Sentences with phrase «underlying oceans of water»

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To do this, they combined ocean wave data available from measurements taken by ocean buoys, with nonlinear analysis of the underlying water wave equations.

The underlying logic is sound: as sea ice melts, it exposes darker ocean water, which absorbs more of the sun's heat, causing the water temperatures to increase.

The deposits were formed over hundreds of thousands of years in the past, when the sea level was much lower and areas now under the ocean were exposed to rainfall which was absorbed into the underlying water table.

The waters that underlie the near - surface subtropical waters have freshened due to equatorward circulation of the freshened subpolar surface waters; in particular, the fresh intermediate water layer (at ~ 1,000 m) in the SH has freshened in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Furthermore, the surface temperatures of the warmest tropical oceans seldom exceed 30C and for millions of years the underlying cold sub-surface waters have provided a powerful thermal buffer to warming.

«Record high ocean temperatures were experienced along the Western Australian coast during the austral summer of 2010/2011... This heat wave was an unprecedented thermal event in Western Australian waters, superimposed on an underlying long - term temperature rise.»