Sentences with phrase «show warmer seas»

While theoretical and model experiments show warmer seas drive more intense storms in the future, the total number isn't expected to increase.

Not exact matches

Evidence from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows that global sea levels in the last two decades are rising dramatically as surface temperatures warm oceans and...

But new models show that at the current rates of greenhouse gas emissions, warming seas will push these foraging grounds much farther south.

The findings were not a total surprise, with future projections showing that even with moderate climate warming, air temperatures over the higher altitudes increase even more than at sea level, and that, on average, fewer winter storm systems will impact the state.

Changes in three important quantities — global temperature, sea level and snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere — all show evidence of warming, although the details vary.

The finding surprised the University of Arizona - led research team, because the sparse instrumental records for sea surface temperature for that part of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean did not show warming.

Dr Svetlana Jevrejeva from the NOC, who is the lead author on this paper, said «Coastal cities and vulnerable tropical coastal ecosystems will have very little time to adapt to the fast sea level rise these predictions show, in scenarios with global warming above two degree.

«Fossil coral reefs show sea level rose in bursts during last warming: Reefs near Texas endured punctuated bursts of sea - level rise before drowning.»

The first predications of coastal sea level with warming of two degrees by 2040 show an average rate of increase three times higher than the 20th century rate of sea level rise.

Scientific observations show that in the Arctic, warming temperatures have led to a 75 % loss in sea ice volume since the 1980s, and recent reports suggest the Arctic Ocean will be nearly free of summer sea ice by 2050, said Sullivan.

At the same time, the El Niño event brought warmer sea - surface temperatures, which have been shown to correlate with outbreaks of mosquito - transmitted diseases.

The geologic record shows that the differences in ice cover, sea level and precipitation as well as in plant and animal populations were quite dramatic between the ice ages and the warm interglacials.

«But the deeper ocean shows no slowing in warming, and sea levels continue to rise — which we believe is still mostly down to thermal expansion,» says Rintoul.

They showed that when these cells experience warmer temperatures and get more nutrients they can double or triple their cell division rates, allowing them to potentially bloom into a large population fairly quickly at sea.

The visualization shows how the 1997 event started from colder - than - average sea surface temperatures — but the 2015 event started with warmer - than - average temperatures not only in the Pacific but also in in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

The study also showed that 4,000 years later — so, 125,000 years ago — sea surface temperatures had warmed up to nearly match today's readings.

A March study shows that one large swath of the ice sheet sits on beds as deep as 8,000 feet below sea level and is connected to warming ocean currents.

Records of sea surface temperature from oceanic sediment cores, for example, show that the magnitude of warming following several previous glaciations are well - correlated (www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/recons.html).

When the AMO is in its positive phase and the sea surface temperatures are warmer, the study has shown that the main effect in winter is to promote the negative phase of the NAO which leads to «blocking» episodes over the North Atlantic sector, allowing cold weather systems to exist over the eastern US and Europe.

Sure enough, the fossil record shows that warm - blooded mammals and birds tended to enter the sea in temperate regions.

It shows that changes in Earth's climate and sea level are closely linked, with only small amounts of warming needed to have a significant effect on seal levels.

The report also shows that warmer seas have resulted in a significant loss of ice in the Arctic region.

Complementary analyses of the surface mass balance of Greenland (Tedesco et al, 2011) also show that 2010 was a record year for melt area extent... Extrapolating these melt rates forward to 2050, «the cumulative loss could raise sea level by 15 cm by 2050 ″ for a total of 32 cm (adding in 8 cm from glacial ice caps and 9 cm from thermal expansion)- a number very close to the best estimate of Vermeer & Rahmstorf (2009), derived by linking the observed rate of sea level rise to the observed warming.

The results, presented here at the AAAS annual meeting on 14 February, showed that when the sea surface warmed off the coast of Peru in 1997 - 98, during El Niño, there was a marked increase in rates of cholera infection in Lima and nearby cities.

A new modeling study to be published in the Journal of Climate shows that stronger polar winds lead to an increase in Antarctic sea ice, even in a warming climate.

Combining the two techniques showed that deep - sea creatures dealt with a warmer climate long before their surface brethren did, they report in the online edition of Science.

The fact that ice sheets will respond to warming is not in doubt (note the 4 - 6 m sea level rise during the last interglacial), but the speed at which that might happen is highly uncertain, though the other story this week shows it is ongoing.

Co-author Dr Ivan Haigh, lecturer in coastal oceanography at the University of Southampton and also based at NOCS, adds: «Historical observations show a rising sea level from about 1800 as sea water warmed up and melt water from glaciers and ice fields flowed into the oceans.

The CTD sections show that the deeper layers are also warmer and slightly saltier and the observed sea level can be explained by steric expansion over the upper 2000 m. ENSO variability impacts on the northern part of the section, and a simple Sverdrup transport model shows how large - scale changes in the wind forcing, related to the Southern Annular Mode, may contribute to the deeper warming to the south.

«What this study shows is that summer sea ice in the Antarctic might not be particularly sensitive to a warming climate compared to the Arctic, however it does leave open the possibility that there has been a decrease in ice extent of at most 14 %.»

Sea surface temperatures above 78 degrees, shown here in yellow, orange and red, are sufficiently warm to fuel hurricanes.

Once Balog learned that tree rings, sea floor sediments, and ice core data were showing that the climate is warming on average, he changed his mind.

Figure 3 shows the sea level not to have been high during the Roman Warm Period and Medieval Warm Period.

The whale tale forms the center of the story but, for me, it was the bit players that stole the show - the rays wallowing in the warm water under the pier, the sun fish snoozling close to the legs of the oil rig, the green sea turtles «carrying their homes along with them like aquatic RVs» and the herd of dolphins vying with each other to perform the most dare - devilish tricks (I thought the collective noun for dolphins was pod, but Lynne refers to them as a herd, and I'm not the landlubber to question her!)

While there are those who still don't believe in global warming, hard scientific data shows the seas are rising.

Avista Hideaway's Jacuzzi Suites are set to raise the bar on elevated elegance with a generous 70 sq m of space where guests can spread their wings and stylishly warm contemporary Thai design to complement the spectacular sea and skyscapes on show.

A climate scientist at University of Reading shows you how bad Arctic sea ice is melting, so maybe stop listening to those claiming global warming is fake.

The scenarios show a warming of 1.9 — 3.8 K. Sea ice extent is distinctly reduced in the scenarios.

Thus you should look at the Vermeer & Rahmstorf (2009) study linked above, which correlates the tide gauge record with global mean temperature since 1880 and shows that the modern acceleration of sea level rise is closely related to modern global warming.]

A fresh analysis of thousands of temperature measurements from deep - diving Argo ocean probes shows (yet again) that Earth is experiencing «unabated planetary warming» when you factor in the vast amount of greenhouse - trapped heat that ends up in the sea.

Remember also that the US is only about 2 % of the globe and the global surface record corresponds closely with satellite measurements of the lower troposhere, and also the sea surface temperatures show a strikingly similar pattern of warming.

In the context of warming and sea levels, Nye can't resist pulling out a flask to show how heated water expands.

graphs that «show» things, I particularly like the supposed correlation between global warming and piracy on the high seas:

If you truly believe there is a significant rise in sea level (and compensation required by «glacial rebound») then certainly these classified datasets should show the impact of 50 years of warming.

I also remember Myles in a rather vivid phrase saying that we had to remember that we could still take actions to avert the worst warming and that we shouldn't assume «that our children will stand by and watch as the seas boil around them», showing that the worst case wasn't necessarily the most likely outcome.

4) The only other major difference in the findings, compared with our paper, is that we show significant warming over the eastern Ross sea region, while O'Donnell et al. show cooling, particularly in winter.

Irreversible Warming Will Cause Sea Levels to Rise for Thousands of Years to Come, New Research Shows http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121001191531.htm (In case you had any doubts.)

The quest for the «single figure» that shows anthropogeneic warming ignores the fact that (with the possible major exception of sea level) the direct impact of climate change will vary between regions and climatic zones.

The drilling showed a warming in the Pliocene ca 3 million years ago (see the Thiede and Myhre summary), but good indications of sea ice both before and since then.

== Post # 65 by Dan: == ==» The warming trends are shown by ocean temperatures, sea - level rise, glacier retreats, satellite measurements, etc..