Sentences with phrase «what oceanographers»

What oceanographers had supposed were static differences in the oceans between their sparse measuring - points had often actually been changes over time, not over space.

Trying to infer changes in atmospheric circulation from that data would be a very tricky business — but until know, that's what oceanographers have been stuck with — and the system could use a lot of expansion.

Not exact matches

They settled on an area south of the Mediterranean Sea where some oceanographers say a branch of the Nile River drained into what was called the Lake of Tanis, a coastal lagoon 3,000 years ago.

«It's an opportunity to look at exactly what the array is and its requirements are,» says Meghan Cronin, an oceanographer at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, Washington.

What causes that carbon dioxide to exit the ocean when an ice age ends, though, is still a puzzle oceanographers are trying to decipher.

«We have no idea right now what's going on,» says Nancy Rabalais, a biological oceanographer at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Chauvin who has studied the dead zone for the past 25 years.

As Dr. Mackey cited in the published article Sea Change: UCI oceanographer studies effects of global climate fluctuations on aquatic ecosystems: «They would tell us about upwelling and how the ocean wasn't just this one big, homogenous bathtub, that there were different water masses, and they had different chemical properties that influenced what grew there,» she recalls.

«It's as close to what I imagine another world would look like,» says Diane Adams who worked on this study as a biological oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

«Our original goal was to double what the Japanese have achieved with absorption capacity,» says PNNL chemical oceanographer Gary Gill.

«We know with certainty what's going to happen to the seawater chemistry,» says Victoria Fabry, a biological oceanographer at California State University at San Marcos.

The project, which brings together physical oceanographers, marine biologists, imaging specialists, molecular biologists, bioinformaticists and modelers, uses what it calls a «holistic» and «study it all» approach, analyzing many species at once using a variety of methods, many of them automated.

What we don't know yet is exactly where, how often and how variable its access is,» said Stan Jacobs, an oceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

The research team that published last week's paper is now working to assess which of the potential methods of using satellite data would be most effective in assessing pH. «What we're currently working on is drilling down and seeing which methods perform well,» Jamie Shutler, a University of Exeter oceanographer who was involved with the research, said.

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Millions of stations are dismissed as «negligible» — the work of generations of oceanographers vanish with a journalist's stroke of a pen because what should not exist, can not be.

«In a nutshell, theoretical models can not explain what we observe in the geological record,» said oceanographer Gerald Dickens, a co-author of the study and professor of Earth science at Rice University.

Re # 135 The general opinion amongst most climate scientists and oceanographers is that a slow down in the THC will cause a cooling based on what they think happened at the start of the Younger Dryas stadial (mini ice age.)

What would an oceanographer, geologist, a solar astronomer, or the Farmer's Almanac editor have predicted?

Here is a little bit: http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=12794&SnID=1419357327 «In a nutshell, theoretical models can not explain what we observe in the geological record,» said oceanographer Gerald Dickens, a co-author of the study and professor of Earth science at Rice University.

«For the moment, oceanographers and atmospheric scientists don't see a link to human - caused climate change, but also say what they've seen doesn't match other recognized patterns in ocean conditions.

A short opinion piece in the Radio Times — the BBC's «what's on TV» guide — by Nigel Lawson has got polar Open University Polar Oceanographer Dr Mark Brandon all hot and sticky.

«We've really increased our confidence of what is going into this zone, and what is coming out of it,» said Richard Lampitt, a biological oceanographer at the center in Southampton, England.

What interests me in regard to accelerated anthropogenic ocean acidification and global temperature rise, which are being monitored by instrumentation worldwide, are the vast amounts of data reported and the longitudinal studies done by glaciologists, marine biologists, chemical oceanographers, botanists, climatologists, reef specialists, and their colleagues in other scientific disciplines.

That is what Wallace Smith Broecker, the avuncular oceanographer who coined the term «global warming,» means when he calls the planet an «angry beast.»