Sentences with phrase «upper ocean»

And in terms of upper ocean surface somewhere around twice as much as this.

Figure 3: global annual upper ocean heat content.

Either changes in the ocean circulation will lead to more upper ocean warming again, or increased melting of land ice will overwhelm the reduced thermal expansion and accelerate the sea level rise.

It is being transferred downward, but is capable of influencing upper ocean temperature in a warming direction for observations over a sufficient interval — which is to say multiple decades.

This is significantly deeper than other recent papers that focus on upper ocean heat, only going down to 700 metres.

I don't need an assessment of the models at predicting climate metrics including upper ocean heat content.

The latter continues a fairly steady upward trend while the surface temperatures and upper ocean heat content undergo a hiatus in warming after about 2004.

The expedition also identified over 5,000 viral populations throughout the global upper oceans.

New Dutch research has shown for instance the overturning has been relatively weak in recent years [which means cold water has accumulated close to the surface instead of sinking to deeper waters, one of two reasons why there has been a lull in upper ocean warming].

Scientists also claim that the impact of the asteroid would have filled Earth's atmosphere with sulphur trioxide, subsequently creating a gas cloud that would have caused a mass amount of sulphuric acid rain to fall in just a few days, making the surface of the ocean too acidic for upper ocean creatures to live.

A composite analysis of satellite - based SST measurements reveals that in the tropical region the average strength of the storm - induced sea surface cooling can be explained by the superposition of an effect due to the storm intensity and an effect associated with the translation speed, and implies that the variability of upper ocean stratification may not be an important factor in this region

«Second, to explain why early Pliocene estimates of Earth System sensitivity are so high, it may be important to improve how the large observed changes in upper ocean circulation are simulated by models.

Chelle is a physical oceanographer who specializes in upper ocean dynamics, air - sea interactions, and passive microwave remote sensing.

«Dr. Carlson holds a PhD in Oceanography and led successful research on upper ocean physics and chemistry, oceanic microbiology and carbon cycling, and marine chemical ecology at Oregon State University.

For example, there are certain time constants associated with atmospheric response, upper ocean response, deep ocean response, and so forth.

This feature, and the fact that warm ocean eddies are known to assist in the intensification of hurricanes due to deep warm thermal layers, lead the researchers to theorize that the barrier layer within a warm ocean eddy may result in an even more favorable upper ocean environment for hurricane intensification.

Time series of temperature anomaly for all waters warmer than 14 °C show large reductions in interannual to inter-decadal variability and a more spatially uniform upper ocean warming trend (0.12 Wm − 2 on average) than previous results.

The other incorrect premise in your question is that the THC is a zero - sum game as far as tropical and extratropical North Atlantic upper ocean heat content (and SST) is concerned.

The set of Comments and the original posting on Real Climate have advanced the discussion of the signficance and the issues associated with the observed recent upper ocean cooling.

I agree with Jamie — the thermal structure is dominated by the Atlantic water maximum temperature which is trapped in a strongly stratified upper ocean.

Not only are the zones inhospitable to most sea creatures, they squeeze critical upper ocean habitat as they enlarge, said Sarah Moffitt, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Davis» Bodega Marine Laboratory.

«The elusive nature of the post-2004 upper ocean warming has exposed uncertainties in the ocean's role in the Earth's energy budget and transient climate sensitivity.

White, W., and D. Cayan, 1998: Quasi-periodicity and global symmetries in interdecadal upper ocean temperature variability, J. Geophys.

What Lyman 2010 shows very clearly is that although upper ocean heat increases are irregular, the trend is very clear:

This state of affairs is only possible because of the increased flow input to the top of our ocean — if it hadn't increased the water level in our bucket upper ocean would have decreased.

This modulates the flow of heat from below and hence controls upper ocean heat content.

Interestingly, there's a recent paper out which suggests that ocean heat uptake due to tropical cyclone upper ocean mixing has been significantly overestimated in the past, so it'll be interesting to see how this develops in the community.

We also find that H is predicted with significantly more skill by DePreSys than by NoAssim (Fig. 1B), and we conclude that the improvement of DePreSys over NoAssim in predicting Ts on interannual - to - decadal time scales results mainly from initializing upper ocean heat content.

Unfortunately we do not have any reliable and comprehensive measurements of upper ocean temperature and heat content prior to 2003, when ARGO measurements replaced the old expendable and spotty XBT data.