Sentences with phrase «warm shallow surface»

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The role of this new zone as a refuge for shallower reef fishes seeking relief from warming surface waters or deteriorating coral reefs is still unclear.

In the Antarctic Zone, the Antarctic Surface Water has become warmer and fresher, and the Winter Water tongue has become warmer, fresher, thinner and shallower.

In the East Pacific, the warm surface waters are a very shallow layer on top of the deep cold waters.

The gestation period is about 13.5 months and the calf is born head first (unusual for cetaceans) and near the surface of the warm, shallow waters.

Micronesia has all the elements of a world - class snorkeling destination: warm, clear waters; calm conditions; plentiful and varied fish life; and rainbow - colored reefs that begin in shallow water — and in some cases rise right to the surface.

Manta Point and Crystal Bay can be more challenging due to the currents and cold water, and Nusa Lembongan is the relaxing, warmer, shallower dive usually done after a long lunch break and surface interval.

The scariest parts of the Siberian margin are the shallow parts, because this is where methane bubbles from the sea floor might reach the surface, and this is where the warming trend is observed most strongly.

(1) Most of the warming would actually occur near the surface in areas with shallow cold dry air masses, such as in Siberia and northern Canada where it would not have a large effect.

/ / ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/prcp/zr/frz.rxml Also seeNOAA «Freezing rain will occur if the warm layer in the atmosphere is deep with only a shallow layer of below freezing air at the surface.

It is a narrow (85 km) and very shallow (55 m) strait with a continuous northward flow (1 m / s) that siphons warm surface water from the Pacific.

That has led some to propose that after a while such an atmosphere becomes «isothermal» (the same temperature from top to bottom) at the same temperature as the surface save for a shallow layer in contact with the ground which can warm and cool conductively with the ground as sunlight comes and goes.

This shallow surface inversion is rapidly warmed out soon after dawn and the air - mass temp can quickly climb back to close to the previous days value.

Due to the Antarctic Refrigerator Effect, the deep oceans continued to cool, and the thermocline that separates warm surface water from cooler deep waters became increasingly more shallow.

''... worked with two sediment cores they extracted from the seabed of the eastern Norwegian Sea, developing a 1000 - year proxy temperature record «based on measurements of δ18O in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, a planktonic foraminifer that calcifies at relatively shallow depths within the Atlantic waters of the eastern Norwegian Sea during late summer,» which they compared with the temporal histories of various proxies of concomitant solar activity... This work revealed, as the seven scientists describe it, that «the lowest isotope values (highest temperatures) of the last millennium are seen ~ 1100 - 1300 A.D., during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and again after ~ 1950 A.D.» In between these two warm intervals, of course, were the colder temperatures of the Little Ice Age, when oscillatory thermal minima occurred at the times of the Dalton, Maunder, Sporer and Wolf solar minima, such that the δ18O proxy record of near - surface water temperature was found to be «robustly and near - synchronously correlated with various proxies of solar variability spanning the last millennium,» with decade - to century - scale temperature variability of 1 to 2 °C magnitude.»

When many modern families of animals developed in a hot greenhouse world in which a warm ocean and land filled most of earths surface with fertile shallow seas and vast tropical jungles.

When warm surface waters are shallow (left), cold water reaches the sea surface, greatly diminishing a hurricane's intensity.

That the slowdown in surface warming has been concentrated in the ocean - surface (and shallow - ocean) temperatures has led a number of scientists (including the Met Office) to posit that the pause in ocean surface warming may be driven in part by increased heat uptake in the deep ocean.

It looks like the sub-sea permafrost is failing due to warmer ocean temperatures and allowing methane to escape; because the Siberian Sea is very shallow the methane isn't oxidized as it travels to the surface.

-- Much of the Arctic is now ice free for long stretches, allowing increase in waves that can take surface warming down to the bed of the shallow ESAS