ENDI Warming File - 4 wk
... decreased." That led to a sharp rebuke from the Union of Concerned Scientists, which said the book mischaracterizes climate science with "distorted statistics." Levitt, a University of Chicago economist, said he does not believe there is a cooling trend. He said the line was just an attempt to note ...
... decreased." That led to a sharp rebuke from the Union of Concerned Scientists, which said the book mischaracterizes climate science with "distorted statistics." Levitt, a University of Chicago economist, said he does not believe there is a cooling trend. He said the line was just an attempt to note ...
Hauke L. Kite-Powell
... Jin, D., H.L. Kite-Powell, and W. Talley. 2001. The safety of commercial fishing: determinants of vessel total losses and injuries. Journal of Safety Research 32:209-228. Kaplan, I. and H.L. Kite-Powell. 2000. Safety at sea and fisheries management: fishermen’s attitudes and the need for co-managem ...
... Jin, D., H.L. Kite-Powell, and W. Talley. 2001. The safety of commercial fishing: determinants of vessel total losses and injuries. Journal of Safety Research 32:209-228. Kaplan, I. and H.L. Kite-Powell. 2000. Safety at sea and fisheries management: fishermen’s attitudes and the need for co-managem ...
2006 - Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
... scientists not only from all around our school, but from a few others as well to put theory to the test and to work to truly restore an Antiguan ecosystem that has been stressed from overfishing and warming. We are taking genomics to Little Salt Spring to learn more about the secrets contained withi ...
... scientists not only from all around our school, but from a few others as well to put theory to the test and to work to truly restore an Antiguan ecosystem that has been stressed from overfishing and warming. We are taking genomics to Little Salt Spring to learn more about the secrets contained withi ...
Projected changes in Arctic Ocean freshwater budgets
... Increased freshwater inputs to the ocean from net precipitation, river runoff, and net ice melt result. While generally attended by a larger export of liquid freshwater to lower latitudes, primarily through Fram Strait, liquid freshwater storage in the Arctic Ocean increases. In contrast, the export ...
... Increased freshwater inputs to the ocean from net precipitation, river runoff, and net ice melt result. While generally attended by a larger export of liquid freshwater to lower latitudes, primarily through Fram Strait, liquid freshwater storage in the Arctic Ocean increases. In contrast, the export ...
The Relationship between Land–Ocean Surface Temperature
... too surprising when we consider that, in a given GCM, perturbed climates relax strongly toward a similar value of f under a variety of very different scenarios. For example, if a coupled atmosphere–ocean GCM is perturbed by applying a radiative forcing, then we can calculate a value of f based on th ...
... too surprising when we consider that, in a given GCM, perturbed climates relax strongly toward a similar value of f under a variety of very different scenarios. For example, if a coupled atmosphere–ocean GCM is perturbed by applying a radiative forcing, then we can calculate a value of f based on th ...
BIO1100 AN INTRODUCTION TO MARINE BIOLOGY Lecturer: Prof
... Basin, the high air temperature and the low humidity cause a high evaporation from the Mediterranean Surface Water resulting in increased salinity (in excess of 38 psu). During summer, a thermocline forms preventing this dense saline water from sinking, however, in winter, a combination of cold air ...
... Basin, the high air temperature and the low humidity cause a high evaporation from the Mediterranean Surface Water resulting in increased salinity (in excess of 38 psu). During summer, a thermocline forms preventing this dense saline water from sinking, however, in winter, a combination of cold air ...
What Causes Tides?
... height of tide was correlated with the Moon's position relative to the Sun. However, the exact determination of how the Moon and Sun cause tides is unknown. A few Arabic explanations proposed that the Moon uses its rays to heat the water and then expand it. Descartes argued that space was full of et ...
... height of tide was correlated with the Moon's position relative to the Sun. However, the exact determination of how the Moon and Sun cause tides is unknown. A few Arabic explanations proposed that the Moon uses its rays to heat the water and then expand it. Descartes argued that space was full of et ...
（平成１９年７月２０日施行）の翻訳は 「法令用語日英標準対訳辞書
... The State, in order to promote the Ocean Industries and to strengthen the international competitiveness, shall take necessary measures with regard to the Ocean Industries, to promote the cutting-edge research and development, to upgrade the level of technology, to nurture and secure the human resour ...
... The State, in order to promote the Ocean Industries and to strengthen the international competitiveness, shall take necessary measures with regard to the Ocean Industries, to promote the cutting-edge research and development, to upgrade the level of technology, to nurture and secure the human resour ...
ODP Greatest Hits
... hydrothermal venting had ceased know that large volumes of natural sometime between 1993 and 1996. Photo courtesy of Keir Becker. gas (methane) are frozen within deep-sea marine sediments as gas hydrates and now we’ve discovered that there is enough locked ...
... hydrothermal venting had ceased know that large volumes of natural sometime between 1993 and 1996. Photo courtesy of Keir Becker. gas (methane) are frozen within deep-sea marine sediments as gas hydrates and now we’ve discovered that there is enough locked ...
John Dove Isaacs III - National Academy of Sciences
... which would move them eastward toward Vancouver and eventually south along the California coast. The ice would take on a streamlined form as it moved, powered by a temperature-difference "engine"; and it would produce more water from rain than from ice melt. Eventually—somehow— the berg would be par ...
... which would move them eastward toward Vancouver and eventually south along the California coast. The ice would take on a streamlined form as it moved, powered by a temperature-difference "engine"; and it would produce more water from rain than from ice melt. Eventually—somehow— the berg would be par ...
Stockholm University
... prevent the model from drifting away from the real state of the atmosphere, while the model provides a global data set that includes a temporal and three-dimensionally spatial development of a multitude of variables for more than four decades. Of special interest for such comparisons is the fact tha ...
... prevent the model from drifting away from the real state of the atmosphere, while the model provides a global data set that includes a temporal and three-dimensionally spatial development of a multitude of variables for more than four decades. Of special interest for such comparisons is the fact tha ...
Climate Change and San Francisco Bay-Delta Tidal
... Climate change will affect tidal wetlands with higher rates of sea-level rise and higher concentrations of salt in brackish and freshwater tidal systems, in addition to causing increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration, warmer temperatures, and shifts in precipitation. In the San Francisco Bay–Delt ...
... Climate change will affect tidal wetlands with higher rates of sea-level rise and higher concentrations of salt in brackish and freshwater tidal systems, in addition to causing increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration, warmer temperatures, and shifts in precipitation. In the San Francisco Bay–Delt ...
Deep sea, the last great unexplored earth - Archimer
... geochemical forces affecting hydrothermal vent microbial communities, at the genomic and genus level, vent microbes exhibit a biogeography. Dr Stephan Sievert (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA) added that the high taxonomic diversity observed at deepsea vents is not ne ...
... geochemical forces affecting hydrothermal vent microbial communities, at the genomic and genus level, vent microbes exhibit a biogeography. Dr Stephan Sievert (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA) added that the high taxonomic diversity observed at deepsea vents is not ne ...
Impacts of climate change on harmful algal blooms
... faeces of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina). The impacts of these toxins on the health of marine mammals are unknown and a more detailed study is currently being undertaken. Many of the future impacts of climate change are unknown. Increasing sea surface temperatures as a result of climate change may i ...
... faeces of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina). The impacts of these toxins on the health of marine mammals are unknown and a more detailed study is currently being undertaken. Many of the future impacts of climate change are unknown. Increasing sea surface temperatures as a result of climate change may i ...
Syllabus Introduction to Oceanography GEL 1113
... 2. (6) Why does an eroding beach supplied with material from the cliffs of an old glacier deposit become an armored beach, while an eroding beach supplied by river sediments does not become armored? 3. (7) How does the profile of a sand beach change during alternating seasonal periods of storm waves ...
... 2. (6) Why does an eroding beach supplied with material from the cliffs of an old glacier deposit become an armored beach, while an eroding beach supplied by river sediments does not become armored? 3. (7) How does the profile of a sand beach change during alternating seasonal periods of storm waves ...
Impact of Freshwater Release in the North Atlantic under Different
... toward the surface ocean, which limits sea ice formation). Process (ii) is more regional, but it affects the surface radiative budget (through the high albedo of the sea ice), and therefore also the large-scale surface climate. These two processes are not independent from each other and are both rel ...
... toward the surface ocean, which limits sea ice formation). Process (ii) is more regional, but it affects the surface radiative budget (through the high albedo of the sea ice), and therefore also the large-scale surface climate. These two processes are not independent from each other and are both rel ...
- Bipartisan Policy Center
... attempted to estimate what just a few of the results of a warming climate – thawing permafrost, increasing rain, and retreating sea ice along the coast – are likely to cost for one aspect of Alaska's economy: public infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, airports, schools, and water and sewer syste ...
... attempted to estimate what just a few of the results of a warming climate – thawing permafrost, increasing rain, and retreating sea ice along the coast – are likely to cost for one aspect of Alaska's economy: public infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, airports, schools, and water and sewer syste ...
Antarctic climate change and the environment
... perspective these two are treated almost exactly the same. The anthropogenic carbon cycle includes the emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere that have continued at an increasing rate since the start of the industrial revolution. The natural carbon cycle includes the behaviour of the carbon in the oce ...
... perspective these two are treated almost exactly the same. The anthropogenic carbon cycle includes the emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere that have continued at an increasing rate since the start of the industrial revolution. The natural carbon cycle includes the behaviour of the carbon in the oce ...
In situ measurements of thermal diffusivity in sediments of the
... the uppermost seafloor. Sediment thermal diffusivity is a physical property that is only poorly known from laboratory studies; very few measurements have been made in situ. Previous studies of contemporary methane hydrate decomposition have focused on high-latitude Arctic regions (Berndt et al., 201 ...
... the uppermost seafloor. Sediment thermal diffusivity is a physical property that is only poorly known from laboratory studies; very few measurements have been made in situ. Previous studies of contemporary methane hydrate decomposition have focused on high-latitude Arctic regions (Berndt et al., 201 ...
Sensitivities of extant animal taxa to ocean acidification
... A2, which resembles RCP8.5 (refs 3,4). Ocean acidification is projected to be accompanied by a rise in global mean sea surface temperature by 1.5 to 2.6 ◦ C by 2100 relative to 1980–1990, depending on the scenario (SRES B1 to A2; ref. 5). Marine ecosystems host a large diversity of species with dist ...
... A2, which resembles RCP8.5 (refs 3,4). Ocean acidification is projected to be accompanied by a rise in global mean sea surface temperature by 1.5 to 2.6 ◦ C by 2100 relative to 1980–1990, depending on the scenario (SRES B1 to A2; ref. 5). Marine ecosystems host a large diversity of species with dist ...
Antarctic climate change and the environment: an update
... Between 2006 and 2008 the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) undertook a major review of the state and current understanding of Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate science. The study spanned change from Deep Time, through the Holocene and the instrumental period, to predictions of po ...
... Between 2006 and 2008 the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) undertook a major review of the state and current understanding of Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate science. The study spanned change from Deep Time, through the Holocene and the instrumental period, to predictions of po ...
pdf file - Polar Science Center
... subpolar wind belt (Vellinga & Wood, 2002), alter oceanic gyre circulation around Antartica and thereby induce changes in ice shelf melting (Hattermann & Levermann, 2010) and influence the stability properties of WAIS. Though these connections exist, so far neither model results nor paleo evidence h ...
... subpolar wind belt (Vellinga & Wood, 2002), alter oceanic gyre circulation around Antartica and thereby induce changes in ice shelf melting (Hattermann & Levermann, 2010) and influence the stability properties of WAIS. Though these connections exist, so far neither model results nor paleo evidence h ...
Attachment 1
... The most straightforward way to find out how much plastic is in the ocean is to directly measure and count pieces. That’s what these scientists are doing: filtering water from different places in the ocean and counting all the pieces of plastic they find. ...
... The most straightforward way to find out how much plastic is in the ocean is to directly measure and count pieces. That’s what these scientists are doing: filtering water from different places in the ocean and counting all the pieces of plastic they find. ...
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.