Sentences with phrase «shallow ocean layers»

Since the industrial revolution, we have tripled the mercury content of shallow ocean layers, according to the letter published in the peer - review journal Nature on Thursday.

Water from the faucet represents heat entering the shallow ocean layer, water exiting the drain represents heat leaving the shallow oceans and entering the deep oceans, and the water level in the bathtub represents the heat in the shallow ocean layer.

Water from the faucet represents heat entering the shallow ocean layer.

The water level in the bathtub represents the heat in the shallow ocean layer (which is what we measure).

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When the newly multiplied bacteria died, they fell to the floor of those ocean shallows, stacking up layer by layer to decay and enrich the mud with phosphorus.

During field trips out to West Texas, he and Rice students noticed hundreds of ash layers in exposed rock that dated to the Cretaceous period when much of western North America lay beneath a shallow ocean.

Faster flow is more turbulent, and in this turbulence more heat is mixed into AABW from shallower, warmer ocean layers — thus warming the abyssal waters on their way to the Equator, affecting global climate change.

In the shallower Arctic Ocean most of those deposits are tucked underneath a thick layer of sediment, impeding their travel.

I would claim that the surface temperature — which is a comparatively easy thing to measure — is a relevant test of climate physics because a lot of the ocean response is indeed determined by the relatively shallow mixed layer.

In addition to the shallow La Niña — like patterns in the Pacific that were the previous focus, we found that the slowdown is mainly caused by heat transported to deeper layers in the Atlantic and the Southern oceans, initiated by a recurrent salinity anomaly in the subpolar North Atlantic.

Under the new slab - ocean approach, the LHF increase is weaker under warming, the Cu layer shallows (if the large - scale subsidence rate is kept fixed), and the inversion strengthens.

The dissipative friction force is a viscous friction between the surface mixed layer and the deeper ocean layers or the shallow continental shelf.

Mugwump, you talk about the «average diapycnal heat transfer of the ocean», but what Douglass» revised model actually requires is the heat transfer out of the upper mixed layer, which must (according to his ~ 5 month time scale) be very shallow.

It's important to point out that overall deep - ocean heating (0 - 2,000 meters) shows no sign of a slow down in recent years, though shallower layers (0 - 300 meters and 0 - 700 meters) do.

It doesn't even appear to be enough to raise the temperature of the shallow surface layer by more than a fraction of a degree to say nothing of imparting any significant warmth to the other 90 % of the volume of the global ocean below the thermocline (400 + meters deep).

This is still very early science, and we have some estimates of what may happen to those from modelling studies, from looking at the way in which the heating of the very upper layers of the Arctic Ocean is transferred down through the depth of the ocean - even in these relatively shallow Arctic shelf regions - and then into the sediments that would allow the methane hydrates to destabiOcean is transferred down through the depth of the ocean - even in these relatively shallow Arctic shelf regions - and then into the sediments that would allow the methane hydrates to destabiocean - even in these relatively shallow Arctic shelf regions - and then into the sediments that would allow the methane hydrates to destabilise.

What are telling observations against the hypothesis of a largely internally driven imbalance are, on the one hand, the fact the sea level variations are relentlessly positive, irrespective the phase of the PDO, and, on the second hand, the fact that the rate of warming over land is larger than it is over sea (and also that the shallow (0 - 700m) ocean layer never actually cools).

Callendar suggested that the top layer of the ocean, that interacts with the atmosphere, would easily become saturated with carbon dioxide and that would affect its ability to absorb more, because, he thought, the rate of mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters was likely to be very slow.

But let's address the question anyway - do we expect to have seen some obvious indication of heat being transferred from the shallow to deep ocean layers?