Sentences with phrase «predict ocean circulation»

The ocean suface salinity is a fundamental parameter to better understand and predict ocean circulation, water cycle, climate and their...

The ocean suface salinity is a fundamental parameter to better understand and predict ocean circulation, water cycle, climate and their interactions.

Information is transmitted to a satellite when the animals surface to breathe and is used to create computer models that will better predict ocean circulation patterns.

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The findings could help predict how ocean circulation will affect atmospheric CO2 levels in future, says Will Howard of the University of Tasmania, Australia.

They predicted that the ice age had slowed ocean circulation, trapping CO2 deep within it, and that warmer temperatures reversed this process.

Study co-author Katy Sheen, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, says: «These findings will help us to understand the processes that drive the ocean circulation and mixing so that we can better predict how our Earth system will respond to the increased levels of carbon dioxide that we have released into the atmosphere.&rOcean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, says: «These findings will help us to understand the processes that drive the ocean circulation and mixing so that we can better predict how our Earth system will respond to the increased levels of carbon dioxide that we have released into the atmosphere.&rocean circulation and mixing so that we can better predict how our Earth system will respond to the increased levels of carbon dioxide that we have released into the atmosphere.»

«People who try to predict the circulation of ocean currents and the atmosphere have to know how energies mix — in this case, the heat energy and heat flux,» Hou said.

The sparse proxy data failed to predict modern large - scale ocean circulation patterns.

This is followed by the authors» conclusion that while simple models (which consider only carbon chemistry) predict that the ocean will take up 70 - 80 % of the carbon dioxide we emit, the long - equilibrium will quite possibly be considerably higher than those models would suggest — given the changes to ocean circulation.

In its discussion of specific examples, such as a catastrophic change in ocean circulation patterns, the report emphasizes predicted risks that the FAR concluded were minimal through the rest of the century.

To test how well a climate model predicts possible changes in ocean circulation due to climate change, GISS scientists have simulated the effects of a massive flood of fresh water some 8000 years ago.

If human - caused warming continues to alter these complex circulation patterns, the study's models predict more rain in the eastern tropical regions of the Indian Ocean and drought in the western equatorial Indian Ocean region.

They concluded, «ocean pH does not simply reflect atmospheric CO2 trends but rather that circulation / biogeochemical changes account for > 90 % of pH variability in the Sargasso Sea and more variability in the last century than would be predicted from anthropogenic uptake of CO2 alone.»

With regard to his «other hypotheses, predict the opposite» he may be referring to increased albedo due to the expectation that increased global warming increases snowfall in the northern and southern latitudes; or the shutdown of the thermohaline circulation of the ocean.

In short there are difficult to predict volcano eruptions, varying ocean circulation, clouds and more clouds, a varying sun (both TSI and larger frequency deltas), changing vegetation albedo, atmospheric albedo including 03, earth's position and orientation and more including cosmic rays.

Jones et al. (2003) investigated the changes in temperature over the past 4 decades at both the near surface (troposphere) and stratosphere layers, and compare them to changes predicted by a coupled atmosphere / ocean general circulation model, HadCM3.

The chemistry - climate models used for the 2006 Ozone Assessment, predict that the Antarctic ozone hole will achieve full recovery in the second half of this century, and that this may have profound impacts on the surface winds and, likely, on other aspects of the Earth's climate, including surface temperatures, locations of storm tracks, extent of dry zones, amount of sea ice, and ocean circulation.

Sheth, S., 1999: Ocean Circulation Changes and Greenhouse Warming Predicted by Coupled GCMs.

Observe the stricking difference in the level of alarmism between the politicians and the quasi-humility of the climate modellers describing the uncertainties in predicting the natural multi-decadal phenomenon which are greatly influenced by ocean circulation.