Sentences with phrase «steadily warming ocean»

The science of ice melt rates is advancing so fast, scientists have generally been reluctant to put a number to what is essentially an unpredictable, nonlinear response of ice sheets to a steadily warming ocean.

Global warming appears to be resulting in a steadily warming ocean layer, as well as moister atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Last year, a study published in Science Advances found that the oceans have been steadily storing more heat since the 1980s and that deeper layers of the ocean are starting to warm up, as well.

The anthropogenic global warming hypothesis says ocean heat should increase fairly steadily and uninterrupted (monotonic), barring any volcanic eruptions

Reducing the heat lost to the atmosphere allows the oceans to steadily warm over time - as has been observed over the last half century.

Now scientists have measured a rapid recent expansion of desert - like barrenness in the subtropical oceans --- in places where surface waters have also been steadily warming.

Ocean waters around Antarctica have warmed steadily for the past 50 years, but in addition to that, the region's shallow seas are also heating up, more quickly than others.

If fresh submarine groundwater discharge approaches just 7 % of the total SGD, it would not only balance current groundwater recharge, but would steadily raise sea level by an additional 2 mm / year, even if there was no ocean warming and no melting glaciers.

The anthropogenic global warming hypothesis says ocean heat should increase fairly steadily and uninterrupted (monotonic), barring any volcanic eruptions

2014 was not a record for global land areas [4th only] 2014 was not a record for the entire land oceans for Southern Hemisphere (2nd only) It was a record only for Northern Hemisphere oceans SST anomalies and only the North Pacific showed extra warming mostly as shown on Bob Tisdale's monthly reports of Ocean SST's The North Pacific SST has risen steadily from an anomaly of about 0.3 C in 2010 to almost 0.7 C in 2014.

«The top of the glacier is melting away as a result of decades of steadily increasing air temperatures, while its underside is compromised by currents carrying warmer ocean water, and the glacier is now breaking away into bits and pieces and retreating into deeper ground.»

The oceans have warmed steadily according to a number of independent ocean heat reconstructions