Sentences with phrase «total volume of the ocean»

Other simple methods for controlling sea level are almost as simple, using heavy equipment to move shoreline dirt inland, thus increasing the total volume of the ocean basin.

Not exact matches

The total volume of rain is easier to calculate when a storm remains over a fixed area, but it much harder to suss out when hurricanes remain mobile and dump water over a wide swath of land and ocean.

In this model, the ocean beneath the ice makes up 40 % of the total volume of the moon, while its salt content is estimated to be similar to that of Earth's oceans.

At the end of this summer, only a quarter of the Arctic Ocean was still covered in ice, a record low in modern times, and the total volume of ice was just a fifth of what it was three decades ago (see «Record Arctic ice loss»).

The typical estimate of the sea - level change is five metres, a value arrived at by taking the total volume of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, converting it to water and spreading it evenly across the oceans.

Combined with a large decline in MY ice coverage over this short record, there is a reversal in the volumetric and areal contributions of the two ice types to the total volume and area of the Arctic Ocean ice cover.

Per this same study, the top sources by total volume of plastic waste flowing into the ocean are located primarily in Southeast Asia, led by China, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Sri Lanka.

However because we don't measure ocean heat content below 2000m (about half of the total volume), the OHC you cite applies to the top half volume only, so the average dT in this part of volume is just under 0.1 K (0.08) consistent with the estimates.

According to you, Svalgaard should be able to calculate «the total excess energy which entered the oceans» and be «able to calculate cloud cover, both volume and latitude» for two sets of 4 solar cycle time frames that you don't even identify.

From there could you possibly make the giant leap of calculating the total volume of the world's glaciers vs. the total surface of the earth's ocean and seas and realize how small an impact of their melting would have upon the sea level?

All of these characteristics (except for the ocean temperature) have been used in SAR and TAR IPCC (Houghton et al. 1996; 2001) reports for model - data inter-comparison: we considered as tolerable the following intervals for the annual means of the following climate characteristics which encompass corresponding empirical estimates: global SAT 13.1 — 14.1 °C (Jones et al. 1999); area of sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere 6 — 14 mil km2 and in the Southern Hemisphere 6 — 18 mil km2 (Cavalieri et al. 2003); total precipitation rate 2.45 — 3.05 mm / day (Legates 1995); maximum Atlantic northward heat transport 0.5 — 1.5 PW (Ganachaud and Wunsch 2003); maximum of North Atlantic meridional overturning stream function 15 — 25 Sv (Talley et al. 2003), volume averaged ocean temperature 3 — 5 °C (Levitus 1982).

«Nevertheless, the ocean layers above 700 m and 2,000 m represent only 20 % and 50 %, respectively, of the total ocean volume.»

They don't show the error in the estimates of volumes, which in at least three instances, atmosphere, oceans, and vegetation / soil detritus, exceed estimates for total human production.

The substantial rise in OHC would produce about 1 C of warming in the total ocean volume in about 400 years.