Sentences with phrase «remote ocean regions»

However, users should be aware that the input data, and thus the results, are not of equal quality at all locations (e.g., over remote ocean regions) due to the nonuniform distribution of observations used in the assimilation process.

Not exact matches

Royal Dutch Shell abandoned an oil exploration program in the Arctic Ocean in 2015 amid concerns that lower global oil prices made drilling in the remote region a risky investment.

«This research is helping us better understand the interactions between the ice sheet and the ocean in this remote region on Earth.»

Unlike most regions of the global ocean which do not contain sufficient nitrogen or phosphorus for sustained phytoplankton growth, diatoms in the remote waters of McMurdo Sound were starving from lack of iron and deficiency of vitamin B12.

While it is often occurring in remote regions, ongoing change with the cryosphere has impacts on people all around the world: sea level rise affects coastlines globally, billions of people rely on water from snowpack, and the diminishing sea ice that covers the Arctic Ocean plays a significant role in Earth's climate and weather patterns.

The required additional fossil fuels will involve exploitation of tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking for oil and gas, coal mining, drilling in the Arctic, Amazon, deep ocean, and other remote regions, and possibly exploitation of methane hydrates.

Two of the most rugged, remote and uncrowded wine regions in California stretch from the crashing surf of the Pacific Ocean in Mendocino to the high desert - like volcanic peak Mount...

In fact if that doesn't hold true prior to the satellite era then you can kiss the instrumental record prior to 1950 goodbye because its coverage isn't anywhere near global and is almost completely absent for undeveloped countries, remote regions, and over the ocean.

This includes maintaining Argo, the main system for monitoring ocean heat content, and the development of Deep Argo to monitor the lower half of the ocean; the use of ship - based subsurface ocean temperature monitoring programs; advancements in robotic technologies such as autonomous underwater vehicles to monitor waters adjacent to land (like islands or coastal regions); and further development of real - or near - real - time deep ocean remote sensing methods.

«We assessed contributions to conditions near the UK from various possible remote forcing regions, using sets of experiments with state - of - the - art atmosphere / ocean models.

The required additional fossil fuels will involve exploitation of tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking for oil and gas, coal mining, drilling in the Arctic, Amazon, deep ocean, and other remote regions, and possibly exploitation of methane hydrates.

The model diversity (right side of Fig. 3) is smallest over and downwind of continental regions, with ratios below 1 over most continental areas and above 1 over the remote oceans.

The cooling of the Arctic since 1950 - 60 has been most marked in the very same regions which experienced the strongest warming in the earlier decades of the 20thC, namely the central Arctic and northernmost parts of the two great continents remote from the world's oceans, but also in the Norwegian - East Greenland Sea....

Lake and ocean sediment profiles, peat bogs, and ice — in both remote and industrialized regions — suggest that natural background levels of mercury have increased during the past 150 years (1).

In Remote Sensing of the Ocean, Sea Ice, and Large Water Regions 2005, 19 Sep. 2005, Bruges, Belgium, Proc.

In Remote Sensing of the Ocean, Sea Ice, and Large Water Regions 2006, 11 Sep. 2006, Stockholm, Proc.