Sentences with phrase «through global ocean circulation»
In addition, the authors provide compelling evidence of both the important coupling of ocean and atmosphere processes and the strong communication, of effects of climatic change, between the waters of the Northern and Southern hemisphere through global ocean circulation.»
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At a global scale, the increased melting of the ice sheet contributes to rising sea level and may impact global ocean circulation patterns through the so - called «thermohaline circulation'that sustains among others, the Gulf Stream, which keeps Europe warm.
Scientists now estimate that the circulation of seawater through the oceanic crust accounts for 34 % of the heat input into the global oceans, about 25 % of the globe's total heat input.
Changes in the Arctic affect the rest of the world, not only in obvious ways (such as the Arctic's contribution to sea - level rise), but through the Arctic's role in the global climate system, its influence on ocean circulation, and its impacts on mid-latitude weather.
The oceans can impact global mean surface temperature in several ways; directly, through surface fluxes of heat, or indirectly, by altering the atmospheric circulation and impacting the distribution of clouds and water vapor.