The same mechanism explains why at the end of ice ages
deep southern ocean heating / currents start 2000 years before any atmospheric CO2 rise.
This acts as what engineers call «negative feedback» and would explain the paradox of more
extensive southern ocean ice in a warming world.
The Clelia II's cruise ship's recent troubles
in Southern Ocean waters resurfaces questions about tourism regulation in the Antarctic
However, if the remaining ice shelf collapses or starts losing mass more rapidly, it could effectively unplug the glaciers next to the shelf, sending land - based ice
into Southern Ocean, and contributing to sea level rise.
The aim of the Partnership is to implement and promote non-lethal whale research techniques to maximise conservation outcomes
for Southern Ocean whales.
Stephanie M. Downes, Riccardo Farneti, Petteri Uotila, Stephen M. Griffies, Simon J. Marsland, et al. (2015) An assessment of
Southern Ocean water masses and sea ice during 1988 - 2007 in a suite of interannual CORE - II simulations, 94, 67 - 94, Ocean Modelling, doi: 10.1016 / j.ocemod.2015.07.022,
Any answer on this is speculative but the activity of the Sun with its impact
on Southern Ocean winds provides an intriguing parallel to the ENSO proxy shown above.
It is this and their spectacular positioning next to vertical cliffs with the Great
Southern Ocean as their background that enable them to claim their rightful position as the Great Ocean Road's number one tourist attraction.
Today, Japan sustained its biggest strike since the 1982 global moratorium on commercial whaling with a ruling by the International Court of Justice that its current
southern ocean whaling activities are in breach of the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling.
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Southern Ocean Lodge open onto the wild coast of Kangaroo Island, called «Australia's Galapagos»
The authors» cross-cutting vision of a new mechanism for faster sea rise — along with the novel model runs flooding the Atlantic and
Southern Ocean with fresh water and the detailed assembly of supporting evidence — are all what edge - pushing science does.
Reminiscent of Wales or Scotland the tranquil rural valley is precariously protected from the untamed
Southern Ocean by a thin ridge of limestone that sweeps back and rises to form a forested ridge descending into magnificent lush fern gullies, habitat for the healthy bird life that frequents our cottages.
«This is a dark day not just for the Antarctic, but for the world's oceans,» Andrea Kavanagh, director of the independent Pew Charitable Trusts»
Southern Ocean sanctuaries project, said.
cf Closure of the meridional overturning circulation
through Southern Ocean upwelling John Marshall, & Kevin Speer, Nature Geoscience 5, 171 — 180, (2012) doi: 10.1038 / ngeo1391
Significant changes in
Southern Ocean wind patterns were observed in August, September, and November, but air temperatures and ocean conditions were not highly unusual.
[b] Cessation of deep convection in the open
Southern Ocean under anthropogenic climate change [/ b]
Drive 11.5 kilometres (7 miles) to Cape Leeuwin, where the Indian and
Southern oceans meet at the south - western tip of Australia.
There is strong evidence for a tight relation of
Southern Ocean iron fertilization to this record (30, 31).
It has become clear over the past few years that the importance of
Southern Ocean upwelling for our understanding of climate rivals that of North Atlantic downwelling, because it controls the rate at which ocean reservoirs of heat and carbon communicate with the surface.
Floating atop a secluded cliff on a rugged stretch of coast at Hanson Bay, the lodge commands peerless views of the
wild Southern Ocean and pristine Kangaroo Island wilderness.
Changes in the mode of
Southern Ocean circulation over the last glacial cycle revealed by foraminiferal stale isotopic variability.
SAILING — SPRINT, a 42 - foot Joubert / Nivelt owned by John Stevens of Grosse Pointe, Mich., won the overall honors in the IOR division of the six - race
Southern Ocean Racing Conference.
Jim Barnes has been watching this process closely, as head of a nongovernmental organization called the Antarctic and
Southern Ocean Coalition.
«We're confident it will work now that we have figured out how to launch a torpedo from an Antarctic research vessel,» says Garth Paltridge, director of the Institute of Antarctic and
Southern Ocean Studies at the University of Tasmania.
SCAR - MarBIN has brought together over 1 million distribution records for
Southern Ocean species, forming a baseline against which future change can be judged.
The lodge is surrounded by national park, with endless forests of manna gums that act like a magnet for koalas — it's the best place in Australia to see them — and it's just minutes from where
Southern Ocean swells crash on to a craggy coastline punctuated by family - friendly bays.