van Hooidonk et al. 2013. Opposite latitudinal gradients in projected
... Coral reefs and the services they provide are seriously threatened by ocean acidification and climate change impacts like coral bleaching. Here, we present updated global projections for these key threats to coral reefs based on ensembles of IPCC AR5 climate models using the new Representative Conce ...
... Coral reefs and the services they provide are seriously threatened by ocean acidification and climate change impacts like coral bleaching. Here, we present updated global projections for these key threats to coral reefs based on ensembles of IPCC AR5 climate models using the new Representative Conce ...
- Wiley Online Library
... Exponentially rising CO2 (currently ~400 latm) is driving climate change and causing acidification of both marine and freshwater environments. Physiologists have long known that CO2 directly affects acid–base and ion regulation, respiratory function and aerobic performance in aquatic animals. More r ...
... Exponentially rising CO2 (currently ~400 latm) is driving climate change and causing acidification of both marine and freshwater environments. Physiologists have long known that CO2 directly affects acid–base and ion regulation, respiratory function and aerobic performance in aquatic animals. More r ...
Regional Plans for US IOOS - Interagency Ocean Observation
... As the regional component of U.S. IOOS, the 11 RAs and ACT perform a vital role. The RAs identify user needs and demands for ocean observations and information products and how national priorities can be addressed effectively in the different regions. They are charged with designing and implementing ...
... As the regional component of U.S. IOOS, the 11 RAs and ACT perform a vital role. The RAs identify user needs and demands for ocean observations and information products and how national priorities can be addressed effectively in the different regions. They are charged with designing and implementing ...
magnitude - Ministry of Earth Sciences
... program collected very high resolution data to study the upper ocean mixing processes. Several state-of-the art instruments, including Sea Glider, underway CTD (uCTD) and Inherent Optical Profiler (IOP) were used in this observational campaign. The second very high-resolution operational ocean forec ...
... program collected very high resolution data to study the upper ocean mixing processes. Several state-of-the art instruments, including Sea Glider, underway CTD (uCTD) and Inherent Optical Profiler (IOP) were used in this observational campaign. The second very high-resolution operational ocean forec ...
Gordon_SCS_ITF_GRL12_2012GL052021.pdf
... discharge), respectively [Fang et al., 2009; Qu et al., 2009] making it an important freshwater ‘conveyor’ within the Pacific western marginal seas [Qu et al., 2006]. The SCS water is exported in approximately equal magnitude through Taiwan Strait and into the Indonesian seas (Table 1). The latter m ...
... discharge), respectively [Fang et al., 2009; Qu et al., 2009] making it an important freshwater ‘conveyor’ within the Pacific western marginal seas [Qu et al., 2006]. The SCS water is exported in approximately equal magnitude through Taiwan Strait and into the Indonesian seas (Table 1). The latter m ...
Ocean Eddy Dynamics in a Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Model*
... The role of mesoscale oceanic eddies is analyzed in a quasigeostrophic coupled ocean–atmosphere model operating at a large Reynolds number. The model dynamics are characterized by decadal variability that involves nonlinear adjustment of the ocean to coherent north–south shifts of the atmosphere. Th ...
... The role of mesoscale oceanic eddies is analyzed in a quasigeostrophic coupled ocean–atmosphere model operating at a large Reynolds number. The model dynamics are characterized by decadal variability that involves nonlinear adjustment of the ocean to coherent north–south shifts of the atmosphere. Th ...
Climate change challenges Tuvalu
... sea level would have "severely negative effects on atolls and low islands" (IPCC 2001, p. 856) and would increasingly threaten areas with inundation. Additionally, the effects of storm surges and floods are exacerbated due to the fact that natural breakwaters, like coral reefs, are decreasing becaus ...
... sea level would have "severely negative effects on atolls and low islands" (IPCC 2001, p. 856) and would increasingly threaten areas with inundation. Additionally, the effects of storm surges and floods are exacerbated due to the fact that natural breakwaters, like coral reefs, are decreasing becaus ...
PDF - University of Wyoming
... culprits for the sudden Rancholabrean termination, the trigger for the Northern hemisphere cooling of the YD, and the cause of the termination of the Clovis culture in North America. The alleged projectile(s) is/are supposed to have hit somewhere on the Laurentide Ice sheet, creating a melt water su ...
... culprits for the sudden Rancholabrean termination, the trigger for the Northern hemisphere cooling of the YD, and the cause of the termination of the Clovis culture in North America. The alleged projectile(s) is/are supposed to have hit somewhere on the Laurentide Ice sheet, creating a melt water su ...
Full text in pdf format
... ABSTRACT: This paper presents the general framework of a n ecological model of the English Channel. The model is a result of combining a physical sub-model with a biological one. In the physical submodel, the Channel is divided into 71 boxes and water fluxes between them a r e calculated automatical ...
... ABSTRACT: This paper presents the general framework of a n ecological model of the English Channel. The model is a result of combining a physical sub-model with a biological one. In the physical submodel, the Channel is divided into 71 boxes and water fluxes between them a r e calculated automatical ...
Military Expert Panel Report Sea Level Rise
... military builds, trains and launches its operations, will likely be significantly different. Already, on the global scale, “sea level has risen by about 8 inches since the late 1880s”.7 By 2100, projections show an average global mean sea level rise of up to 1 meter (3.3 feet), with upper projection ...
... military builds, trains and launches its operations, will likely be significantly different. Already, on the global scale, “sea level has risen by about 8 inches since the late 1880s”.7 By 2100, projections show an average global mean sea level rise of up to 1 meter (3.3 feet), with upper projection ...
article 76: the ridge issue
... interest to this paper is that which has been rendered subaerial by reason of anomalous, local, thermal activity in the interior of the earth near to, or beneath a mid-ocean spreading ridge system. Excess thermal activity in the earths interior ...
... interest to this paper is that which has been rendered subaerial by reason of anomalous, local, thermal activity in the interior of the earth near to, or beneath a mid-ocean spreading ridge system. Excess thermal activity in the earths interior ...
Coastal Processes and Climate Change Predictions
... The coastline has a broadly east to west orientation, but there are numerous local variations. This results in contrasts in exposure to wave energy, which provides one basis for explaining differences in wave energy, which provides the basis for explaining differences in coastal landscape. However, ...
... The coastline has a broadly east to west orientation, but there are numerous local variations. This results in contrasts in exposure to wave energy, which provides one basis for explaining differences in wave energy, which provides the basis for explaining differences in coastal landscape. However, ...
Iodine Isotopes and their Species in Surface Water from the
... 2004) and the Baltic Sea (Yi et al., 2010). In the thesis presented here, a focus is given on exploring distribution of iodine isotopes (127I and 129I) and their species (iodide and iodate) along a transect across the North Sea passing by the English Channel and into the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. ...
... 2004) and the Baltic Sea (Yi et al., 2010). In the thesis presented here, a focus is given on exploring distribution of iodine isotopes (127I and 129I) and their species (iodide and iodate) along a transect across the North Sea passing by the English Channel and into the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. ...
Modeling Biogeochemical Processes in Marine Ecosystems
... The ocean is the largest reservoir of carbon with rapid exchanges with the atmosphere, and it is the largest net sink for anthropogenic atmospheric CO2. A fundamental process regulating the air-sea balance of CO2 and the amount of CO2 fixed in the ocean is the biological pump; namely the efficiency ...
... The ocean is the largest reservoir of carbon with rapid exchanges with the atmosphere, and it is the largest net sink for anthropogenic atmospheric CO2. A fundamental process regulating the air-sea balance of CO2 and the amount of CO2 fixed in the ocean is the biological pump; namely the efficiency ...
Neodymium isotopic variations in North Pacific modern
... Atlantic and Pacific oceans [9]. Such a large detrital flux of R E E has major implications for R E E cycling in seawater. The world's oceans contain a total 4.1 × 10 l° moles of Nd; a river flux of roughly 10 7 m o l / y r Nd yields a residence time of 4100 years [1,10]. Oceanic distributions of RE ...
... Atlantic and Pacific oceans [9]. Such a large detrital flux of R E E has major implications for R E E cycling in seawater. The world's oceans contain a total 4.1 × 10 l° moles of Nd; a river flux of roughly 10 7 m o l / y r Nd yields a residence time of 4100 years [1,10]. Oceanic distributions of RE ...
Temperature and substrates as interactive limiting factors for marine
... reduced in winter, growth and respiration may be increased experimentally either by raising the temperature or by increasing organic substrate concentrations, providing indirect evidence that the limitation is an effect of temperature on substrate uptake or assimilation. Experimental work with bacte ...
... reduced in winter, growth and respiration may be increased experimentally either by raising the temperature or by increasing organic substrate concentrations, providing indirect evidence that the limitation is an effect of temperature on substrate uptake or assimilation. Experimental work with bacte ...
Research Article
... Ciliophora and Foraminifera, notably hard-shelled and soft-shelled single-chambered (monothalamous) taxa (Fig. 2). Gromiids and large allogromiids (soft-shelled) foraminifera may have been disregarded because of their resemblance to faecal pellets (Nyholm & Gertz 1973). For many years these organism ...
... Ciliophora and Foraminifera, notably hard-shelled and soft-shelled single-chambered (monothalamous) taxa (Fig. 2). Gromiids and large allogromiids (soft-shelled) foraminifera may have been disregarded because of their resemblance to faecal pellets (Nyholm & Gertz 1973). For many years these organism ...
Major issues in the management of enclosed or semi
... Islands, in the north-east, to Trinidad and Tobago, off the Venezuelan coast, in the south-east. Islands in this chain include, moving in a generally southerly direction, Anguilla, St. Martin, Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Dominica, Martinique, Saint Luci ...
... Islands, in the north-east, to Trinidad and Tobago, off the Venezuelan coast, in the south-east. Islands in this chain include, moving in a generally southerly direction, Anguilla, St. Martin, Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Dominica, Martinique, Saint Luci ...
Utilizacin de Encuestas de Opinin de Expertos para Clasificar
... §Duke Center for Marine Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment, 135 Duke Marine Lab Road, Beaufort, North Carolina 28516, U.S.A. ¶CSIRO Wealth from Oceans National Research Flagship, Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia ...
... §Duke Center for Marine Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment, 135 Duke Marine Lab Road, Beaufort, North Carolina 28516, U.S.A. ¶CSIRO Wealth from Oceans National Research Flagship, Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia ...
Ocean Science - International Science Center
... With the light comes heating from sun. This heating is responsible for wide changes in temperature that occur in this zone, both in the latitude and each season. The sea surface temperatures range from as high as 97°F (36°C) in the Persian Gulf to 28°F (-2°C) near the north pole. The sea surface tem ...
... With the light comes heating from sun. This heating is responsible for wide changes in temperature that occur in this zone, both in the latitude and each season. The sea surface temperatures range from as high as 97°F (36°C) in the Persian Gulf to 28°F (-2°C) near the north pole. The sea surface tem ...
The Role of Stochastic Forcing on the Behavior of Thermohaline
... a cooling with a maximum of 10 K over the nordic seas, while the spatial extent of the cooling is model dependent.8 In the last decade some efforts have been made to measure the magnitude of this circulation and even to determine if there is a diminishing trend in the actual context of climate chang ...
... a cooling with a maximum of 10 K over the nordic seas, while the spatial extent of the cooling is model dependent.8 In the last decade some efforts have been made to measure the magnitude of this circulation and even to determine if there is a diminishing trend in the actual context of climate chang ...
Simulation of the mantle and crustal helium isotope
... investigating the deep ocean circulation and for evaluating ocean general circulation models, because helium is a stable and conservative nuclide that does not take part in any chemical or biological process. Helium in the ocean originates from three different sources, namely, (i) gas dissolution in ...
... investigating the deep ocean circulation and for evaluating ocean general circulation models, because helium is a stable and conservative nuclide that does not take part in any chemical or biological process. Helium in the ocean originates from three different sources, namely, (i) gas dissolution in ...
Climate of the Past
... et al., 1999; Clark et al., 2002; Ramhstrof, 2002; Broecker, 2003; Hemming, 2004). Even though these phenomena are now relatively well identified, the causes and consequences of such climatic changes and dynamic interactions between ice, ocean and atmosphere remain uncertain. For instance, the role ...
... et al., 1999; Clark et al., 2002; Ramhstrof, 2002; Broecker, 2003; Hemming, 2004). Even though these phenomena are now relatively well identified, the causes and consequences of such climatic changes and dynamic interactions between ice, ocean and atmosphere remain uncertain. For instance, the role ...
Effects of global warming on oceans
Global warming can affect sea levels, coastlines, ocean acidification, ocean currents, seawater, sea surface temperatures, tides, the sea floor, weather, and trigger several changes in ocean bio-geochemistry; all of these affect the functioning of a society.