Sentences with phrase «warming ocean and atmosphere»

The warming ocean and atmosphere that are already melting glaciers and ice sheets produce a catastrophic rise in the ocean.

Second, the quantity of methane necessary to explain the carbon isotope ratio, as calculated by Dickens, would be much less than that required to warm ocean and atmosphere temperatures to the extent estimated by PETM temperature proxies and calculated by physical climate models.

Warmer temperatures do not necessarily translate to more water vapour in an air - water vapour mixture, Chris please explain how «warmer the oceans and the atmosphere» equate to «more greenhouse effect from water vapour in the atmosphere.»

CHris O» What you are saying put «pretty simpl [y]» is «the warmer the oceans and the atmosphere [get] the more water vapor [the] more greenhouse effect from water vapor in the atmosphere.»

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.

Burning fossil fuels and other economic activities release greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere, and warm the ocean and atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Conditions are otherwise favorable for intensification through Sunday, with a moist atmosphere, light wind shear less than 10 knots, and very warm ocean waters near 30 °C (86 °F).

Science questions the answers, e.g. hurricanes are caused by warm moist ocean air being drawn up into the cooler atmosphere and creating a wind pattern though we are still open to consider other factors that may have influence on this cycle.

«The widespread loss of Antarctic ice shelves, driven by a warming ocean or warming atmosphere, could spell disaster for our coastlines — and there is sound geological evidence that supports what the models are telling us,» said Robert M. DeConto of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a co-author of the study and one of the developers of the ice - sheet model used.

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.

Co-author Hayley Hung, a scientist with Environment Canada's Air Quality Division who studies toxic organic pollutants in the Arctic, said that in recent years, researchers had posited that warmer conditions would liberate POPs stored in land, ice and ocean reservoirs back into the atmosphere.

The simulations also suggest that the removal of excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by natural processes on land and in the ocean will become less efficient as the planet warms.

Perhaps extra carbon dioxide from a period of heightened seafloor eruptions eventually percolates through the ocean and into the atmosphere, allowing warming that would deliver a coup de grâce to the massive ice sheets.

That region, he says, is susceptible to even small amounts of warming and cooling from the atmosphere — and how cold the water gets influences how much or how little it sinks, thereby driving or delaying, respectively, the ocean conveyer belt.

The planets of the TRAPPIST - 1 system could be complex worlds with volcanoes, atmospheres and warm subsurface oceans.

«There was relatively more carbon dioxide emitted from the deep ocean and released to the atmosphere as the climate warmed,» Jaccard says.

Bowen says the two relatively rapid carbon releases (about 1,500 years each) are more consistent with warming oceans or an undersea landslide triggering the melting of frozen methane on the seafloor and large emissions to the atmosphere, where it became carbon dioxide within decades.

«As the climate gets warmer, the thawing permafrost not only enables the release of more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, but our study shows that it also allows much more mineral - laden and nutrient - rich water to be transported to rivers, groundwater and eventually the Arctic Ocean,» explained Ryan Toohey, a researcher at the Interior Department's Alaska Climate Science Center in Anchorage and the lead author of the study.

That's greater than the warming rate of either the ocean or the atmosphere, and it can have profound effects, the scientists say.

The Indonesian archipelago sits in the Indo - Pacific Warm Pool, an expanse of ocean that supplies a sizable fraction of the water vapor in Earth's atmosphere and plays a role in propagating El Niño cycles.

That means studying changes in the Pliocene atmosphere, the land surface and most of all the oceans, which absorb the bulk of planetary warming.

The projected impacts of a warming atmosphere and oceans on the Earth's hydrological cycle — dry regions likely becoming drier, while wet ones become more wet — will likely exacerbate this already dire situation.

The next step was see how those factors were influenced by ENSO; while El Niños and La Niñas are defined by how much warmer or colder than normal tropical Pacific ocean waters are, they trigger a cascade of reactions in the atmosphere that can alter weather patterns around the globe.

But the local warming is just part of an intricate set of changes in the ocean and atmosphere across the tropical Pacific, which covers a third of the Earth's circumference.

The area boasts the world's warmest ocean temperatures and vents massive volumes of warm gases from the surface high into the atmosphere, which may shape global climate and air chemistry enough to impact billions of people worldwide.

The team chose the specific area examined in the study because it is Earth's warmest open ocean region and a primary source of heat and water vapor to the atmosphere.

Climate modeling shows that the trends of warming ocean temperatures, stronger winds and increasingly strong upwelling events are expected to continue in the coming years as carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere increase.

As the atmosphere warms, heat is transferred to the oceans, which causes water expansion and rising sea levels.

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.

But the models also suggest that the scheme could go too far: Adding excess sulfur could increase ice in Antarctica, «overcompensating» for warming, says Rasch, which could affect ecosystems and the global ocean - atmosphere system in a myriad of ways that scientists haven't studied.

In this sense, the ocean has acted as a buffer to slow down the greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere and, thus, global warming.

The list is long and familiar: too much carbon dioxide warming the atmosphere and acidifying the ocean; too much land being cleared, leading to deforestation and desertification; overfishing causing crashes in one stock after another; and habitat destruction reducing biodiversity so drastically that some consider a sixth mass extinction to be under way.

A study examined three different factors: warmer - than - usual surface atmosphere conditions (related to global warming); sea - ice thinning prior to the melting season (also related to global warming); and an August storm that passed over the Arctic, stirring up the ocean, fracturing the sea ice and sending it southward to warmer climes.

Understanding how carbon flows between land, air and water is key to predicting how much greenhouse gas emissions the earth, atmosphere and ocean can tolerate over a given time period to keep global warming and climate change at thresholds considered tolerable.

Prevailing scientific wisdom asserts that the deceleration of circulation diminishes the ocean's ability to absorb anthropogenic CO2 from the atmosphere as surface waters warm and become saturated with CO2.

«Loss of oxygen in the ocean is one of the serious side effects of a warming atmosphere, and a major threat to marine life,» said NCAR scientist Matthew Long, lead author of the study.

And the warming of the upper 2 kilometers of the world ocean — a huge heat sink relative to the atmosphere — continued apace through the 2000s.

A detailed, long - term ocean temperature record derived from corals on Christmas Island in Kiribati and other islands in the tropical Pacific shows that the extreme warmth of recent El Niño events reflects not just the natural ocean - atmosphere cycle but a new factor: global warming caused by human activity.

After it reaches streams and oceans, nitrogen molecules contribute to algal blooms and return to the air to warm the atmosphere and deplete stratospheric ozone.

El Niño — a warming of tropical Pacific Ocean waters that changes weather patterns across the globe — causes forests to dry out as rainfall patterns shift, and the occasional unusually strong «super» El Niños, like the current one, have a bigger effect on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

Some scientists are linking the phenomenon to warmer waters and ocean acidification caused by high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Only this time, the ocean is already much warmer and most importantly, the atmosphere seems to have finally gotten the memo, with the trade winds weakening.

While the planet's surface didn't warm as fast, vast amounts of heat energy continued to accumulate in the oceans and with the switch in the PDO, some of this energy could now spill back into the atmosphere.

It seems that the oceans have absorbed much heat over the summer but have relased it into the atmosphere which has caused the ocean to freeze quickly and oddly even though the atmosphere is warmer than usual.

Glacial melt and ocean warming, etc., result from, but take longer than, the warming in the atmosphere caused by the increased CO2.

Although the evidence was subsequently contested, some single - celled microbial life lacking a nucleus that segregates their internal DNA or RNA («prokaryotes») from the surrounding cytoplasm may have flourished in darkness within cracks in Earth's seafloor crust and around deep, warm or boiling hot ocean springs (hydrothermal or volcanic vents, such as at Lost City or at black smokers) without a need for light or free oxygen in the oceans or atmosphere.

They are seen in warming of the oceans, the land surface, and the lower atmosphere.

According to Dr. Kevin Trenberth at NCAR in Boulder, Colo., an increase in water vapor floating overhead, triggered by warming of the atmosphere and oceans, is already loading the dice.

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.

When all the heat accumulating in the oceans, warming the land and atmosphere and melting ice is tallied up, we see that global warming is still happening.