Then the team's computer simulations showed that eddies could trigger changes in sea floor currents matching the patterns measured by the instruments, with the best correlation occurring when the effects on deep -
sea currents happened 8 days after the eddy passed overhead.
Not exact matches
Current occurrences, if still
happen, of the critically endangered North Pacific right whales, and historically abundant Steller's
sea lions in these areas are unknown.
What
happens to ocean
currents once the
sea ice is gone?
I was wondering if anyone
happens to have the
current sea ice extent anomaly handy?
So, in actuality, for
current conditions and a quite plausible worst - case hurricane situation, one could have much more inundation of NY right now than the movie was showing for what could
happen over this century or longer as a result of
sea level rise.
And if you
happen to live in Bangladesh or other low lying regions, even the
current rate [of
sea level rise] is important.»
Finally, given the measured a increase in advection of energy to the Arctic via ocean
currents, the increase in energy of the oceans should be expected to have the exact effect we are seeing with a rapidly declining Arctic
Sea ice volume, with a great deal of this
happening from ice being melted from underneath.
The lead paper in last week's issue of Science, by Aradhna Tripati et al, demonstrated that it had been 15 million years since carbon concentrations were this high — and that when it
happened last the
seas rose a hundred feet above their
current level.