Sentences with phrase «warm surface waters»

On both satellite images, particularly warm surface waters are illustrated in red and white, while normal ocean conditions are illustrated in green.

(By the way, neither has sea - level rise due to thermal expansion, because the thermal expansion coefficient is several times larger for warm surface waters than for the cold deep waters — again it is warming in the surface layers that counts, while the total ocean heat content tells us little about the amount of sea - level rise.)

Last year was the hottest since records began and with an El Nino now under way the warm surface waters of the Pacific are releasing heat into the atmosphere with the result 2015 is likely to break last year's record and the global average surface temperature could jump by as much as 0.1 degree this year alone bring global surface temperatures increases to 1 degrees or half way to the UN global limit.

That is how warm surface waters get down to depth.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)-- characterized by warm surface waters flowing northward and cold deep waters flowing southward throughout the Atlantic basin — is defined as the zonal integral of the northward mass flux at a particular latitude.

The warm surface waters radiate more heat to the atmosphere and even directly to space, so there's more net cooling going on than in ENSO - neutral or La Nina conditions.

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

In the Atlantic Ocean, the current known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) ferries warm surface waters northward — where the heat is released into the atmosphere — and carries cold water south in the deeper ocean layers, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

``... mixing of cold, deep ocean waters with solar - heated warm surface waters.»

If the earth core is somewhere in the 5,000 to 10,000 deg C range; and the surface / lower troposphere is 15 deg C; and you say that the deep oceans are at 4 deg C; and are sucking in «heat» from the warm surface waters; where the hell is all that heat piling up down there.

«The short answer is that, during El Nino, there is an average decrease in the vertical overturning and mixing of cold, deep ocean waters with solar - heated warm surface waters.»

This is the power stroke of the pump, when the trade winds strip the warm surface waters off and push them westwards.

After the warm surface waters have been stripped and pumped poleward by the wind, the subsurface waters are cooler than before.

And part of it caused by the warm surface waters being blown back to the west when the trade winds resume after the El Niño.

So, it is not surprising that those modellers who «need» to get warm surface waters to move into the depths of the oceans, and remain sequestered there for long periods of time, would turn to the physical mechanism of this vertical circulation system.

The result is the Trade Winds movement «dragging» warm surface waters towards Asia, that water being replaced by cooler water from the depths off the coast of South America.

The Pentagon report describes a scenario in which human - caused global warming leads to a near - term collapse of the ocean's thermohaline circulation, which brings warm surface waters from the tropics to the North Atlantic, warming parts of Western Europe.

The Pacific trade winds can't push the warm surface waters any farther.

According to McLean and Foster, this predominance of warm surface waters in the Pacific has heated the Earth, particularly in the NH, and generated a rather abrupt upturn in global warming after 1976.

It represents in a simple way how ocean currents carry warm surface waters from the equator toward the poles and moderate global climate.»

Sea level on the West coast may begin to rise due to climate regime shift as warm surface waters return to the Pacific Read More

Unlike their better - known tropical cousins, which grow in warm surface waters, these cold - water corals grow very slowly and can live to be many hundreds of years old.

The CO2 concentration of the atmosphere is going up continuously, and so it invades the ocean as it equilibrates with warm surface waters.

At the same time, the warm surface waters collect more heat from the atmosphere as they move further westward, and form a warm pool near New Guinea, Australia and the Philippines.

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

Warm surface waters do not end at a uniform depth all over globe.

In the West Pacific, the warm surface waters reach deeper than anywhere else in the ocean.

With the removal of the warm surface waters, an upwelling current is created in the east Pacific Ocean, bringing cold water up from deeper levels.

The deep circulation that drives warm surface waters north is weakening, leading to a cooling of the north Atlantic relative to the rest of the oceans.

Organisms that have evolved in environments that have little if any change in environmental conditions, for example, may not be able to adapt well if currents increasingly mix warm surface waters down to the seafloor.

This is a marine crocodilian, here a dyrosaurid, swimming in the warm surface waters during the end of the Cretaceous period.

But for reasons that are still not clear, this pattern is broken every three to seven years, when the winds and currents reverse and the warm surface waters spread east towards the Americas, taking the rain with them.

With an El Niño now under way — meaning warm surface waters in the Pacific are releasing heat into the atmosphere — and predicted to intensify, it looks as if the global average surface temperature could jump by around 0.1 °C in just one year.

The opposite occurred in 1997 and 1998, when warm surface waters in the Pacific Ocean brought about by El Niño pushed rainfall systems north, leaving parts of the southern and eastern Amazon forest dry and prone to fires.

Microbial consumption of oil, however, works best near the warm surface waters.

The drones can't come too soon for scientists who study the El Niño — Southern Oscillation, a set of shifting global temperature and rainfall patterns triggered by warm surface waters that slosh back and forth across the equatorial Pacific every few years.

«It may be that the cooler, deeper water in MCEs could be more hospitable to many species than the warmer surface water,» she said.

Unusually warm surface water in the Gulf of Mexico — about 2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal — may be a factor, he said.

During El Niño events, warmer surface water in the east Pacific Ocean changes the world's weather.

«The warming surface waters cause large parts of the lake's floor to lose oxygen, killing off bottom - dwelling animals such as freshwater snails,» Cohen said.

However, in their wake, hurricanes set up large - amplitude waves that mingle warm surface water with colder deep water, says climate scientist Matthew Huber of Purdue University.

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.

A new El Niño cycle — warmer surface waters — began last summer, which may mean that stratospheric water levels could change again.

They found that adding five years of strong trade winds created powerful ocean currents that buried the warm surface water, bringing cooler water to the surface.

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion A technology using the temperature difference between cold, deep ocean waters and warmer surface waters to generate electricity.

One result is a flow of cold deep water toward the equator and warm surface water toward the poles, and this «overturning circulation» plays a crucial role in moving heat around the globe.

«Cold, deep water from this little area of the Nordic seas, less than 1 % of the global ocean, travels the entire planet and returns as warm surface water.

In normal, non-El Niño conditions, Pacific trade winds near the equator blow from east to west, moving warm surface water with them.

OTEC is a relatively marginal alternative energy source that uses cold deep water and warm surface water to run the equivalent of a reverse fridge cycle.

Warming surface waters, however, absorb less oxygen.