Not exact matches
«These conditions will cause changes in phytoplankton growth and
ocean circulation around Antarctica, with the net effect of transferring nutrients from the
upper ocean to the deep
ocean,» said lead author J. Keith Moore, UCI professor of Earth system science.
For decades, research on climate variations in the Atlantic has focused almost exclusively on the role of
ocean circulation as the main driver, specifically the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which carries warm water north in the upper layers of the ocean and cold water south in lower layers like a large con
circulation as the main driver, specifically the Atlantic Meridional Overturning
Circulation, which carries warm water north in the upper layers of the ocean and cold water south in lower layers like a large con
Circulation, which carries warm water north in the
upper layers of the
ocean and cold water south in lower layers like a large conveyor belt.
A study relating to this — «Our study confirms many changes seen in
upper Arctic
Ocean circulation in the 1990s were mostly decadal in nature, rather than trends caused by global warming,» said Morison.
~ Our study confirms many changes seen in
upper Arctic
Ocean circulation in the 1990s were mostly decadal in nature, rather than trends caused by global warming,» / / www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-131 [ANDY REVKIN comments: That's precisely what I wrote in the Science Times feature on Arctic ice in September (link is in the post).
... not intended to suggest that the heat capacity exchange / transfer / transport rates used are a realistic representation of actual
ocean circulation, although from what little I know, it could be a step in that general direction from using one
upper and one deep
ocean reservoir.
Thus, some heat gets converted to kinetic energy, but that gets converted back to heat, either by viscosity or by thermally - indirect
circulations that produce APE while pulling heat downward in the process (LHSO: Ferrel cell (driven by extratropical storm track activity), Planetary - scale overturning in the stratosphere and mesosphere (includes Brewer - Dobson
circulation (I'm not sure if the whole thing is the Brewer - Dobson
circulation or if only part of it is)-RRB-, some motions in the
ocean; LVO: wind driven mixing of the boundary layer and of the
upper ocean (though mixing itself tends to destroy the APE that the kinetic energy would create by forcing heat downward)-RRB-.
It's what drives the atmospheric
circulation and the
ocean currents that mix the
upper warm layers of the
ocean with the deeper colder layers, and vice versa.
Warming is widespread over the
upper layer of the
ocean (500 meters or so), and this may change normal
ocean circulation patterns, with unforeseen consequences.
flow in the
upper 1,000 meters of
ocean driven by global winds N. and S. hemispheres each have two
circulations caused by the Coriolis Effect clockwise.
Yet, we explained there is also reasonable basis for concern that a warming world may at least temporarily increase tornado damage including the fact that
oceans are now warmer, and regional
ocean circulation cycles such as La Nina / El Nino patterns in the Pacific which affect
upper atmospheric conditions appear to becoming more chaotic under the influence of climate change.
Thermohaline
circulation (THC)- Large - scale
circulation in the
ocean that transforms low - density
upper ocean waters to higher - density intermediate and deep waters and returns those waters back to the
upper ocean.
Evidence from the Pacific and the Atlantic suggests that nutrient supply to the
upper productive layer of the
ocean is declining due to reductions in the Meridional Overturning
Circulation and upwelling (McPhaden and Zhang, 2002; Curry and Mauritzen, 2005) and changes in the deposition of wind - borne nutrients.
Slow variations in
upper ocean heat content that have been observed in the subpolar and marginal ice zone regions of the Atlantic since the mid-twentieth century are thought to be related to changes in the strength of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning
Circulation (AMOC).
The major climate system indices that are operationally used at ICPAC include evolution of monsoons, medium and
upper level winds, Madden - Julian Oscillation (MJO), Quasi Biennial Oscillation (QBO), El Niño Southern Oscillation, Indian
Ocean dipole (IOD), tropical cyclones, sea surface temperature gradients among many others that have been derived from general
circulation.
Published estimates of anthropogenic CO2 now stored in the
upper ocean layers and affecting pH has been based on «the assumption that
ocean circulation and the biological pump have operated in a steady state since preindustrial times» (Sabine 2010).
Atlantic Meridional Overturning
Circulation A major current in the Atlantic
Ocean, characterized by a northward flow of warm, salty water in the
upper layers of the Atlantic, and a southward flow of colder water in the deep Atlantic.
And they have been used to make a variety of predictions — including for example that with an enhanced greenhouse effect the
upper stratosphere will cool while the troposphere warms, that nights will warm more rapidly than days, and more generally the Hadley Cells and dry subtropics will expand, the continental interiors dry out, storm tracks move northward, the tropopause rise, changes in
ocean circulation.
The closing of the Central American Seaway intensified the Gulf Stream, the
upper limb of a conveyor - like global
ocean circulation called the Ocean Conv
ocean circulation called the
Ocean Conv
Ocean Conveyor.
The Ekman upwelling from the wind stress curl associated with these structures plays an important role in
ocean circulation theory, as well as in
ocean biology from upwelling of nutrients from the deep water into the
upper ocean where they can be utilized by phytoplankton.