Sentences with phrase «volume of the ocean»

Water mass - A volume of ocean water with identifiable properties (temperature, salinity, density, chemical tracers) resulting from its unique formation process.
Other simple methods for controlling sea level are almost as simple, using heavy equipment to move shoreline dirt inland, thus increasing the total volume of the ocean basin.
The barystatic sea level rise, the actual increasing volume of the ocean, in particular, is masked from measurements that are based on satellite observations.
It seems to me that they must show deeper mixing than 50 M, since there is not enough mass in the upper 50 meters of ocean to account for the annual heat storage changes that are implied by observations for the the full integrated 700 meter volume of ocean.
The heat would dissipate to the general volume of the ocean — so, no, the deep ocean would NOT be hot.
The odds of randomly picking a wine molecule from the ocean is tiny — about 10 - 21 — because the volume of the bottle is so small relative to the volume of the ocean.
Could someone translate 10 ^ 23 joules into degrees, for those of us afraid to slip a digit figuring the volume of the ocean?
Even without melting ice (of which there is plenty), wouldn't warmer water increase the volume of the ocean raising sea level?
Changes in sea floor spreading rates effect the volume of the mid-oceanic ridges which may contribute to changes in the volume of the ocean basins.
Vertical land movements such as resulting from glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), tectonics, subsidence and sedimentation influence local sea level measurements but do not alter ocean water volume; nonetheless, they affect global mean sea level through their alteration of the shape and hence the volume of the ocean basins containing the water.
There are a couple of ways to estimate the volume of the oceans and hence the temperature.
The melting of Greenland, Antarctica, mountain glaciers around the globe, and the corresponding expansion of the volume of the ocean as it warms, are expected to increase their pace.
Sea level changes can be driven by either variations in the masses or volume of the oceans («eustatic»), or by changes of the sea surface relative to the land («relative»).
Eustatic change (as opposed to local change) results in an alteration to the global sea levels due to changes in either the volume of water in the world's oceans or net changes in the volume of the ocean basins.
Using 4.18 J / g / C for water I compute that 2.5 e23 joules would heat this volume of the ocean only 0.0001 deg C, which has to be immeasurable.
That increased heat has expanded the volume of the oceans and has been recorded as a rise in sea - level.
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