Sentences with phrase «sea warming»

As seas warm and offer more heat energy, there has also been a global increase in the observed intensity of the strongest storms over recent decades.

The study focused on how the biodiversity and biological characteristics of fish communities changed in the marine reserve following a sustained period of sea warming in comparison to nearby sites open to fishing.

The researchers found a subtle error that, when fixed, shows that the rate at which seas warmed and rose between 1961 and 2003 was about 50 percent greater than previous estimates.

Instead they point out that there have been regular periods of sea warming and cooling over recent decades without our involvement.

I've recently completed a pretty serious blog post dealing with climate change, with reference especially to the new NASA report on the lack of deep sea warming discussed by Laden, which as I see it, could make a huge difference to the debate.

When the Baltic Sea warms in Summer and much carbon dioxide dissolves in the sea water, the algae thrive especially well.

b) Lowell Stott, Axel Timmermann, Robert Thunell: Southern hemisphere and deep - sea warming led deglacial atmospheric CO2 rise and tropical warming, Science, (19 October 2007) Vol.

«Even accounting for the uncertainties of the age of CO2, the deep sea warmed substantially before the CO2 began to rise,» Stott says.

The waters of the Adriatic sea warm up to a most pleasing temperature around the 20s which is perfect for those who love swimming in the sea.

Nestled on the south west coast of Mallorca 5 km from Magaluf, Santa Ponsa boasts beautiful beaches and azure seas warm enough to swim and play in all day long.

From the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Two recent papers, one is in Earth - Science Reviews and the other is in Chinese Science Bulletin, have studied key chemical contents in micro-drilled giant clams shells and coral samples to demonstrate that in the South China Sea the warm period of the Middle Ages was warmer than the present.

Over 1,500 marine species have been collected near the islands over the lat century, but the fastest sea warming in the Southern hemisphere may threaten this biodiversity hot - spot.

I added an extra section on Watanabe's results to a blog post I had written on a proportional land / sea warming model.

They found that, as seas warmed at the end of the last ice age, Pine Island Glacier retreated to a point where its grounding line — the point where it enters the ocean and starts to float — was perched precariously at the end of a slope.

According to his models, if the sea warms to predicted levels, the most intense hurricanes will be 40 to 50 percent more severe than the most intense hurricanes of the past 50 years.

«The amount of solar energy increased at the same time as this deep - sea warming,» he says.

«As the seas warm because of our effect on the climate, bleaching events in the Great Barrier Reef and other areas within the Coral Sea are likely to become more frequent and more devastating,» the team of Australian university scientists wrote Thursday in The Conversation, announcing the results of the analysis.

If the seas warmed and there wasn't enough ice, then that affected the levels of krill in the southern ocean, and therefore reduced the available prey.

As the seas warm and the sea level rises, it accelerates the process of ice shearing off from the ice shelf and melting — which in turn causes the sea level to rise even more.

«With the exception of the South Pacific Ocean, all tropical cyclone basins show increases in the lifetime - maximum wind speeds of the strongest storms... Our results are qualitatively consistent with the hypothesis that as the seas warm, the ocean has more energy to convert to tropical cyclone wind.»

The workings of carbon dioxide vents are still largely unknown, but the type of deep - sea warming that could destabilize CO2 hydrates isn't what most experts think will happen with future climate change, he says.

They told of a horrific early history, the seas warmed so much, carrying heat to the sea floor, releasing massive numbers of gas bubbles, which rose into the air and heated the Earth to a Hellish state.