Sentences with phrase «unusually warm current»
In 2012, a new record low was established, and a contributor to this was an unusually warm current that merged with the Beaufort Sea Gyre.
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A circular room studded with windows eight metres (26 feet) beneath the ocean's surface reveals up to 300 species of colourful coral, fish and other marine life, fed by an unusually warm current.
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Ocean currents bringing unusually warm water, for instance, could shift away more from Greenland, or move in closer, he said.
Deeper water remained unusually warm, especially in the northern part of the California Current.
El Niño — a warming of tropical Pacific Ocean waters that changes weather patterns across the globe — causes forests to dry out as rainfall patterns shift, and the occasional unusually strong «super» El Niños, like the current one, have a bigger effect on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
An especially powerful El Niño cycle in 1998 is thought to have contributed to the unusually high temperatures that year, and Hansen's group estimates that there's a good chance 2010 will be the warmest year on record if the current El Niño persists.
And their perception of the current weather colored their perception of everything: those who believed it was an unusually warm day outside also believed that a greater percentage of days over the previous year had been hotter than average, as well.
The current bleaching event has affected reefs throughout the tropics — including much of the Pacific and parts of the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic and the Caribbean basin — and is largely thanks to the onset of a particularly severe El Niño event in 2015, which has resulted in unusually warm water temperatures in many regions.
Dobbs introduced his «special report» on what current weather «means for a discussion of global warming» by discussing substantial snowfall in parts of the United States and adding, «Perhaps Al Gore now is considering global warming isn't such a problem, because it is unusually warm in his home state of Tennessee.