N.H. Sea Grant Strategic Plan
... strides toward recovering from many historic impacts, yet human activities continue to pose challenges that require scientific study. Tourism, recreational and commercial activities, including fishing, aquaculture and shellfishing, and the quality of life in the seacoast all depend on balancing heal ...
... strides toward recovering from many historic impacts, yet human activities continue to pose challenges that require scientific study. Tourism, recreational and commercial activities, including fishing, aquaculture and shellfishing, and the quality of life in the seacoast all depend on balancing heal ...
Examining the global record of interannual variability in
... hampered by a shortage of available data. The advent of satellite ocean color measurements and the proliferation of hydrographic profiles from autonomous floats and other observing platforms over the last decade, however, has greatly expanded the number of contemporaneous measurements of stratification ...
... hampered by a shortage of available data. The advent of satellite ocean color measurements and the proliferation of hydrographic profiles from autonomous floats and other observing platforms over the last decade, however, has greatly expanded the number of contemporaneous measurements of stratification ...
MAMA - Capemalta
... the whole basin to trigger local awareness on the benefits of operational oceanography and ocean forecasting with dissemination of results and demonstration products, and build momentum towards long term commitments by governments. The specific objectives of the MAMA project are to: build the basi ...
... the whole basin to trigger local awareness on the benefits of operational oceanography and ocean forecasting with dissemination of results and demonstration products, and build momentum towards long term commitments by governments. The specific objectives of the MAMA project are to: build the basi ...
5th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean
... term can be transformed into a set of terms that do not contain any pressure quantities but do contain the time derivative of a wave-induced velocity. This wave-induced velocity is referred to as the pseudomomentum in the VL framework, as it is analogous to the generalized pseudomomentum in Andrews ...
... term can be transformed into a set of terms that do not contain any pressure quantities but do contain the time derivative of a wave-induced velocity. This wave-induced velocity is referred to as the pseudomomentum in the VL framework, as it is analogous to the generalized pseudomomentum in Andrews ...
Global assessment of vulnerability to sealevel rise in
... [2] Nearly a quarter of the world’s population lives within 100 km of a coastline and 100 m of sea level [Small and Nicholls, 2003]. Fresh water is essential for sustaining these dense populations and critical ecosystems, yet coastal water resources are threatened by salinization due to overpumping ...
... [2] Nearly a quarter of the world’s population lives within 100 km of a coastline and 100 m of sea level [Small and Nicholls, 2003]. Fresh water is essential for sustaining these dense populations and critical ecosystems, yet coastal water resources are threatened by salinization due to overpumping ...
English
... and transfer of artificial radionuclides in food chains, and to provide present dose levels to the world population based on the consumption of seafoods, following intentional and accidental releases to the sea; ■ review current understanding of the transfer, fate, and biological effects of non-nucl ...
... and transfer of artificial radionuclides in food chains, and to provide present dose levels to the world population based on the consumption of seafoods, following intentional and accidental releases to the sea; ■ review current understanding of the transfer, fate, and biological effects of non-nucl ...
Press Release
... voice recorder. The survey off of Nihoa Island was conducted using a video recorder attached to the submersible. The results of the 36 surveys showed that the highly mobile megafauna (like fish, sharks, shrimp and squid) were much more abundant in the canyons than on the open slopes at all depths st ...
... voice recorder. The survey off of Nihoa Island was conducted using a video recorder attached to the submersible. The results of the 36 surveys showed that the highly mobile megafauna (like fish, sharks, shrimp and squid) were much more abundant in the canyons than on the open slopes at all depths st ...
Elana McDermott Final Paper Global Coral Reefs: Concerns
... history of seawater pH during the last three centuries. In order to obtain this information the full length of the coral was sampled in five year increments. This information provided a continuous record of the acidity of the seawater based on the boron isotropic composition of the coral. It is now ...
... history of seawater pH during the last three centuries. In order to obtain this information the full length of the coral was sampled in five year increments. This information provided a continuous record of the acidity of the seawater based on the boron isotropic composition of the coral. It is now ...
2nd meeting report - IBI-ROOS
... The objective of this talk is to present how modelling and assimilation people of the BISregion could work together from the Atlantic front (large scale) to regional, coastal and local areas. The Atlantic front system extends from Ireland to Morocco and will be run operationally by both MERCATOR and ...
... The objective of this talk is to present how modelling and assimilation people of the BISregion could work together from the Atlantic front (large scale) to regional, coastal and local areas. The Atlantic front system extends from Ireland to Morocco and will be run operationally by both MERCATOR and ...
Chapter 13: Biological productivity and energy transfer
... Some fish stocks in North Atlantic rebounding Other fish stocks still in ...
... Some fish stocks in North Atlantic rebounding Other fish stocks still in ...
DEPARTMENT OF OCEAN DEVELOPMENT GOVERNMENT Of
... ocean: the timing and strength of the monsoon in India depend at least partially on the behaviour of Somali Current. The new Ocean Regime established by the United Nations Coriventionon the Law of the Sea 1982, which has already been signed by 139 countries including India and ratified by fourteen c ...
... ocean: the timing and strength of the monsoon in India depend at least partially on the behaviour of Somali Current. The new Ocean Regime established by the United Nations Coriventionon the Law of the Sea 1982, which has already been signed by 139 countries including India and ratified by fourteen c ...
Marine geochemical data assimilation in an efficient Earth System
... carbon cycle models (e.g., “HadCM3LC”; Cox et al., 2000) are important tools for assessing climate change and associated feedbacks over the next few hundred years. However, their computational demands currently make them unsuitable for investigating time-scales beyond 1000 years or for conducting se ...
... carbon cycle models (e.g., “HadCM3LC”; Cox et al., 2000) are important tools for assessing climate change and associated feedbacks over the next few hundred years. However, their computational demands currently make them unsuitable for investigating time-scales beyond 1000 years or for conducting se ...
A Discussion of the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the
... change, and specifically an increase in the rate of sea-level rise, will likely exacerbate changes along the coast. The influence of the driving forces of waves, currents, and tides, and the importance of sea level fluctuations, depends on the local geological framework– for example, sea-level rise ...
... change, and specifically an increase in the rate of sea-level rise, will likely exacerbate changes along the coast. The influence of the driving forces of waves, currents, and tides, and the importance of sea level fluctuations, depends on the local geological framework– for example, sea-level rise ...
Detecting an external influence on recent changes
... and Hirst, 2003; Frölicher et al., 2009). Global [O2 ] decreases have also been simulated over longer timescales in response to protracted ocean warming. For example, model simulations using Intermediate Complexity Earth System Models (EMICs) produce a tripling in the volume of suboxic ([O2 ] < 5 µ ...
... and Hirst, 2003; Frölicher et al., 2009). Global [O2 ] decreases have also been simulated over longer timescales in response to protracted ocean warming. For example, model simulations using Intermediate Complexity Earth System Models (EMICs) produce a tripling in the volume of suboxic ([O2 ] < 5 µ ...
Chair in Ocean Mapping - Ocean Mapping Group
... and sedimentology as well as quantifying the degree of local sound speed variability that can be expected. Precise Repetitive Surveying. This research direction aims at establishing the practical limits of monitoring of small scale (decimeter level) seabed change (erosion and deposition). To achieve ...
... and sedimentology as well as quantifying the degree of local sound speed variability that can be expected. Precise Repetitive Surveying. This research direction aims at establishing the practical limits of monitoring of small scale (decimeter level) seabed change (erosion and deposition). To achieve ...
Present and Future Impacts of Ocean Acidification Report of the
... Oceanic uptake of anthropogenic CO2 is altering the seawater chemistry of the world’s oceans with consequences for marine biota, ecosystems, and biogeochemistry. Understanding these impacts requires integrative approaches to understand the linkages among ecosystem components and feedbacks to climate ...
... Oceanic uptake of anthropogenic CO2 is altering the seawater chemistry of the world’s oceans with consequences for marine biota, ecosystems, and biogeochemistry. Understanding these impacts requires integrative approaches to understand the linkages among ecosystem components and feedbacks to climate ...
Programme Booklet
... with global forcing. This is reasonable because most major climate change involves changes in the temperature difference between the tropics and the poles, and such differences generally involve dynamics of the atmosphere and ocean which in turn depend on pressure gradients rather than on mean value ...
... with global forcing. This is reasonable because most major climate change involves changes in the temperature difference between the tropics and the poles, and such differences generally involve dynamics of the atmosphere and ocean which in turn depend on pressure gradients rather than on mean value ...
The report Oceanographic and biological features in the Canary
... productive ecosystem with strong socio‐economic impact since it supports a vast and diverse marine population. The high productivity of the CCLME is mainly driven by the trade winds that flows alongshore, parallel to the NWA coastline, and therefore the actual global warming scenario ...
... productive ecosystem with strong socio‐economic impact since it supports a vast and diverse marine population. The high productivity of the CCLME is mainly driven by the trade winds that flows alongshore, parallel to the NWA coastline, and therefore the actual global warming scenario ...
variations - US CLIVAR
... here have been recent claims that the early-2000s hiatus (or more accurately a slowdown; the term “hiatus” will be used here to denote that slowdown), when the rate of global warming slowed compared to the previous two decades, was an artifact of problematic sea surface temperature (SST) data (Karl ...
... here have been recent claims that the early-2000s hiatus (or more accurately a slowdown; the term “hiatus” will be used here to denote that slowdown), when the rate of global warming slowed compared to the previous two decades, was an artifact of problematic sea surface temperature (SST) data (Karl ...
Summer 2015
... here have been recent claims that the early-2000s hiatus (or more accurately a slowdown; the term “hiatus” will be used here to denote that slowdown), when the rate of global warming slowed compared to the previous two decades, was an artifact of problematic sea surface temperature (SST) data (Karl ...
... here have been recent claims that the early-2000s hiatus (or more accurately a slowdown; the term “hiatus” will be used here to denote that slowdown), when the rate of global warming slowed compared to the previous two decades, was an artifact of problematic sea surface temperature (SST) data (Karl ...
JAMSTEC Vision
... Through these efforts, JAMSTEC determined that the landward slope of the Japan Trench had moved 50 m east, into the Pacific. Seismic reflection surveys and ultra-deep water drilling research have helped sample the fault zone region, to the top of the subducting Pacific plate. Additionally, an increa ...
... Through these efforts, JAMSTEC determined that the landward slope of the Japan Trench had moved 50 m east, into the Pacific. Seismic reflection surveys and ultra-deep water drilling research have helped sample the fault zone region, to the top of the subducting Pacific plate. Additionally, an increa ...
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.