Sentences with phrase «role as a sink»

Future studies of the carbon system in the oceans should be designed to identify and quantitatively assess these feedback mechanisms to provide input to models that will determine the ocean's future role as a sink for anthropogenic CO2.

His reference to the oceans» role as a sink for CO2 and heat is significant in the present debate about the apparent slight slow - down in the pace of atmospheric warming and the likelihood that the heat is going into the oceans instead.

Not exact matches

In as much as I had a soft spot for Comrade Mugabe as he exited office, I SALUTED the ZANU PF, for assuming its SUPREMACIST role and not allowing the whims and caprices of a single individual and his «stranger» wife, to act in ways that were ominously deeply sinking the ZANU PF, ship.

Forests not only store carbon that will be emitted with deforestation, they also act as an important carbon sink, which have a key role in further buffering climate change.

Despite their role as potential sinks — or storehouses — of carbon, it is still unclear how different biophysical processes influence carbon dynamics in these ecosystems.

Lead author PhD student Adam Hejnowicz said: «Seagrass meadows could play a vital role in combating climate change as they are regarded as a net global sink for carbon.They have the capacity to bury significant deposits of organic carbon beneath the sediment, up to many metres thick in places and over millenary time scales.»

Accounting for biomass energy often ignores the critical role forests play as a sink for carbon dioxide that might otherwise accumulate in the atmosphere.

Deploying new sensors that drift with sometimes strong currents (allowing better measurement of marine snow than sensors placed on the ocean floor or tethered to the surface), the team sampled the flora and fauna and measured the amount of falling carbon material captured to assess the role of the ocean as a true carbon sink.

For Arrigo, who has extensively studied carbon cycles, an important implication of higher productivity in polynyas is for their role as carbon sinks.

Along the Gulf Coast, the authors say other factors, such as tidal effects and the ongoing subsidence, or sinking, of the land, can play a more important role.

Queenster Nartey counts bacterial colonies in a non-copper sink sample as part of research on copper's role in reducing infections.

She's just oozes star - quality, and despite her recent success in «adult» parts, Lawrence sinks her teeth into the role with as much gusto as any of her other more acclaimed performances.

We told you the other that that Jason Flemyng, best known for his collaborations with Matthew Vaughn and roles in such pics as X-Men: First Class and Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, recently sank his teeth into directing with vampire thriller Eat Local.

Lily James («Downton Abbey») gives a star - making performance opposite the excellent Cate Blanchett, who really sinks her teeth into the role of the evil Stepmother (Blanchett receives top - billing but doesn't have as much screen time as you might expect).

The actors, Neeson included, feel more sunken into their roles than usual for Collet - Serra players, who are often skillful but very movie - ish, befitting their frequent status as a roll call of potential suspects.

Since first making waves as corrupt cop Shane Vendrell on The Shield, Walton Goggins has added a number of remarkably complex roles to his resume, a list that reveals he's a rare actor with an unnatural ability to sink his teeth into nearly any character and completely own it, mold it and morph it into something worthy of respect and awe, even if the character he's portraying isn't necessarily worthy of admiration.

There's also Bradley Cooper, playing his now - trademark unctuous sleaze as a legendary arms dealer on a terrorist watch list, and the ridiculously charming Ana de Armas, staking a claim as the Next Big Thing despite a thankless role as the long - suffering wife who finds a bundle of money taped to the bottom of a sink.

It is also the kind of star vehicle you might have seen the likes of William Holden, Paul Newman or Gene Hackman doing in their prime, and as I say in my video review above Hamm is the perfect fit, finding a role he can really sink into and make credible.

Dragon's Crown may look like a typical beat -»em - up on the surface, but once you sink your teeth into its character customization, equipment system, and wealth of side quests, it reveals itself as an action role - playing game trapped in the shell of a side - scrolling brawler.

Not only does Kubrick have Sellers sink into several different roles (even though he's technically Clare Quilty in disguise), but many claim his ruse as school shrink Dr. Zempf marks the origin of the title character of Dr. Strangelove.

Let that sink in for a bit as she's had some fantastic roles over her career, culminating in four previous nominations for Boogie Nights, The End of the Affair, The Hours, and Far From Heaven (Nights and Heaven saw her in Supporting).

Bullock's role as white mother who takes in a poor black teen and helps propel him to success contains just the right cuts of juicy dramatic meat that the Academy loves to sink their teeth into.

Reynolds clearly relishes the cracked - personality role, but it's harder to see what his A-list female co-stars (Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick) are getting out of this, with only Jacki Weaver being given much meat into which to sink her teeth as Jerry's shrink.

McAdams is probably the standout as she goes against type from her Mean Girls and The Notebook roles, but everyone sinks their teeth into their characters» bleak lives and hard - boiled dialogue.

In addition to the important role the MI industry plays in the housing finance system, Sinks proposed specific principles for housing finance reform and lessons that should be applied to all market participants, as well as recommendations to increase the role of private capital in the housing finance system to further protect taxpayers and the government.

Overall, the message that something as simple as an ID tag can play an important role should a pet go missing is beginning to sink into the public consciousness.

Many also combine role playing with different types of adventure, such as surviving on a sinking island or digging through caves or being lost in a desert.

EG: New measurements show widespread forest loss has reversed the role of tropics as a carbon sink

They are a cornerstone of ocean ecosystems and play a significant role, as they die and sink, in taking carbon out of circulation and locking it away in rock.

The role of the world's forests as a «sink» for atmospheric carbon dioxide is the subject of active debate.

Peatlands like bogs and fens have been in the spotlight for some time for their role in climate change, both as carbon sinks and as methane sources.

«In addition to providing essential ecosystem services, including water regulation across the landscape and habitat for unique biodiversity, peatlands are globally important for their prominent role as a carbon pool and sink,» says Kristell Hergoualc» h, a CIFOR scientist, and contributor to the special issue and IUFRO session.

Their role in the carbon cycle is quite different from that of trees and other land plants, which actually absorb CO2 and serve as a storehouse, or «sink», of carbon.

«Cutting trees for fuel is antithetical to the important role that forests play as a sink for CO2 that might otherwise accumulate in the atmosphere,» Schlesinger writes in an article published yesterday in the journal Science, adding later that carbon neutrality «is only achieved» if harvested forests are allowed to regrow more biomass than was lost.

Carbon and Other Biochemical Cycles: On the headline statement in this section, Brazil insisted on nuancing the relative contribution of land - use change to the increase of CO2 concentrations, and including reference to the role of forests as sinks, with Venezuela proposing to refer to the net balance between emissions and carbon capture by land systems.

For further reading on the research on the role of forests as carbon sinks and emerging research, I recommend The hunt for the world's missing carbon by Gabriel Popkin in Nature News.

A further concern is that temperature increases could diminish the ocean's vital role as a carbon sink.

Many factors — like the thermohaline circulation, which reverses direction at the poles as warm salty water releases heat into the air and sinks down to the bottom — are heavily influenced by the ocean's salinity, and thus, the movement of freshwater into and around the Arctic plays an important role in shaping both regional and global climate.

Healthy forests play a key role in global ecosystems as they contain much of the terrestrial biodiversity on the planet and act as a net sink for capturing atmospheric carbon.

As the dominant reservoir for heat, the oceans are critical for measuring the radiation imbalance of the planet and the surface layer of the oceans plays the role of thermostat and heat source / sink for the lower atmosphere.

The changing temperature and chemistry of the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea are likely changing their role in global ocean circulation and as carbon sinks for atmospheric CO2 respectively, although the importance of these changes in the global carbon budget remains unresolved.

All the other arguments on the lack of any other credible source for the CO2 and on the role of the oceans as a sink and not a source remain valid.

This current plays a crucial role linking the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific oceans, while also acting as one of the great heat and carbon sinks for the atmosphere.

Mangrove forests play key ecological roles, including sustaining fish populations and other wildlife, preventing erosion along coastlines, and acting as an overall carbon sink.

Several people have expressed interest here in learning more about the carbon cycle, the role of the ocean as a sink for anthropogenic CO2, etc..

There is uncertainty about degree of warming, about the role of ocean currents as a «sink hole» for CO2 resorption from the atmosphere.

Because these lands play such a vital role as carbon sinks, it's no surprise that their destruction is partly responsible for the emissions from land use changes that add up to nearly 18 percent of the total global warming effect.

Restoring degraded forests has come to be recognized as perhaps just as critical to climate efforts as stopping deforestation, because of how reforestation efforts can enhance forests» role as a carbon sink.

Type - C devices are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to not support proprietary charging methods that modify Vbus voltage beyond default levels, or alter sink / source roles as such may result in interoperability issues with the chargers or devices that support the standard USB Power Delivery methods.

Google goes on to strongly recommend manufacturers to not support proprietary charging methods that stray from default voltage controls or switch sink / source roles as to render chargers not interoperable between devices.