Sentences with phrase «unusually high water temperatures»

Coral bleaching occurs when corals are stressed by unusually high water temperatures, or from other causes.

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.

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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 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.

The summer of 2002 had unusually high temperatures resulting in unusually little water flow in rivers without glaciers in their catchment area.

Causality is always tricky to assign in cases such as this one, since it's entirely possible that the ridging itself has led to warm surface water though decreased oceanic mixing by wind and unusually high air temperatures.

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.

The storm is passing over waters of 29 °C — approximately 0.5 °C above average in temperature — and is an unusually wet storm, with amounts of water vapor near the very high end of what is observed in tropical cyclones (precipitable water values up to 3.0 inches.)

Symbiodinium trenchi, which normally occurs in very low numbers in the Caribbean, was able to take advantage of the warming event and become more prolific because of its apparent tolerance of high temperatures... the species appears to have saved certain colonies of coral from the damaging effects of unusually warm water.