Sentences with phrase «what ocean water temperatures»

Goddard's computer models, with input from ocean buoys, atmospheric models, satellite data and other sources, can also simulate what ocean water temperatures could do in the coming months.

Not exact matches

So if cyanobacteria are shaping the temperature of their growing patch of the ocean to favor themselves over cold - water critters, researchers want to know how they are doing it and what to expect next, says climate scientist Sebastian Sonntag of the University of Hamburg in Germany.

Think of what would happen if you could pump cold deep water up to the surface, increasing the air / sea temperature gradient and warming the water; that would give you an anomalously large ocean heat uptake.

For hurricanes, then, you'd want to ask what the sea surface temperature, subsurface ocean heat content, and atmospheric water vapor content would have been if, say, fossil fuel use had been eliminated 100 years ago, and atmospheric CO2 remained at about 300 ppm.

Also at New York Times (though what to make of «scientists said the ice sheet was not melting because of warmer air temperatures, but rather because of the relatively warm water, which is naturally occurring, from the ocean depths»...?)

That said, what do you find inadequate about the current hypothesis that CO2 rose in response to warming because its soluability in water (oceans) is lower at higher temperatures?

Not sure what you are saying, but yes the ocean is the water vapor reservoir and its temperature is largely responsible for how much H2O feedback we get.

What it would take is another big El Nino event (analogous to 1998) that turns over the ocean waters somewhat, followed by another lull, but at a higher temperature.

The Pacific, and what happens in local waters in its east and west is the focus of ENSO studies and these phenomena are commonly compared to the march in global temperatures but its what happens in the global ocean that is really important for temperature gain and loss on a global basis.

This makes it clear to what extent the variability in the inflow of «warm and salty» North Atlantic water at times of positive values of the NAO (North Atlantic Oscillation) dominates the temperature of the Atlantic water mass by importing «vast quantities of heat» into the Arctic Ocean to induce core temperatures in the intermediate layer in Nansen Basin that are much warmer than in the Canadian Basin, far downstream.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/09/why-greenhouse-gases-heat-the-ocean/ If you look at the data in Figure 2 of the RealClimate post (and ignore their discussion), what happens to the DIFFERENCE between the temperature of the ocean skin and water immediately below?

If you look at the data in Figure 2 of the RealClimate post (and ignore their discussion), what happens to the DIFFERENCE between the temperature of the ocean skin and water immediately below?

The entire atmosphere including the non GHGs and the liquid water in the oceans contribute to the surface temperature being what it is.

Warming temperatures boost sea levels in two ways: melting glaciers release more water into the ocean (see What's behind the big polar meltdown?)