So, for example, a big part of what drives a hurricane is the fact that you've got a lot of warm
water near the surface of the ocean that is transferring heat into the air, and that's what's moving up, and that is a big part of then what's propelling the entire bigger storm system.
Not exact matches
The shrimp represent centimeter - sized swimmers, including krill and shrimplike copepods, found throughout the world's
oceans that may together be capable
of mixing
ocean layers — and delivering nutrient - rich deep
waters to phytoplankton, or microscopic marine plants,
near the
surface, the researchers suggest.
Today, cold
water sinks
near the Arctic and flows deep below the
surface of the Atlantic toward the southern
oceans, where it rises up.
The oxygen content
of the
ocean may be subject to frequent ups and downs in a very literal sense — that is, in the form
of the numerous sea creatures that dine
near the
surface at night then submerge into the safety
of deeper, darker
waters at daybreak.
The wind keeps a layer
of warm
water near the
surface in Indonesia, reducing the temperature difference across the Indian
Ocean and so minimising the strength
of positive IOD events.
Water takes a lot
of energy to heat, and our
oceans are very deep, so sunlight only raises the temperature
near the
surface.
Because the upwelled
waters ran along the
surface for a longer period
of time, nutrients spent more time
near the
surface of the
ocean where phytoplankton could feed on them for longer.
This
water vapor contributes to the development
of what is called a marine layer
near the
surface of the
ocean.
The
oceans are not a single reservoir for CO2, but a combination
of near surface waters and deeper layers.
I suspect the amount
of additional 33psu
surface waters entrained by the sinking brine is indicated by the nearly 35psu salinity
of Arctic
ocean water below about 300 meters depth; if the salt from each cubic meter
of ice formed were added to approximately 15 cubic meters
of water at 33psu, it would raise the salinity to
near 35psu.
The point
of the observations that you have gathered from the people who study, as opposed to merely post speculations, is the
water near the bottom
of the Arctic
Ocean is isolated from the ice on its
surface.
Model simulations indicate that polar
surface waters will become undersaturated for aragonite in the
near future for the Arctic (atmospheric carbon dioxide
of 400 - 450 ppm) and by mid-century for the southern
ocean off the Antarctic (atmospheric carbon dioxide
of 550 - 600 ppm).
17 El Nino verses La Nina El Niño La Niña Trade winds weaken Warm
ocean water replaces offshore cold
water near South America Irregular intervals
of three to seven years Wetter than average winters in NC La Niña Normal conditions between El Nino events When
surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific are colder than average The southern US is usually warmer and dryer in climate
Most interesting is that the about monthly variations correlate with the lunar phases (peak on full moon) The Helsinki Background measurements 1935 The first background measurements in history; sampling data in vertical profile every 50 - 100m up to 1,5 km; 364 ppm underthe clouds and above Haldane measurements at the Scottish coast 370 ppmCO2 in winds from the sea; 355 ppm in air from the land Wattenberg measurements in the southern Atlantic
ocean 1925-1927 310 sampling stations along the latitudes of the southern Atlantic oceans and parts of the northern; measuring all oceanographic data and CO2 in air over the sea; high ocean outgassing crossing the warm water currents north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly av
ocean 1925-1927 310 sampling stations along the latitudes
of the southern Atlantic
oceans and parts
of the northern; measuring all oceanographic data and CO2 in air over the sea; high
ocean outgassing crossing the warm water currents north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly av
ocean outgassing crossing the warm
water currents north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic
ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly av
ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea
surface in northern Atlantic
Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly av
Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2
near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly average
Cold
water in clouds is the
nearest sink that absorbs the CO2 that is outgassed from the
surface of the
ocean.
The vertically integrated inventory
of human emitted CO2 in the
oceans is (not surprisingly) much greater in areas
of cold deep convection, especially in the northern Atlantic (the falling leg
of the thermohaline circulation), and much less in the tropics where the
ocean is strongly stratified; absorption in the tropics really is more in the
near -
surface waters.
Most
of the deep
ocean warming is occurring in the subtropical
ocean gyres - vast rotating masses
of water in each
ocean basin where
near -
surface currents converge and are forced downward into the
ocean interior.
Surface Currents Horizontal movements of ocean water caused by wind and occurring at or near the ocean's surface are called surface cu
Surface Currents Horizontal movements
of ocean water caused by wind and occurring at or
near the
ocean's
surface are called surface cu
surface are called
surface cu
surface currents.
These two
near -
surface currents converge in the centre
of the subtropical
ocean gyres and, with nowhere else to go, the
water is directed downward into the
ocean interior (known as Ekman pumping).
As I have said before,
water is most
of surface area
of earth
near the equator, and tropics [40 %
of surface area
of earth] receives most
of the Sun's energy and the tropical
ocean does seem to me to drive Earth's climate.
The
waters that underlie the
near -
surface subtropical
waters have freshened due to equatorward circulation
of the freshened subpolar
surface waters; in particular, the fresh intermediate
water layer (at ~ 1,000 m) in the SH has freshened in both the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans.
Already — not decades from now as scientists previously expected — corrosive shelf
water off the continental shelf
of the West Coast is eating away at the shells
of tiny free - swimming marine snails, called pteropods, that swim
near the
ocean's
surface and provide food for a variety
of fishes, including salmon, mackerel, and herring.
The Pentagon report describes a scenario in which human - caused global warming leads to a
near - term collapse
of the
ocean's thermohaline circulation, which brings warm
surface waters from the tropics to the North Atlantic, warming parts
of Western Europe.
However, the data also showed that significant amounts
of carbon dioxide were being absorbed by the
waters near the
ocean surface.
The world's climate is way too complex... with way too many significant global and regional variables (e.g., solar, volcanic and geologic activity, variations in the strength and path
of the jet stream and major
ocean currents, the seasons created by the tilt
of the earth, and the concentration
of water vapor in the atmosphere, which by the way is many times more effective at holding heat
near the
surface of the earth than is carbon dioxide, a non-toxic, trace gas that all plant life must have to survive, and that produce the oxygen that WE need to survive) to consider for any so - called climate model to generate a reliable and reproducible predictive model.
The cold sub-polar
water displaces the warm
surface layer
nearer the equator and facilitates cold
water upwelling on the eastern margin
of the Pacific
Ocean.
Ocean acidification, rising ocean temperatures, declining sea ice, and other environmental changes interact to affect the location and abundance of marine fish, including those that are commercially important, those used as food by other species, and those used for subsistence.16, 17,18,122,19,20,21 These changes have allowed some near - surface fish species such as salmon to expand their ranges northward along the Alaskan coast.124, 125,126 In addition, non-native species are invading Alaskan waters more rapidly, primarily through ships releasing ballast waters and bringing southerly species to Alaska.5, 127 These species introductions could affect marine ecosystems, including the feeding relationships of fish important to commercial and subsistence fishe
Ocean acidification, rising
ocean temperatures, declining sea ice, and other environmental changes interact to affect the location and abundance of marine fish, including those that are commercially important, those used as food by other species, and those used for subsistence.16, 17,18,122,19,20,21 These changes have allowed some near - surface fish species such as salmon to expand their ranges northward along the Alaskan coast.124, 125,126 In addition, non-native species are invading Alaskan waters more rapidly, primarily through ships releasing ballast waters and bringing southerly species to Alaska.5, 127 These species introductions could affect marine ecosystems, including the feeding relationships of fish important to commercial and subsistence fishe
ocean temperatures, declining sea ice, and other environmental changes interact to affect the location and abundance
of marine fish, including those that are commercially important, those used as food by other species, and those used for subsistence.16, 17,18,122,19,20,21 These changes have allowed some
near -
surface fish species such as salmon to expand their ranges northward along the Alaskan coast.124, 125,126 In addition, non-native species are invading Alaskan
waters more rapidly, primarily through ships releasing ballast
waters and bringing southerly species to Alaska.5, 127 These species introductions could affect marine ecosystems, including the feeding relationships
of fish important to commercial and subsistence fisheries.
Water vapour content is largely a function
of temperature, particularly
ocean surface and
near -
surface temperature.
It notes that despite the cooling effect
of La Niña, most evident in the
near -
surface waters of the tropical eastern Pacific
Ocean, 1999 was still one
of the warmest years in the global historical instrumental record.
Well, I was one
of the first persons in the blogosphere at the time to evaluate that, because I compared the dip in the temperature
of sampled
water with the dip in the temperature
of near -
surface air measured on ships, and observed that approximately half or so
of the dip was explainable by instrumentation changes and the remainder by some other mechanism — probably a change in internal
ocean dynamics (PDO, AMO, etc..)
However, in the deep tropics, where the theoretical effects on the
surface energy budget
of temperature - driven changes in evaporation and
water vapour are particularly strong, there is a
near quarter century record
of both SST and tas from the Tropical Atmosphere
Ocean array of fixed buoys in the Pacific o
Ocean array
of fixed buoys in the Pacific
oceanocean.
The
ocean waters of the deep circumpolar current that swirl around the continent have been getting measurably warmer and
nearer the
ocean surface over the last 40 years, [continue reading...]
Warming bottom
waters in deeper parts
of the
ocean, where
surface sediment is much colder than freezing and the hydrate stability zone is relatively thick, would not thaw hydrates
near the sediment
surface, but downward heat diffusion into the sediment column would thin the stability zone from below, causing basal hydrates to decompose, releasing gaseous methane.
There is also an increased upwelling
of deep cold
ocean waters and more intense uprising
of surface air
near South America, resulting in increasing numbers
of drought occurrences, although fishermen reap benefits from the more nutrient - filled eastern Pacific
waters.
Scientists looked at radiocarbon levels in the shells
of microscopic animals which lived both
near the
surface and on /
near the bottom
of the Southern
Ocean, and found large quantities
of carbon locked away in «old deep
water» around Antarctica.
Depending on the rate
of fossil fuel burning, the pH
of ocean water near the
surface is expected to drop to 7.7 to 7.9 by 2100, lower than any time in the last 420,000 years, the Royal Society report said.
Thus, the static stability
of the
near -
surface water increases and the convective mixing
of cold
surface water with the relatively warm subsurface
water is reduced, thereby contributing to the reduction
of sea
surface temperature in the Circumpolar
Ocean.