Sentences with phrase «unusually high sea»

The unusually high sea ice surface temperatures reflect a shift in ocean circulation, enhancing the import of warm, Atlantic - derived waters into the Arctic Ocean.

This pattern combined with unusually high sea surface temperatures over the Barents and Kara Seas and helped to keep Arctic sea ice extent at low levels for November and December.

Updated, 6:14 p.m. Assessing widespread reports of reef stress along with unusually high sea - surface temperatures, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is warning of a globe - spanning bleaching of corals in coastal waters around the tropics.

The corals have been hit by unusually high sea temperatures — a consequence of El Niño, the periodic blister of heat that bubbles up in the Pacific and started in full force last year.

Turner added, «These are precisely the conditions we experienced in Sydney over the past weekend — waves from the north - east, combined with unusually high sea levels brought on by king tides wreaked considerable damage.

Not exact matches

The Dead Sea gets its name from being made of salt water of an unusually high salt content.

A new ocean drilling expedition will try to settle the question by drilling into crust where high temperatures are found unusually close to the sea floor, bringing life's thermal limit within reach.

«We found out that that winter there was an unusually high number of high pressure systems over the Barents Sea combined with polar lows.

About half the drop in sea level during the 18 - month period in question could be ascribed to unusually high rainfall in Australia, the researchers will report in a forthcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters.

The extraordinary cold spell was probably strengthened and lengthened by the resulting increase in sea ice at high latitudes, as well as an unusually low number of sunspots in the middle of the 7th century.

However, extreme events may require the combined effect of increased prevailing winds and tropical storms guided by the strengthened blocking high pressure and nurtured by the unusually warm late - Eemian tropical sea surface temperatures (Cortijo et al., 1999), which would favor more powerful tropical storms (Emanuel, 1987).

The bleaching event has been tied to the combination of unusually high water temperatures in the Coral Sea and GBR and a strong El Nino event in the Pacific.

In March of 2015, an unusually high number of sea lions pups were stranded on California beaches during an Unusual Mortality Event (UME), a sad phenomenon that is reaching a record - breaking high.

When you have the largest Atlantic storm in recorded history that is being feed by unusually warm ocean waters (+5 °F) and is being steered in a very unusual direction by a «3 - sigma» blocking higher over Greenland after the largest Arctic sea ice melt in human history, you might want to consider the «steroid» hypothesis a bit more.

But when they studied young white sea bass raised in tanks with seawater with high carbon dioxide levels, they saw the opposite effect: These fish experienced unusually extensive growth of their otoliths compared with fish raised in water with normal levels of carbon dioxide.

The observations from the Laptev Sea in 2007 indicate that the bottom water temperatures on the mid-shelf increased by more than 3 C compared to the long - term mean as a consequence of the unusually high summertime surface water temperatures.

NOAA issued a warning about unusually high tides due to the «Supermoon», but have no doubt: sea level rise is in this as well.

Unusually high Antarctic sea ice is surrounding most of the continent across thousands of miles of sea ice perimeter.

They will, of course, be rendered uninhabitable far sooner because of the fluctuations in sea level caused by unusually high tides associated with storms.

Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in October were unusually high over the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, as well as the Barents and Kara Seas along the Eurasian coast, helping to limit ice growth.

October air temperatures at the 925 hPa level (about 2,500 feet above sea level) were unusually high over most of the Arctic Ocean (Figure 2c), especially over the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas and over the East Greenland Sea (up to 8 degrees Celsius or 14 degrees Fahrenheit above the 1981 to 2010 averagsea level) were unusually high over most of the Arctic Ocean (Figure 2c), especially over the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas and over the East Greenland Sea (up to 8 degrees Celsius or 14 degrees Fahrenheit above the 1981 to 2010 averagSea (up to 8 degrees Celsius or 14 degrees Fahrenheit above the 1981 to 2010 average).

«There is medium confidence that the rate of current global mean sea level change is unusually high in the context of the past millennium.»

«Reduced sea ice conditions and unusually high air temperatures have facilitated the ice shelf losses,» said Luke Copland of the University of Ottawa.

After a winter filled with unusually high temperatures, sea ice now sits at less than 10 percent of what could previously be considered «normal».

Florida's unusually long cold snap this month led to a record - high manatee count, an unprecedented rescue of 5,000 sea turtles and massive fish kills that prompted a few temporary fishing bans.

Some of the rooms seemed unusable because they were so small but the house had high ceilings, views of the sea from the top floor and, unusually for Ramsgate, a big garden.