Sentences with phrase «warming oceanic waters»

Hidden layers of warming oceanic waters, snaking around the coast of Greenland and Antarctica, could drive forward the melting of their glaciers faster than previously predicted.

Temperature effects are also quite reliable, and are mainly for above normal temperature in and around the warmed oceanic waters in the Pacific.

Not exact matches

As global warming affects the earth and ocean, the retreat of the sea ice means there won't be as much cold, dense water, generated through a process known as oceanic convection, created to flow south and feed the Gulf Stream.

Note that Ekman pumping does not penetrate deep into the oceanic interior, but since the trades advect the surface waters westward, the upper layer of warm sea water is deeper in the west than in the east.

An abrupt warming of oceanic intermediate waters could have initiated the thermal destabilization of sediment - hosted methane gas hydrates and potentially triggered sediment slumps and slides.

Occurring offshore in blue oceanic waters, the blue marlin prefers to stay in the warm waters near the surface, above the thermocline.

The shallow oceanic shelf and warm waters near Puerto López create perfect conditions for the whales to rest and raise newborn calves.

The TAO project allows scientists to monitor warm water volume which tends to lead oceanic Niño indices by around 7 months, however...

Note that Ekman pumping does not penetrate deep into the oceanic interior, but since the trades advect the surface waters westward, the upper layer of warm sea water is deeper in the west than in the east.

It is possible that Lyman is measuring a transfer of oceanic heat from warm waters to cool waters through circulation changes than increased retention of solar energies?

Ocean serves as the memory whereby slow oceanic Rossby waves and Kelvin waves propagate through the basin and affect the depth of the oceanic surface layer of warm water.

This is what happens in our model events pictured above: during cold phases in Greenland, oceanic convection only occurs in latitudes well south of Greenland, but during a DO event convection shifts into the Greenland - Norwegian seas and warm and saline Atlantic waters push northward.

The study found that major hot spots for large marine predators are the California Current, which flows south along the U.S. west coast, and a trans - oceanic migration highway called the North Pacific Transition Zone, which connects the western and eastern Pacific on the boundary between cold sub-arctic water and warmer subtropical water — about halfway between Hawaii and Alaska.

This rise may have been eustatically controlled, possibly through a combination of thermal expansion of the oceanic water column and melting of unknown sources of high - altitude or polar ice caps in response to global warming.»

There is absolutely no reason to believe that this effect will do anything but get stronger from here on as the vast «crops» of oceanic bacteria adapt to both warmer ocean waters and increased CO2 and nutrient levels and simply increasingly cool the global atmospheric climate simply by «growing faster»!

A strengthening ACC created a barrier inhibiting intrusions of warm tropical waters and minimizing both oceanic and atmospheric heat transport resulting in the Refrigerator Effect.

Likewise the oceanic mixed layer (the top one or two hundred meters of water that is roughly constant in temperature compared to deeper down, due to wave - induced mixing in that layer) delays global warming but does not stop it.

Its cause was oceanic — warm water carried across the Pacific by the super El Nino.

Causality is always tricky to assign in cases such as this one, since it's entirely possible that the ridging itself has led to warm surface water though decreased oceanic mixing by wind and unusually high air temperatures.

The persistent upwelling of cold water in the eastern tropical Pacific would have reduced cloud cover there, via reduced oceanic evaporation, and thus allowed more of the sun's energy to enter the tropical ocean - this would have aided the ocean warming process, as generally the case when the tropical ocean is cooler - than - normal.

Di Lorenzo et al. (2010) presents evidence of the unique impacts of Central Pacific (CPAC) El Niño events (i.e., El Niño episodes when the warmest waters are located in the central tropical Pacific) on the Northern Hemisphere atmospheric and oceanic circulation on interannual and decadal time scales.

Most of the actual warming of oceanic water comes from its absorption of visible light and UV and short wavelength IR at depth.

Our findings require a reassessment of the role of the Southern Ocean in determining the impact of atmospheric warming on deep oceanic waters.

Recent observational surveys have shown significant oceanic bottom - water warming.

During the six years of in - situ measurements, an oceanic warming of 0.77 ± 0.11 Wm − 2 occurred in the upper 2000m depth of the water column.

Figure 2 - B suggests that since 1979 there has been a jump of at most 0.3 °C during the great El Niño of 1997 - 98; (see figure 15 - A showing that El Niño paces the global temperatures as the water of the warm pool is redistributed to the oceanic surface layer at higher latitudes).

At the same time, they point towards below normal ice extent in the Barents / Kara Sea, also compared to the record minimum in 2007, which they see coupled to oceanic processes and promoting further warming of surface waters in the region.

Because of the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the oceanic «conveyor belt» that sends warmer waters into the North Atlantic could abruptly shut down.

Global warming could have especially strong impacts on the regions of oceanic subpolar fronts, where the temperature increase in deep water could lead to a substantial redistribution of pelagic and benthic communities, including commercially important fish species.

Upwelling of deep oceanic waters along continental margins release large concentrations of CO2, as the rising water warms and CO2 stability in water diminishes releasing the gas back into the atmosphere.

As Arctic Ice decreases it exposes more warm water from the tropics carried up by the oceanic conveyor belt.

This implies that hurricane intensity increase due to a possible global warming associated with increased CO2 is considerably smaller than that expected from warming of the oceanic waters alone.»

The temperature regime is very different to onshore permafrost and deeper oceanic hydrates, and sensitive to warming of the shallow coastal waters over the ESAS.