Sentences with phrase «subtle ocean change»

Following this delayed - mode correction, salinity errors are reduced further and in most cases the data become good enough to detect subtle ocean change.

Not exact matches

One of the subtle changes visible in the new data - set is how the Amazon's greenness corresponds to one of the long - known causes of rainfall or drought to the Amazon basin: changes in sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean, called the El Nino Southern Oscillation.

A subtle change in solar activity affects the atmosphere and oceans, altering weather in the Pacific.

Another possible issue with attribution science, he says, is that the current generation of simulations simply may not be capable of capturing some of the subtle changes in the climate and oceans — a particular danger when it comes to studies that find no link to human activities.

Sea - level rise and coral bleaching often dominate discussions about how climate change affects the ocean, but a host of more subtle — and harder to research — trends also play a role in reshaping the world's marine ecosystems.

Further north, milder - than - typical winter temperatures have been linked to subtle changes in ocean currents.

«It's a small correction,» he says, but «the ocean responds to very subtle changes in density» triggered by its heat content and chemistry.

REEF ZONATION: A trip from west (lagoon side) to east (ocean side) across the Belizean reef complex will reveal a distinct zonation of substrates and organisms that reflect the subtle environmental changes due to water depth and prevailing wave and current regimes which affect temperature, salinity, light, sedimentation and mechanical stress.

Journey within yourselves, embrace the sacred rhythm of the ocean and tune yourself to the subtle vibrations of volcanic energy through dynamic and ever - changing yoga practice and surfing in a perfect setting — Fuerteventura, Canary Islands.

These subtle, nearly abstract works had a life - changing effect on the West Coast painter Richard Diebenkorn, deciding him on a return to abstraction from figuration, and in 1967 he inaugurated his famous «Ocean Park» series.

There are no signs of massive forcing of these events, and my feeling (based on our model runs) is that they don't require that, because the ocean was very close to a threshold, so some subtle changes to the freshwater budget were all it took to trigger DO events.

I'm still inclined to think that subtle changes in ocean circulation patterns, with resulting local effects on climate, are more likley to be responsible.

To me, that suggests the possibility of some subtle relationship between solar activity, sea level changes and ocean temperatures changes, but I have not even a wild guess as to how such a relationship would work.

«such that the effect on the Pacific warm pool is a regional consequence of more subtle global changes involving all the oceans combined»