Sentences with phrase «via atmospheric transport»

Storms help replenish warm water next to the ice, and help carry addtional heat into the melting region via atmospheric transport of warmer moist air.

Black carbon is the soot - like byproduct of wildfires and fossil fuel consumption, able to be carried long distances via atmospheric transport.

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Astrid Schnetzer, associate professor of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences at NC State, wanted to know how domoic acid gets transported to depth via marine snow after a toxic algal bloom and how long it may persist.

And no, there is no huge plunge in tropical or global surface air temperatures when the ocean circulation spins up because there is a near - compensating decrease in poleward heat transport via the atmospheric circulation.

I hadn't heard about the heat transport via the atmosphere, but it didn't surprise me — that is what the jet streams are all about — a wind caused by an atmospheric temperature differential, given a little bit of a spin.