Sentences with phrase «warmer ocean water where»

From your link: «In some instances, bright red spots or streaks along the edge of the continent show where icebergs calved or ice shelves disintegrated, meaning the satellite began seeing warmer ocean water where there had previously been ice.»

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«Harvey passed through an area where there was warm water all the way down to the bottom of the ocean,» Kithil said.

Forming in the system's colder outer regions, where volatile compounds such as water and carbon dioxide freeze out, makes it possible that the planets incorporated those ices and carried them along to a warmer place where they could melt, evaporate, and become oceans and atmospheres.

And around Antarctica, where even the surface ocean water is already quite cold and dense, some of that water in the ocean depths, which is also carbon rich, eventually warmed enough so that it became less dense than the water above it.

If you decouple that ice from where it's grounded — something that currents of warming water, already circulating around the Antarctic coast, could do — then water could flow beneath the inland ice and lubricate its slide into the ocean.

As the oceans have warmed and the climate has changed, hotspots are developing in regions where the currents that transport warm tropical waters towards the poles are strengthening.

The researchers find that «ocean - driven melt is an important driver of Antarctic ice shelf retreat where warm water is in contact with shelves, but in high greenhouse - gas emissions scenarios, atmospheric warming soon overtakes the ocean as the dominant driver of Antarctic ice loss.»

It's unclear whether this year's strong El Niño event, which is a naturally occurring phenomenon that typically occurs every two to seven years where the surface water of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean warms, has had any impact on the Arctic sea ice minimum extent.

If the water remained in the channel, the water would eventually cool to a point where it was not melting much ice, but the channels allow the water to flow out to the open ocean and warmer water to flow in, again melting the ice shelf from beneath.

Researchers today know that the oceans continued to be relatively warm during the Pliocene era, though there has been some uncertainty where waters were warmest.

Low - lying coastal regions like Chile's are subject to advection fog, where warm ocean air crosses a band of cold water before reaching land.

This shift strengthens the ocean currents that bring warm, salty water to the surface, where it accelerates the melting of Antarctic ice.

Where the face of a glacier meets the ocean, warm water can melt it

The warming of the oceans by sunlight, makes the daytime surface waters more bouyant than the cooler waters below and this leads to stratification - a situation where the warmer water floats atop cooler waters underneath, and is less inclined to mix.

The Channel is an oceanographic transition zone where the cold waters north of Point Conception mix with the warm waters of Southern California, resulting in a complex system of water currents and a diversity of northern and southern ocean species.

This morning we were heading 1 1/2 hours south to the open expanse at the tip of Dall Island where the nutrient - rich, cold waters of the ocean meet the warmer waters of the archipelago's many inlets.

The original fishing settlement of Fish Hoek retains the unspoilt charm of a small community, where the warm waters of the Indian Ocean have created white sandy beaches and safe swimming.

Always beckoning are the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean, where it's not uncommon to see dolphins join the surfers off the rocky points.

The warm welcome sets the tone for your stay at the five - star Rancho Palo Verdes resort, where the ocean plays an integral part — from the stunning restaurant views and spa treatments to the water activities and unique culinary program.

Imagine a myriad of islands and atolls bathed by the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, where every minute is a moment stolen from paradise: welcome to honeymoon in Maldives.

Imagine a myriad of islands and atolls bathed by the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, where every minute is a moment stolen from paradise: welcome to Maldives.

Come explore the mysteries of nature and the ocean in Tulum, and idyllic vacation destination where you can stroll white sandy beaches and bathe in the soothing warm waters of the Caribbean.

The abundant waters off the coast of Cabo San Lucas — located at the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula, where the calm and warm waters of the Sea of Cortez mixes with the unfathomable cool currents of the Pacific Ocean — offer the ideal conditions for plenty of sport - fish species, including (among others) Rooster Fish, Mahi Mahi (known locally as Dorado), varieties of Tuna, Sharks, Jacks, Groupers, and Billfish such as Sailfish, Swordfish, Black Marlin, Blue Marlin and Striped Marlin.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)

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.

There is also a phenomenon called La Niña («the girl»)-- the extreme opposite of El Niño — where easterly winds are especially strong and the warm waters of the South Pacific are confined to the western edge of the ocean.

You'll find, just as examples: ``... another — possibly substantial — source of energy for mixing that's generated in the ocean where cold, heavy water collides with warm, light water.

There is so little understanding about how the ocean parses its response to forcings by 1) suppressing (local convective scale) deep water formation where excessive warming patterns are changed, 2) enhancing (local convective scale) deep water formation where the changed excessive warming patterns are co-located with increased evaporation and increased salinity, and 3) shifting favored deep water formation locations as a result of a) shifted patterns of enhanced warming, b) shifted patterns of enhanced salinity and c) shifted patterns of circulation which transport these enhanced ocean features to critically altered destinations.

The ocean conveyor gets its «start» in the Norwegian Sea, where warm water from the Gulf Stream heats the atmosphere in the cold northern latitudes.

I have to raise an objection to the phrase «the only region of the world that has defied global warming» — that might be neglecting a certain area in the Pacific where England 2014 has identified a very obvious point where the «Pacific conveyor» was bringing in the last decade up a lot of cold water from the deep ocean and has possibly played a major role in the specific trends for that period.

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.

Lawrence, yes, the accumulation of heat in the oceans is the primary metric of global warming, but it's distributed unevenly, and we don't know how much of it will be diluted in cold waters and how much, when and where it will be released to the atmosphere.

Consenquently, the associated SST pattern is slightly cooler in the deep convection upwelling regions of the Equitorial Pacific and the Indian Ocean, strongly cooler in the nearest deep convection source region of the South Atlantic near Africa and the Equator, warm over the bulk of the North Atlantic, strongly warmer where the gulf stream loses the largest portion of its heat near 50N 25W, and strongly cooler near 45N 45W, which turns out to be a back - eddy of the Gulf Stream with increased transport of cold water from the north whenever the Gulf Stream is running quickly.

Now scientists have measured a rapid recent expansion of desert - like barrenness in the subtropical oceans --- in places where surface waters have also been steadily warming.

Instead, they discuss new ways of playing around with the aerosol judge factor needed to explain why 20th - century warming is about half of the warming expected for increased in GHGs; and then expand their list of fudge factors to include smaller volcanos, stratospheric water vapor (published with no estimate of uncertainty for the predicted change in Ts), transfer of heat to the deeper ocean (where changes in heat content are hard to accurately measure), etc..

The warmer the ocean becomes, the less water rises from deeper down, meaning fewer resources will be brought to the surface water where phytoplankton live.

A greater - than - normal volume of warm salty tropical water was transported north with the current and this was drawn down into the ocean in the region around 60 ° N - where dense water sinking occurs.

The dense salt - laden warmer water sinls to the bottom of the ucean where its movement is impeded by the hill's and valley's of the ocean floor.

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.

Since the whole world does not appear to freeze during a ice age, the must be massive ice making going at the pole driven by heat lifting oceans of water to the sky from the equator where it is pushed by the expanding air and vapor to the poles areas where it returns to the surface and follows cold land like a culvert between warmer expanding ocean air back down to the equatoral region.

As you say «Simples» Think of the ocean as an open pot of warm water with constant heat input (TSI) at a level where water is held at constant temperature by evaporation and internal convection.

Their mission: find vulnerabilities where warmer (but still near freezing) water from the deep ocean may be seeping in under the ice shelf and melting it from below.

Some of the warm water would be subducted by Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation / Thermohaline Circulation, some would be carried by ocean currents into the Arctic Ocean where it would melt sea ice, and the remainder would be spun southward by the North Atlantic gyre toward the tropics so it could be warmed more by the effects of the slower - than - normal trade wocean currents into the Arctic Ocean where it would melt sea ice, and the remainder would be spun southward by the North Atlantic gyre toward the tropics so it could be warmed more by the effects of the slower - than - normal trade wOcean where it would melt sea ice, and the remainder would be spun southward by the North Atlantic gyre toward the tropics so it could be warmed more by the effects of the slower - than - normal trade winds.

Here how it works: Think of the ocean as an open pot of warm water with constant heat input (TSI) at a level where water is held at constant temperature by evaporation and internal convection.

In their reconstruction of 20th century temperatures, the 2k team found clear warming in every region except Antarctica, where warming may have been slowed by the surrounding ocean waters.

Despite higher than normal surface temperatures and heat contents of ocean waters where the storms developed, evidence is lacking that global warming is revving them up.

Scientists in New York are blaming global warming for upsetting the Nenana Ice Competition stating that a recent navel survey clearly indicated that the heat energy that would normally cause the river to release its life giving waters to the downstream environment had been redirected to deep ocean sequestation where it was being used by the oil industry to kill sharks.

The heat arrives from the Atlantic Ocean that moves warm water along northern Norway and western Spitsbergen where the ocean is ice - free despite freezing air temperatures even during the months of total darkness during the polar nOcean that moves warm water along northern Norway and western Spitsbergen where the ocean is ice - free despite freezing air temperatures even during the months of total darkness during the polar nocean is ice - free despite freezing air temperatures even during the months of total darkness during the polar night.

That's the same area where the AMO creates warmer waters and boosts ocean heat content, in the central and eastern Atlantic.