Sentences with phrase «warmer oceans hold»

Whatever happens to the isotope ratio the fact is that warmer oceans hold less CO2 and colder oceans hold more CO2.

And of course, the issue of the consistent rise in the best metric of Earth's energy balance - ocean heat content and the closely related sea level rise, get's ignored as though, through some miracle, a warming ocean holding in the bulk of the anthropogenic energy imbalance gives we troposphere dwelling creatures a free pass.

And really, warmer oceans holding less co2, I agree with that, then how are you explaining the the sinks that are currently, by official standards, pulling out 1 and half times more co2 than all that was produced in 1965?

Likewise even as the globe warms now, some of the contribution is from this chemistry effect of warmer oceans holding CO2 less efficiently, so maybe 10 ppm is also contributed by the degree of warming, but the other 100 + ppm is from emissions.

The warming oceans hold less CO2, so the CO2 in the atmosphere increases, which leads to even more warming, which melts the ice and snow more, and so on.

Not exact matches

Increasing heat is also warming up the ocean, and hotter air holds onto more moisture, increasing the available energy for hurricanes.

Warm ocean waters, driven inland by winds, are undercutting an ice shelf that holds back a vast glacier from sliding into the ocean, researchers report November 1 in Science Advances.

Schimdt has found evidence that warm ocean currents and convective forces beneath Europa's frozen shell can cause large blocks of ice to overturn and melt, bringing vast pockets of water, sometimes holding as much liquid as all of the Great Lakes combined, to within several kilometers of the moon's icy surface.

Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

A commonly held belief that global warming will diminish oxygen concentrations in the ocean looks like it may not be entirely true.

Scientific research suggests that global warming causes heavier rainfall because a hotter atmosphere can hold more moisture and warmer oceans evaporate faster feeding the atmosphere with more moisture.

Global - change scientists might move a coral from a reef to an aquarium whose water is held 1 °C higher to test the effects of the ocean warming predicted for the end of the century.

The observed fact that temperatures increases slower over the oceans than over land demonstrates that the large heat capacity of the ocean tries to hold back the warming of the air over the ocean and produces a delay at the surface but nevertheless the atmosphere responds quit rapidly to increasing greenhouse gases.

These strong, constant winds push and drag the warm surface water westward, «piling» it up and holding it in the western Pacific Ocean basin.

The oceans hold the story of a planet warming as fossil fuels are burned.

Higher temperatures lead to more evaporation from lakes, rivers and oceans, and warmer air can hold more moisture.

Seems this might hold for larger scale events, such as the arctic ice melting (i.e., there would be more warming in the arctic ocean in our current times, except some of the «warming» energy is going into the melting process rather than warming).

This makes sense because the oceans are the primary source of CO2, and they hold more CO2 when cool than when warm.

This warming is less than it will ultimately be, because the cool ocean surface holds back the warming — allowing more energy loss out the bottom than will ultimately be the case.

[UPDATE 3/6, 1 p.m.:] Isaac Held, a climate modeler at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J., responded today with some caution about seeking relationships between the ocean and atmospheric changes around the tropics, and also drawing conclusions about their relationship to global warming.

The researchers found that reefs in the warmest part of the Pacific Ocean — holding some of the most diverse coral arrays on Earth — have not been adversely affected as global ocean and atmospheric temperatures have risen since Ocean — holding some of the most diverse coral arrays on Earth — have not been adversely affected as global ocean and atmospheric temperatures have risen since ocean and atmospheric temperatures have risen since 1980.

In time, as the temperature rises, even the oceans may become net emitters as the warmer upper layers lose their capacity to hold the carbon dioxide which they have already absorbed.

Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

In addition the warming oceans — which hold heat for longer than land masses — generate pathways for warm air invasions of the Arctic during Winter time.

Warmer air holds more water vapour so that warmer air will extract more vapour from the ocean surface thereby cooling the ocean surWarmer air holds more water vapour so that warmer air will extract more vapour from the ocean surface thereby cooling the ocean surwarmer air will extract more vapour from the ocean surface thereby cooling the ocean surface..

This squares with the reality that the oceans hold the vast majority of the Earth's carbon, and when the oceans warm, they release some of their gases into the atmosphere.

The record warm sea surface and atmosphere held a never before seen excess of water vapor and moisture in suspension — primarily over the Equatorial Ocean zones.

Coby, if the earth is warming as a result of increased periodic solar activity (or some other more complex reason) as suggested by the long term cycles mentioned above measured before man was on earth or industrialized, is it posssible that the observed increases in CO2 in the atmosphere are simply coming from warmer oceans, since liquids can not hold as much gas at a higher temperature than they can at lower temperature?

When the ocean warms up, it can hold less of it and releases it to the air.

Plankton is largest CO2 absorber, but also oceans are near or largest (by far largest in the more distant past) CO2 emitters, so if CO2 happen to be an important factor than: High UV / radiation = reduction in plankton = less CO2 absorbed = warming, reverse holds true.

As the ocean warms up it begins to release the CO2 it was holding when it was cold.

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.

For example, because the mass balance argument says nothing about absolute numbers or attribution it may be that we are also — for example — destroying carbon - fixing plankton, reducing the breaking of waves and hence mechanical mixing with the upper ocean, releasing methane in the tundra which was previously held by acid rain and which can now be converted to CO2, or it may be we are just seeing a deep current, a tiny bit warmer than usual because of the MWP, heating deep ocean clathrate so that methanophage bacteria can devour it and give off CO2.

He examines air / ocean equilibrium (plankton binding CO2, sinking it into the water), temperature feedback (warmer water holds less CO2), CaCO3 cycle equilibrium (calcium carbonate binding), and silicate weathering.

In addition, if permafrost melts, releasing its long - held carbon dioxide or methane into the atmosphere, and methane hydrates at the bottom of the continental shelves of the Arctic Ocean are destabilized, there could be highly accelerated warming.

Now the oceans in the tropics is the warmest average temperature and holds the most heat energy.

Overall, the review affirms the widely held opinions that the Arctic Ocean is freshening, warming, and losing sea ice.

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.

Both NASA GISS and NOAA NCEI use NOAA's ERSST.v4 «pause buster» data for the ocean surface temperature components of their combined land - ocean surface temperature datasets, and, today, both agencies are holding a multi-agency press conference to announce their «warmest ever» 2016 global surface temperature findings.

Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice...

It seems clear enough from evidence of the geologic past that before the earth started ringing like a bell every 120K years from glacial to interglacial with the former dominating the other 10:1 in persistence, the Eocene optimum 50 million years ago the earth was ice - free, green from pole to pole, it was about 11F warmer overall, with the most dramatic warming in the highest latitudes (right where you'd want it if you could ask for it), and atmspheric CO2 was several times what it is today, which makes sense in light of much warmer global ocean not able to hold as much CO2.

Pretty simple, the warmer the oceans and the atmosphere, the faster water evaporates from the oceans and the more water vapor the atmosphere can hold = > more greenhouse effect from water vapor in the atmosphere.

CO2 acts there as a feedback, with warmer / colder oceans holding less / more CO2, and changing CO2 concentrations along with (lagging) temperature changes induced by (forced by) insolation changes due to orbital mechanics.

Warmer air and ocean temperatures have caused the glacier to detach from a stabilizing sill and retreat rapidly along a downward - sloping, marine - based bed... After 8 years of decay of its ice shelf, Zachariæ Isstrøm, a major glacier of northeast Greenland that holds a 0.5 - meter sea - level rise equivalent, entered a phase of accelerated retreat in fall 2012.

The upper 3 meters of the world's oceans hold more heat than the entire atmosphere, so continual ventilation of just 10 meters of warmer subsurface water will affect the global average for decades.

Their finding gives teeth to the long - held prediction that freshwater runoff into the ocean would increase in the Arctic as a result of global warming.

Scientists have long known that increasing ocean temperatures can lead to more ocean dead zones as warmer water holds less oxygen.

So, ocean thermal inertia should scare us for the warming that gets held «in the pipe», but it should not be a source of LTP - related skepticism on the estimated magnitude of the GHG sensitivity parameter?

except we've measured the deep ocean temperatures and found that those waters are holding the increased warming during one of the natural warming / cooling cycles.

HS12 assume that deep ocean temperature change was similar to global mean surface temperature change for Cenozoic climates warmer than today, but this relationship does not hold true for colder climates.