sandy beaches, views that stretch forever over Pumicestone Passage to Bribie Island and beyond, the blues of the Pacific Ocean in one direction, and the majesty of the Glasshouse Mountains in another.Luxury to do as you please; an early morning stroll along the beach, or a lazy afternoon by the huge Centrepoint swimming and wading pools.

Set on stilts over the Indian Ocean, these fabulous villas are perfect for honeymooners and offer elegant living with a glass - floored living room (sofa, TV, dining area), huge open - plan bedroom, a 22 sqm infinity swimming pool on the deck, outdoor deck with steps into the lagoon, indoor bathroom with T.V, walk - in closet, free - standing Jacuzzi bathtub, two sinks, separate shower and toiletries by Bulgari.

When you're riding over huge swells of ocean waves you have to make decisions about when to carve through a trough or jump a crest — all while battling the other riders for the best line.»

Over 60 works by Marc Quinn will be shown both inside and outside the museum including new works such as the The Origin of the World (Cassis madagascariensis) Indian Ocean, 310, a huge 3 metre bronze shell, new underwater paintings from the series The Zone and the unveiling of the latest version of Marc Quinn's Self sculptures, Self 2011.

It seems that those who fear AGW (or at least some of them) do admit that it is not realistic to expect a planetary atmosphere such as ours to warm up oceans of water over the timescale required by AGW theory because of the huge volume and density of that water and thus the heat storage differentials.

But as about 150 GtC as CO2 over the seasons is exchanged between atmosphere and biosphere / oceans, a huge part (near 20 %) of the «human» CO2 is replaced by «natural» CO2 each year, thus removing a part of the human d13C fingerprint.

«There is a huge discrepancy between the data and the forecasts that is especially big over the oceans.»

Overall of course, we do see higher temperature anomalies over land on a historical basis, owing to the huge modulation role that the ocean plays in the storage of excess energy and the higher humidity levels over the ocean.

And remember, the satellite data are one small part of a vast amount of data that overwhelmingly show our planet is warming up: retreating glaciers, huge amounts of ice melting at both poles, the «death spiral» of arctic ice every year at the summer minimum over time, earlier annual starts of warm weather and later starts of cold weather, warming oceans, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, more extreme weather, changing weather patterns overall, earlier snow melts, and lower snow cover in the spring...

Over the generally - recognised ARGO period (2004/2005 to present) spatial variation in subsurface ocean temperature change has been huge, as evidenced by altimeter SLR trend maps.

Of course it's that huge heat capacity that lets the oceans hold the heat, but the biggest temperature changes are over land.

So unless there is a permanent, drastic, progressive and one - way alteration in the chemical makeup of the oceans over geological epochs (which would entail the massive evolution of hydrogen gas and the production of oxygen, chlorine or hydrogen peroxide) or a similarly huge increase in its potential energy (levitating it off the ocean floor), the energy involved will still have to be dissipated as heat (there's nowhere else for it to go, unless you get all science - fictiony and assume it vanishes into hyperspace or turns into neutrinos or something).

The basic point and the one relevant to climate change, is still relevant — oceans still have an enormous moderating effect on temperature over time (though if there is a huge increase or decrease in re radiated atmospheric heat it is going to then affect the oceans initially).

Seasonal exchanges are huge: about 20 % of all CO2 in the atmosphere is exchanged between atmosphere and other reservoirs over the seasons, but as the exchanges with oceans and vegetation are countercurrent with temperature (vegetation in the NH dominates), the net result is only some 2 % change in the atmosphere over the seasons which is visible in the Mauna Loa curve.

The break - up of ice shelves can also leave huge ice cliffs 1,000 m high towering over the ocean, which then collapse under their own weight, pushing up sea level even further.

«There is a huge debate in climate science over the relationship between global warming and ocean temperatures.

The oceans have a vertical temperature profile, they have accumulated huge amounts of energy over the last half - century of measurements, that translates into different amounts of warming over the vertical ocean profile.

That is obvious because over the past 50 years, the oceans appear to have gained 20 something raised to the 22nd power worth of Joules + / - 14.6 something raised to the 22nd power Joules, which is also assumed to be a huge number within a short time frame though we are not particularly sure what time frame is relevant, even though the impact of that 20 something raised to the 22nd power Joules produced roughly 0.09 C + / - 0.045 C increase in the mean value of the upper 2000 meters of the roughly 3600 meter deep oceans over the past 50 something years based on an imbalance estimate of 0.6Wm - 2 + / -0.4 which replaces the previous 0.9 + / - 0.15 Wm - 2 estimate which had a 95 % confidence level.

RealClimate is wonderful, and an excellent source of reliable information.As I've said before, methane is an extremely dangerous component to global warming.Comment # 20 is correct.There is a sharp melting point to frozen methane.A huge increase in the release of methane could happen within the next 50 years.At what point in the Earth's temperature rise and the rise of co2 would a huge methane melt occur?No one has answered that definitive issue.If I ask you all at what point would huge amounts of extra methane start melting, i.e at what temperature rise of the ocean near the Artic methane ice deposits would the methane melt, or at what point in the rise of co2 concentrations in the atmosphere would the methane melt, I believe that no one could currently tell me the actual answer as to where the sharp melting point exists.Of course, once that tipping point has been reached, and billions of tons of methane outgass from what had been locked stores of methane, locked away for an eternity, it is exactly the same as the burning of stored fossil fuels which have been stored for an eternity as well.And even though methane does not have as long a life as co2, while it is around in the air it can cause other tipping points, i.e. permafrost melting, to arrive much sooner.I will reiterate what I've said before on this and other sites.Methane is a hugely underreported, underestimated risk.How about RealClimate attempts to model exactly what would happen to other tipping points, such as the melting permafrost, if indeed a huge increase in the melting of the methal hydrate ice WERE to occur within the next 50 years.My amateur guess is that the huge, albeit temporary, increase in methane over even three or four decades might push other relevent tipping points to arrive much, much, sooner than they normally would, thereby vastly incresing negative feedback mechanisms.We KNOW that quick, huge, changes occured in the Earth's climate in the past.See other relevent posts in the past from Realclimate.Climate often does not change slowly, but undergoes huge, quick, changes periodically, due to negative feedbacks accumulating, and tipping the climate to a quick change.Why should the danger from huge potential methane releases be vievwed with any less trepidation?