Sentences with phrase «profound effects on global climate»

The Arctic melting is having profound effects on global climate, as there will be more heat - absorbing ocean instead of heat - reflecting ice there in the summer.

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A new study has found that turbulent mixing in the deep waters of the Southern Ocean, which has a profound effect on global ocean circulation and climate, varies with the strength of surface eddies — the ocean equivalent of storms in the atmosphere — and possibly also wind speeds.

And what we see is both how complex climate changes can be and how profound an effect changing patterns of ocean circulation can have on global climate states, if looked at on a geological time scale.»