Sentences with phrase «warm water masses»

The change in location of the cold and warm water masses alters the path of the jet stream.

Some of the water though is presently observed to form giant (up to 300 km) eddies, that round the cape and transport warm water masses westwards into the Atlantic.

First of all, less sea ice is forming in the region, and secondly, oceanographic recordings from the continental shelf break confirm that the warm water masses are already moving closer and closer to the ice shelf in pulses,» says Dr Hartmut Hellmer, an oceanographer at the AWI and first author of the study.

Not exact matches

Not only do warmer waters cause bleaching of the living coral polyps that make up the mass, by leading them to expel the algae that give them color, but they have also led to an explosion in the numbers of a creature called the crown - of - thorns starfish.

In a large bowl, use a wooden spoon to mix together the flour, warm water, melted butter or olive oil, egg and salt until it comes together in a doughy mass.

As for the hard mass, you can try soaking your breast in a bowl of warm water with epsom salts for about 10 min prior to feeding.

A very cold but relatively fresh water layer covers a much warmer and saltier water mass, thus acting as an insulating layer,» explains Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif, head of the Research Division at GEOMAR.

James Castle and John Rodgers of Clemson University think that such algal blooms — triggered by warming water or an increase in nutrients — might be behind the five largest mass extinctions in Earth's history.

The unusually warm waters, which lingered for about a year and a half, have been linked to mass die - offs of birds, collapsed codfish populations in the Gulf of Alaska and altered weather patterns that brought drought to California.

Today, as warming waters caused by climate change flow underneath the floating ice shelves in Pine Island Bay, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is once again at risk of losing mass from rapidly retreating glaciers.

Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corals.

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The study also found that the warming of the upper 300 meters (roughly 1,000 feet) of the Northwest Atlantic increases salinity due to a change in water mass distribution related to a retreat of the colder, fresher Labrador Current and a northerly shift of the warmer, saltier Gulf Stream.

Persistent mass of warm water is reshuffling ocean currents, marine ecosystems, and inland weather.

The argument is that the increased separation of the Antarctic land mass from South America led to the creation of the powerful Antarctic Circumpolar Current which acted as a kind of water barrier and effectively blocked the warmer, less salty waters from the North Atlantic and Central Pacific from moving southwards towards the Antarctic land mass leading to the isolation of the Antarctic land mass and lowered temperatures which allowed the ice sheets to form.

minus 2 degrees Celsius, has protected the shelf from the inflow of water masses that are 0.8 degrees warm, which the Weddell Gyre transports along the edge of the continental shelf (see graphic).

Anyone who accepts that sunlight falling on ice free waters which has less reflectivity than sunlight falling on a large ice mass covering those waters and also accepts that this reduction in albedo has a positive feedback effect, leading to further warming, can't help but opt for A or B, it seems to me.

I wonder if the warm and cold water masses could be considered a Ocean blocking pattern, and btw Hansen etal.

Partly in response to the winds of the Walker circulation, warm water in the western Pacific creates storms that send a mass of warm air east, up and over the trade winds.

Recent research suggests that pollution and warmer waters have raised the risk of mass die - offs in other tropical reefs.

After just one day of aerial surveys, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, which oversees the region, has already confirmed that warm waters are causing another mass bleaching.

The warm Coral Sea waters have fueled the worst mass coral bleaching ever recorded on the World Heritage - listed reefs, which are withering from warming and acidifying waters, coral - eating pests and agricultural pollution.

By contributing to water over-consumption, carbon emissions, and global warming, mass production of livestock is slowly killing our planet.

The inversion itself is usually initiated by the cooling effect of the water on the surface layer of an otherwise warm air mass.

Fog in the channel is caused by a large, warm air mass passing over cool water.

11) In Pacific Ocean Heat Content During The Past 10,000 Years Rosenthal 2013 found Pacific water masses that were ~ 0.65 ° warmer than in recent decades.

In Pacific Ocean Heat Content During The Past 10,000 Years Rosenthal 2013 found Pacific water masses that were ~ 0.65 ° warmer than in recent decades.

Partly this has to do with changes in ocean circulation taking warmer water deeper and partly as the result of the southern hemisphere having less land mass and more ocean — where the ocean has a higher thermal inertia, meaning that it takes longer for those waters to warm.

One Anonymous Bloke — The ice mass doesn't act so much as a cooling «force» as it does as a lid covering or insulating warmer water.

The smaller the lid gets — because warmer water is eating away at its edges and its underside — the more that warmer water is exposed to the local air mass, the less that air is cooled by contact with ice.

In 8 years nearly all Peru's glaciers will be gone due to global warming and its 27 million people will nearly all lack fresh water, with the likely result being: «chaos, conflict and mass migration».

al) suggest radiative loss to space, but they also include references relating to warming bottom water, deepening tropical gyre warm bowls, and increased mass loss from the Antarctic and Geenland ice sheets.

And, is the diminished new ice a function of warmer air masses crossing open water in the early winter months?

It stands to reason that the oceans haven't been that warm in a while but since the average temperature of the whole mass of water is so dependent on circulation (it's only the surface temperature that's constrained by its interactions with the atmosphere and space), I suppose a plausible history of that particular value would be very hard to reconstruct.

Alternatively, if a deepening of the subtropical gyres gives rise to an increase in the heat stored in this water mass, with a corresponding non-zero trend in the surface heat flux; then I should think that a restoration towards conditions of the past must somehow give rise to a delayed warming of the atmosphere (if the surplus is not somehow lost to space).

These are large rotating masses of water, in each ocean basin, where ocean currents converge at their centre and are forced downwards, taking warm surface water with them.

Seems to me the debate about AGHG global warming and increasing TC frequency / intensity / duration boils down to the fact that as sea surface temperatures, as well as deeper water temperatures rise, the wallop of any TC over warmer seas without mitigating circumstances like wind sheer and dry air off land masses entrained in the cyclone will likely be much more devastating.

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In an article on Yale 360 Environment, Veron writes that the major issues include mass bleachings caused by warmer water, which kills off zooxanthellae, the algae with which coral have a symbiotic relationship, and ocean acidification.

We recently experienced a mass fish die off with thousands of dead fish washing up on our beaches because of the hot water, and the giant Australian cuttlefish, which breeds in the gulf waters near Adelaide, has undergone a catastrophic 90 % decline in numbers over the past few years because the waters are too warm for them to breed.

This mass of warm water, nicknamed «the Blob,» was the result of a persistent atmospheric high - pressure ridge in the Northeastern Pacific that decreased cooling and transport of surface water.

We know from satellite measurements that the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets (GIS and WAIS respectively) are losing mass in response to global warming, and that, in the case of the partly sea - based West Antarctica ice - sheet, basal melting of the ice by warmer ocean - water is likely to be a key mechanism.

(Warming waters from Baffin Bay have driven through the ice in the Jakobshavn Fjord and are now boring into the thicker ice masses of Jakobshavn Ibrae.

What we do not see in this image, but what clearly happened, was that an ice mass hundreds of meters tall and covering an area of about 12.5 square kilometers was shattered into flinders as warming ocean waters invaded the Greenland Ice Sheet.

A large area of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is also losing mass, probably because of warmer water deep in the ocean near the Antarctic coast.

The continued reduction of warm water inflows and the dramatic reduction of lost ice mass in 2014, now suggest the glaciers are no longer adjusting to the previous warm water intrusions.

Warm tropical water forced by tides and Coriolis effect into a bottleneck created by a land mass funnel causes a small sensible energy fluctuation that drives folks absolutely nuts trying to figure it out.

The people of Earth need fresh water and we all need to be more concerned about having more of it, even it takes more energy to make it or having to listen to the fearmongering of Leftist opinion - makers like Obama and Kerry who claim respectively that, «no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,» and, that global warming is, «perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.»

Most of the deep ocean warming is occurring in the subtropical ocean gyres - vast rotating masses of water in each ocean basin where near - surface currents converge and are forced downward into the ocean interior.

Reduced mixing with relatively warmer sub-surface waters effectively reduces the thermal mass exposed to the cold Antarctic air - slightly more ice forms.