A good way to estimate the effect of the thermohaline part of the heat transport is to shut it down by dumping a lot of freshwater into the north Atlantic in a climate model, which stops deep
water formation there.
Not exact matches
Carr says
there are other regions on Mars with similar plate
formations, meaning this might not be the only subterranean
water.
That voltage is also higher than what is needed to induce the cobalt to precipitate out of the solution and form the cobalt phosphide catalyst, which means when the bionic leaf is running
there are always enough electrons around to induce the catalyst's
formation — and therefore no excess metal left to poison the microbes or bring the bionic leaf's
water - splitting to a halt.
There they would be able to observe several important processes — the
formation of new seafloor, volcanic eruptions, the movement of nutrients from deep to shallow
waters, and earthquakes.
It also suggests that
there was no permafrost in the Lena River region at that time, because enough
water seeped into the northernmost cave to enable roughly eight centimeters of growth in the
formations.
As a result,
there is temporary
formation of protonated
water molecules with three protons.
«
There are many things that feed into a planet's habitability — its atmosphere, its history, its
water content — and those things can go all the way back to the details of its
formation....
The ice
formation and offshore winds produce strong currents in these shallow marginal seas, which stir up the sediment and carry the methane produced
there into the
water column.
Then
there's the vitamin C, which will enhance collagen
formation and deactivate
water - soluble free radicals.
There are various additives you can add to your pet's drinking
water that can reduce tartar
formation.
There are several islands off the coast with rock
formations, beautiful cliffs and clear
water.
There's a
water park for the kids and the delightful rock
formations for those with a slightly more adult sense of humour.
Reaching a maximum depth of 50 + meters these giant boulder
formations are home to a mind boggling variety of marine life, underwater canyons, and massive caverns.But wait, it doesn't end
there as the east coast of the islands provides a completely different and distinct under
water landscape.
The archipelago is enormous and
there are some areas where soft corals and sea fans dominate, other areas with astounding hard coral
formations, sea grass beds, mangroves, shallow reefs, drop offs, caves, black sand, white sand, vertical walls, seamount's, ship wrecks, planes, shallow
water lagoons, and massive pinnacles.
There are easy explorations of house reefs that begin right at resort beaches; boat trips to
formations where small finds await in the crevices; and dramatic walls and fish - filled channels where big animals pass by in the blue
water.
There are also two cave systems, one of them is made of spring
water and has many
formations and the other one has a river flowing through it and both are situated at just a few minutes away from the lodge.
Note only are
there dramatic rock
formations, on my visit
there was a pod of 25 dolphins frolicking in the clear
water below.
Entering the Rum Point area
there are several hidden beaches underneath the bluff that hold pristine coral
formations in shallow
waters.
But it was beautiful — the
water was turquoise blue and
there were beautiful rock
formations all over.
There are four beaches within two miles, from Holoholokai and its striking lava
formations and petroglyphs to Pauoa Bay and its calm
waters and golden sand.
Artists working in «Nature,» a term which should be understood in quotes post-Smithson, are still investigating the casting of indeterminate natural
formations and the aesthetics of ruination, yet
there is a technical craftiness to «Casting
Water» which undermines what one assumes to be its effort to be ugly.
But setting the dead zones aside,
there is also the fact that the ocean
water is becoming more acidic, more corrosive, making the shell -
formation your biological pump depends upon another endangered species.
There is also a third process, whereby during gas hydrate
formation, gas hydrate can separate free gas from surrounding
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.
In particular is
there an observed or predicted change in the temperature or volume of mode
waters (or rates of deep
water formation)?
On the other hand,
there are many > hundreds, if not thousands, of publications by dendrochronologists > implicitly claiming that they do understand the biology of wood
formation, > as they have used their data to imagine when past regimes of
water, > temperature, pollutants, CO2, soil nutrients, and so forth existed.
Moreover,
there are two main kinds of geological
formation that can be used for CO2 storage: depleted oil and gas fields, and saline aquifers (groundwater bodies whose salt content makes them unsuitable for drinking
water or agriculture).
As
there is to this day no body of knowledge that I know of about the
formation of clouds, with their concomitant negative feedbacks, caused by this
water vapour I smelled a rat.
It also appears that
there are decreasing rates of bottom
water formation; that means that oxygen input to the deep ocean is probably decreasing... is it possible that we could be pushing the global oceans towards a state where bottom
water anoxia is much more prevalent?
In RCP2.6,
there is a complete recovery of the Atlantic overturning stream function by the year 2500 while with scenario RCP8.5, the E2 - R climate model produces a complete shutdown of deep
water formation in the North Atlantic.
To oceanographers, particularly those studying bottom
water formation and transport,
there is almost nothing more exciting than this prospect.
When
there is a balance between
formation and dissolution of those minerals, the
water is said to be saturated with respect to that mineral, and saturation is represented by the omega symbol (Ω).
It emphasises that
there is a strong internal relationship between the
formation, stability and extent of sea ‐ ice and the structure of the upper layer of the Arctic ocean: it is the relative area and depth of low - salinity arctic
water above the halocline that are paramount to ice
formation and its summer survival.
Implied in this assumption that the
water vapor will just stay
there and will not move, precipitate aor contribute to cloud
formation.
In reality (based on observations), warming of the lower atmosphere pulls
water vapor away from those higher cloud - forming levels of the atmosphere, and the amount of cloud
formation there actually decreases.
[*) Another contributing factor to a dominantly positive phase for the NAO index is current and expected SST anomaly, with relatively cold
waters west of the Azores, favouring high pressure build - up
there, and relatively warm
waters off the US - Canadian east coast, favouring northerly Atlantic depression
formation (especially during offshore winds).]
The Otter Creek project by French power developer Boralex is proposed to be built on the same geologic
formation and
there are questions as to whether it could also create
water problems.
For geological
formations where
there are multiple barriers at different depths, an alternative combined system could see hot
water removed from the thermal aquifer and carbon dioxide pumped in.
If
there is deep -
water formation in the final steady state as in the present day, the ocean will eventually warm up fairly uniformly by the amount of the global average surface temperature change (Stouffer and Manabe, 2003), which would result in about 0.5 m of thermal expansion per degree celsius of warming, calculated from observed climatology; the EMICs in Figure 10.34 indicate 0.2 to 0.6 m °C — 1 for their final steady state (year 3000) relative to 2000.
How credible is it that someone could walk across a bit of ground and «sense» when
water beneath the surface (remembering that
there is groundwater almost everywhere) is in some
formation that would freely release the
water to a well drilled vertically below that point?
There are also latent heat considerations —
water vapor condenses during cloud
formation and precipitation events, and
water droplets evaporate when clouds dissipate.
However,
there are issues that we can not get into the laboratory experiment —
water and air convections, cloud
formations, flora response, and other feedbacks — to name just a few.
The report «Fact - Based Regulation for Environmental Protection in Shale Gas Development» was released in February during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver, British Columbia, and suggested
there is little or no evidence of a direct connection between groundwater contamination and hydraulic fracturing, which involves the injection of
water, sand and chemicals to release natural gas from shale
formations deep underground.
1µmol CH4 = 1.6e - 5g / l = 1.6e - 2 g / m ^ 3 1.5 e9 g / day / 2.4 e15 m ^ 3 = ~ 6.3e - 7 g / m ^ 3 / day = ~ 2.5e - 6 micromolar increase per day diluted over the volume of the Gulf, However, given the 80 fold variation in concentrations observed above under much milder conditions, and the observations of clathrate
formation at the wellhead,
there are undoubtedly plumes of near methane saturated
water (with volumes orders of magnitude less than that of the Gulf) drifting in the currents, slowly dissipating by diffusion and biogeochemical oxidation.