Sentences with phrase «water depth increases»

These cause interesting, potentially stabilizing, feedbacks in models: if an ice shelf thins or retreats as the ocean or atmosphere warms, tidal currents can weaken as water depth increases, leading to lower melt rates.

Not exact matches

An in - depth report in 2010 from Worcester Polytechnic Institute that looked at the effects of three major oil spills found increased incidences of cancer and digestive problems in people who had ingested the oil directly (in drinking water) or indirectly (through eating the meat of livestock exposed to the oil).

Also, the depth of acidified waters was found to have increased, from approximately 325 feet to over 800 feet (or from 100 to 250 meters).

Sustained by gravity, they are long ocean waves that increase in amplitude (the tsunamis become larger) as water depth decreases.

This, in turn, will lower the depth and turbidity of water in mountain streams, increasing the amount of damaging ultraviolet light that reaches the stream beds.

Wave energy is greatest at the water's surface, decreasing rapidly with increasing depth.

One explanation (ix) conceived in the 1980s invokes more stratification, less upwelling of carbon and nutrient - rich waters to the surface of the Southern Ocean and increased carbon storage at depth during glacial times.

Berkeley Lab received these competitive awards from ARPA - E's Rhizosphere Observations Optimizing Terrestrial Sequestration (ROOTS) program, which seeks to develop crops that take carbon out of the atmosphere and store it in soil — enabling a 50 percent increase in carbon deposition depth and accumulation while also reducing nitrous oxide emissions by 50 percent and increasing water productivity by 25 percent.

As a general matter, yes, but AIUI the increasing height (depth) of the ice face is the key factor for accelerating retreat of these glaciers since it creates more surface area for the warm water to work on.

Another unique innovation on the Sport is the new Wade Sensing ™ feature that provides «depth» information when driving through water, made even more beneficial to the driver now that the Sport's maximum wading depth has increased by 150 mm over the previous model to 850 mm.

It may be helpful to vary the water level initially to find the level at which the cat will walk forward voluntarily; then increase the depth slowly to the desired level for therapeutic goals.

With each nautical mile south into the Agulhas current, both temperature and depth of the water increase and seabird numbers build up in quality and quantity.

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Think of the wave as a recirculating sphere that rotates towards the shore, as the seabed becomes gradually steeper and the depth of water decreases more of the waves energy is forced upwards towards the surface, gradually increasing the height of the wave.

Earthquakes are natural events and can not be stopped, although there is some evidence that lubrication with water can increase the likelihood of a quake («Earthquakes were induced by pumping water to increase the fluid pressure at depth....»).

MF says «Now looking at deep water, it is noticed that temperature at great depths appears to be independent of pressure brought about by the effects of gravity on a column of water, and actually decrease as pressure increases, to a limit independent of gravity, depth, pressure, or insolation.

Measuring the distance apart and speed of 2 satellites in space orbiting the earth to the width of a human hair with no margin for error [damn those drift recalculations], and taking into account unknown factors with respect to the true values for water depth, water weight at different salt concentrations, ice depth magma flows, volcanic activity etc [ie making a lot of guesses], plus taking human motivation on board [like CO2 increase must melt ice surely] can give you an accurate measurement of the volume ice in Antarctica.

Now looking at deep water, it is noticed that temperature at great depths appears to be independent of pressure brought about by the effects of gravity on a column of water, and actually decrease as pressure increases, to a limit independent of gravity, depth, pressure, or insolation.

The Antarctic ice sheet reached the coastline for the first time at ca. 33.6 Ma and became a driver of Antarctic circulation, which in turn affected global climate, causing increased latitudinal thermal gradients and a «spinning up» of the oceans that resulted in: (1) increased thermohaline circulation and erosional pulses of Northern Component Water and Antarctic Bottom Water; (2) increased deep - basin ventilation, which caused a decrease in oceanic residence time, a decrease in deep - ocean acidity, and a deepening of the calcite compensation depth (CCD); and (3) increased diatom diversity due to intensified upwelling.

3000 meter of ocean depth does not increase the temperature of water at bottom.

Currents that move through the upper ocean then dive down to depth may move some of the surface heat to the deeper waters, especially where the currents have dived not just from cooling water (hot water would tend to go up, cold water would tend to go down) but because it is driven in «conveyor» systems which may run counter to expectations of where water should go when considering only local conditions, and especially, if the water is dropping because of an increase in salinity.

When the trade winds falter — warm water piled high in the west surges eastward — ultimately increasing the depth of the thermocline on the eastern boundary and reducing upwelling.

In the Arctic, due to colder - than - average water temperatures, only about 200 m of water depth is required, which increases the vulnerability of those methane hydrates to a warming Arctic Ocean.

However, the hydrate stability zone thickness decreases to zero near the top of its depth range in the ocean, and an increase in water column temperature there could eliminate the stability zone entirely, potentially providing an easier pathway for methane to reach the sea floor.

I do not have a good impression from my limited reading, as to whether a global temperature increase of a postulated magnitude, in the atmosphere, will raise a nominated depth of water by a nominated number of degrees, and how rapidly.

In contrast, increased thaw depth and increased water - use efficiency under elevated CO2 will tend to increase available soil moisture, decreasing fire frequency and increasing woody biomass.

Drought stress could partially be counteracted by concurrent CO2 - induced enhanced water - use efficiency (Gerten et al., 2005), small regional increases in precipitation, and an increased depth of permafrost thawing.

Water depth has also increased, from 30 meters to 42 meters.

According to a report he co-authored, an increase in the depth of the Three Gorges» reservoir in 2006 led to a significant drop in Poyang's water level — a dynamic they say is being repeated today.

The amount of CO2 that can be held in water increases with depth as well.

Instead of warming the water down to a significant depth it rather serves to increase the evaporation rate and the heat is carried off the surface as latent heat of vaporization.

Along with my last comment: The results of Balmaseda (2013) doi: 10.1002 / grl.50382 showing increased heat uptake by deeper layers, coupled with the fact that thermal expansion coefficient of sea water decreases with depth e.g.

Consider that just moving some of the already warmer surface water to depth (while some upwelling of colder water occurs elsewhere as a compensation) results in an increasing heat content at depths while * simultaneously * producing a decrease in heat content at the surface.

As the water pressure decreased with depth, the carbon dioxide «fizzed» out of solution, forming an ever - increasing cloud of bubbles which entrained rising lake water.

At some point increasing density must lead to descending fingers of saline water which could be warmer than the surroundings, thus transferring heat to depth.

Instead the bath tub of water in the corner will show a temperature increase at depth instead.

Finds that the depth of acidified waters was found to have increased, from approximately 325 feet to over 800 feet (or from 100 to 250 meters)

The Arctic Ocean is highly stratified with a roughly 50 metre thick layer of cold relatively fresh water above a thermocline where the water temperature and salinity both increase with depth.