Sentences with phrase «seawater temperature from»

Environmental variables estimated over larger spatial and temporal scales included the upwelling index (UI) for 48 ° N, 125 ° W (http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov), an indicator of upwelling strength based on wind stress measurements, as well as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO, http://jisao.washington.edu/pdo/PDO.latest), a composite indicator of ocean temperature anomalies [33], seawater temperature from Buoy 46041 ∼ 50 km to the southwest from Tatoosh (www.ndbc.noaa.gov), and remote sensing of chl a (SeaWiFS, AquaModis).

The difference in seawater temperature from the long - term average is shown here as the event fizzled during May 2016.

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An increasingly common feature of reefs worldwide, it is brought on by thermal stress resulting from seawater temperature anomalies associated with climate change.

Despite their importance, corals face a range of grave risks today, from bleaching triggered by increasing seawater temperatures, to sediment loads caused by terrestrial erosion from land development, to predation by crown - of - thorns starfish.

Data from other paleoclimatic research suggest that cyclical changes in the tilt of the earth's axis and seawater temperatures drove these wet conditions in the South American tropics.

The increase could be due to a combination of stronger winds spreading out the sea ice and fresh water from melting ice on land diluting seawater so it freezes at higher temperatures.

Microbial communities in seawater from an Arctic and a temperate Norwegian fjord and their potentials for biodegradation of chemically dispersed oil at low seawater temperatures — Deni Ribicic — Marine Pollution Bulletin

«The other carbon dioxide problem», «the evil twin of global warming», or part of a «deadly trio», together with increasing temperatures and loss of oxygen: Many names have been coined to describe the problem of ocean acidification — a change in the ocean chemistry that occurs when carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere dissolves in seawater.

Sea level rise has two primary components: the expansion in volume of seawater with increased temperature and the addition of water in ocean basins from the melting of land - locked ice, including Antarctica and Greenland.

Rising seawater temperatures and increased nutrient concentrations could lead to a decline of the bladder wrack Fucus vesiculosus in the Baltic Sea in the future, according to experiments conducted by marine scientists from Kiel and Rostock.

Beck interpretes the latter as the direct influence of seawater temperatures, but the measurements near the floating ice border were just average, not the lowest... Modern measurements give less than 10 ppmv difference over the seas from the coldest oceans to the tropics, including a repeat of the trips that Buch made.

The open cycle consists of the following steps: (i) flash evaporation of a fraction of the warm seawater by reduction of pressure below the saturation value corresponding to its temperature (ii) expansion of the vapor through a turbine to generate power; (iii) heat transfer to the cold seawater thermal sink resulting in condensation of the working fluid; and (iv) compression of the non-condensable gases (air released from the seawater streams at the low operating pressure) to pressures required to discharge them from the system.

temperature: 1,000 m depth temperature = 5C thermal conductivity of seawater 0.58 W / mK ocean - air interface = 17.000 C 1.441 mm depth temperature = 17.400 C (the warmest spot in the ocean depth though the «few metres» of depth below it is only a miniscule bit colder, all warmed by Sun SWR) this top 1.441 mm depth is the «skin» and «sub-skin» 100m depth temperature certain in range 16.090 C to 17.400 C but virtually certain > 17C because of mixing top ~ 90m temperature gradient of top 1.441 mm of ocean is 277.6 Celsius / metre By conductivity, temperature gradient pushes 161.00 w / m ** 2 up from 1.441 mm depth to ocean - air interface which precisely removes the Sun's 161 w / m ** 2 going into the top few metres depth and leads to no ocean warming.

Almost invariably, seawater temperature was taken from a thermometer set into the main inlet providing cooling water to the condensers used to condense feed water used in the ships» boilers.

All other environmental variables tested, including the UI (from April to September only), the PDO, silicate, nitrate and the seawater temperature at Tatoosh, were not associated with shell δ13C (Table 2).

When temperatures began warming up, freshwater from melting ice that flowed into the Nordic Seas would have diluted salty seawater near the surface.

The rest of the 100 + ppmv (80 ppmv since the measurements at the South Pole started) is NOT from the seawater temperature increase.

Survey research partner Dr Simon Boxall, of the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK, says the temperature change indicates that melting Arctic sea ice is quickly circulating into the ocean's depths and being replaced by warmer seawater from below.

«ARCTIC: Data finds seawater temperature decrease that spells trouble Data from the Catlin Arctic Survey 2011, collected during an eight - week expedition from March to May, indicates the temperature of Arctic seawater below 200 metres depth has decreased by a «surprising» one degree Celsius compared to previous observations.

Radiation from a molecule at -80 C therefore can not provide enough energy in the form of photons, to warm molecules (by boosting electrons into higher, more energetic orbits) at -4 C or above (seawater temperatures).