Sentences with phrase «strong upwelling»

Reduced equatorial cloud cover during La Nina (due to the cooler sea surface temperature), combined with the strong upwelling (Ekman suction) in the eastern equatorial Pacific, does indeed lead to greater warming of the ocean - because it's bringing cool subsurface water to the surface, where it can be heated by the sun.

Greater than threefold increases in ocean nutrient content combined with nutrient - trapping ocean circulation cause surface - water H2S accumulation in the paleo — Tethys Ocean and in areas of strong upwelling.

Scientists thought strong upwelling of colder deep waters spared the region from the warming seen in other parts of the Pacific, she says.

If ice retreats and there is strong upwelling, these copepods could end up on the inner shelf and possibly outcompete smaller zooplankters.

When the wind - driven ocean circulation is intense, such as during the negative phase of the IPO & La Nina, there is strong upwelling of cold deep water along the equator, and along the eastern coasts of the continents.

It is a result of strong upwelling of nutrient rich water in the eastern Pacific.

Blue whales and humpback whales are most frequently found near the islands in the summer and fall, when strong upwelling may support a rich pelagic food web.

«The geochemical signals were consistent with a period that is very cool and very wet, with very strong upwelling, which is more like a modern day La Niña event in this part of the Pacific.»

Climate modeling shows that the trends of warming ocean temperatures, stronger winds and increasingly strong upwelling events are expected to continue in the coming years as carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere increase.

Scientists thought strong upwelling of colder deep waters spared the region from the warming seen in other parts of the Pacific, she said.

The study found cooler sea temperatures, greater precipitation and stronger upwelling — all indicators of La Niña - like conditions at the study site in Panama — during a period when coral reef accretion stopped in this region around 4,100 years ago.

A stronger upwelling occurs.

Because the active region of convective clouds is located relatively in the eastern Pacific sector during El Niño events, it is suggested that the stronger upwelling and the higher tropopause associated with the convective cloud activity bring about less total ozone.»

Thus, it appears that it is not stronger upwelling during the season when positive values for the Upwelling Index prevail, but rather a weakening of downwelling typical of fall and winter months.

Not exact matches

Becker noted that correlation does not imply causality, «but it is pretty nifty that we found two strong correlations, which both point to the same physically plausible mechanism: the primordial stuff gets picked up preferentially by the most buoyant thermochemical upwellings.»

Scientists studying volcanic hotspots have strong evidence of this, finding high helium - 3 relative to helium - 4 in some plumes, the upwellings from Earth's deep mantle.

In Pacific Panamá, La Niña - like periods are characterized by a cold, wet climate with strong seasonal upwelling.

Climate simulations suggest that that upwelling has generally cooled Earth's climate, stifling about 0.1 °C to 0.2 °C in warming that would have occurred by 2012 if winds hadn't been inordinately strong, the researchers reported online yesterday in Nature Climate Change.

Phytoplankton production is enhanced by strong winds (because they cause upwelling of nutrients from deeper waters) and diminished by weaker winds, and the scientists found evidence that trade winds were weaker then.

BUT, due to the strong offshore winds from December - March and upwelling, the water temperature can drop overnight and require you to wear some thin neoprene.

There's typically an initial ocean uptake as tropical East Pacific upwelling (CO2 degassing) is reduced, followed by a stronger release of carbon from land.

110 meow: But the extra water vapor created by an accelerated hydro cycle is also a strong GHG, so it traps more upwelling IR.

But the extra water vapor created by an accelerated hydro cycle is also a strong GHG, so it traps more upwelling IR.

The California Current is quite strong, and, our upwelling is fierce, clear down to Los Cabos.

An especially strong Walker circulation causes a La Niña, resulting in cooler ocean temperatures due to increased upwelling.

Thus the effect of sediment cores, which show strong local effects (e.g. in upwelling regions) is minimized, and the mean SST anomaly should be more representative for large scale tropical conditions (dominated by large scale forcings, such as lowered CO2 concentrations).

Recently, there appears to have been more cool water than normal associated with the upwelling (cool) Kelvin waves, so we've had the double - dip (2010/11 La Niña and 2011/12 La Niña) and now La Niña conditions — though I don't know that we could classify this as a triple - dip, since we did reach strong El Niño conditions for a short period of time during 2012.

The greater the SST difference between the east and the west Pacific, the stronger the wind and the stronger the current; the stronger the current, the greater the rate of upwelling / cooling.

Stronger downward transport of water mass must be balanced by upwelling somewhere else, and this occurs in regions of divergence (Ekman suction)- along the equatorward travelling arms of the gyres, and along the equator itself.

Organisms living in areas where upwelling of cool, low pH water occurs (e.g. Eastern Pacific and Baltic Sea) may be acclimatized / adapted to acidification [31 — 34], whereas those living in areas with strong warming (e.g. Eastern Australia) may be acclimatized / adapted to increased temperature [7,35].

The upwelling may have been so strong, however, that the phytoplankton did not keep pace with the upwelling — that is, more carbon dioxide upwelled than was used by the phytoplankton.

A)- Cloud cover is reduced B)- Winds are reduced C)- Higher temperature water upwells D)- Upwelling is reduced or stopped E) Surface winds are reduced while winds aloft are strong enough to carry away humidity and prevent clouds and precipitation The occurences of el Nino seem to affect the global temperature even more than adjusting data or pretending tree rings are ancient thermometers.

And as soon as this happens at «locations of potential [strong] upwelling», a cooling pattern can start.