Sentences with phrase «warmer ocean temperatures throughout»

«Combined with warmer ocean temperatures throughout the year, this leads to a longer growing season and faster plankton growth rates.

Not exact matches

The water temperature was warmer than any place we've dived before, making it easy to be in and out of the ocean throughout the day.

However, we are only at the beginning of the melt in Antarctica — with temperatures now rising along the West Antarctic Ice Peninsula more rapidly that just about anywhere else on this earth, and warming throughout nearly all of the surrounding Southern Ocean.

Yet measurements from more than 3600 automated buoys throughout the ocean that dive down a mile and a quarter and take detailed temperature and salinity profiles every ten days show that the deeper strata are warming faster than the near - surface strata.

La Niña, on the other hand, occurs when the ocean's surface temperatures are cooler than usual, and can lead to warmer temperatures throughout the Southeast, and cooler temperatures in the Northwest.

The current bleaching event has affected reefs throughout the tropics — including much of the Pacific and parts of the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic and the Caribbean basin — and is largely thanks to the onset of a particularly severe El Niño event in 2015, which has resulted in unusually warm water temperatures in many regions.