Sentences with phrase «scale ocean flow»

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«Our results conclusively show that ocean flows at small scales, below 10 kilometers, contain significant energy fluctuations to control the initial spread of pollutant clouds,» said UM Rosenstiel School Professor and CARTHE Director Tamay Özgökmen.

Oceanographers commonly calculate large scale surface ocean circulation from satellite sea level information using a concept called «geostrophy,» which describes the relationship between oceanic surface flows and sea level gradient.

At the Paris meeting, nearly 2,000 participants, from countries on all continents and at all levels of development, flowed through dozens of sessions examining an array of policies and actions at all scales that could limit our influence on the atmosphere and oceans and limit risks that changes in the climate will derail human progress.

Instead of flowing down the gradient, large scale motions in the atmosphere and ocean tend to occur perpendicular to the pressure gradient.

The problem for that idea is that even if it is possible the reduced energy flow from ocean to air merely mimics on a miniscule scale what happens naturally when a negative ocean cycle reduces the flow of energy from ocean to air.

The fractal scaling behavior in the power spectra of 1 / f fluctuations abounds in astrophysical phenomena (Press 1978:103): the Gutenberg - Richter law of earthquakes (Scholz 1991:41), volcanic activity (Scholz 1991:41), the flow rate of the Nile (Mandelbrot & Wallis 1969:321), ocean currents (Taft & Hickery 1974:403) and daily average air humidity fluctuations (Vattay & Harnos 1993, unpublished).

Gyre - Basin - scale ocean horizontal circulation pattern with slow flow circulating around the ocean basin, closed by a strong and narrow (100 - 200 km wide) boundary current on the western side.

These ocean upwelling conditions occur beneath a complementary downwelling branch of the atmosphere's Hadley circulation — a planetary - scale flow pattern in both hemispheres that takes humid air ascending at low latitudes, heats and desiccates it in deep precipitating tropical clouds, and then sinks it at midlatitudes, where it is considerably warmer and drier than it was.