Coastal waters - Scotland`s Environment Web
... coastal waters), with good status water bodies having only low levels of human alteration. Moderate, poor and bad status water bodies show progressively more impact from human activities. More details on the classification scheme can be found in the 2008 State of the water environment report, and th ...
... coastal waters), with good status water bodies having only low levels of human alteration. Moderate, poor and bad status water bodies show progressively more impact from human activities. More details on the classification scheme can be found in the 2008 State of the water environment report, and th ...
Re-mapping the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami
... fault indicate that the fault will rupture again, probably within the next 100 years, putting the Banda Aceh region in danger of another tsunami. It is essential to the lives of all Acheans that an evacuation plan and an early warning tsunami system are established in Banda Aceh. To accomplish this, ...
... fault indicate that the fault will rupture again, probably within the next 100 years, putting the Banda Aceh region in danger of another tsunami. It is essential to the lives of all Acheans that an evacuation plan and an early warning tsunami system are established in Banda Aceh. To accomplish this, ...
... The meeting noted that the GMDSS website was presently hosted and supported by Meteo France on behalf of the JCOMM. It requested Henri Savina to determine Meteo France requirements with regard to a possible long-term commitment to maintaining the website, and report on this to the Management Committ ...
CHAPTER 23 - CONNECTING THE OCEANS AND HUMAN HEALTH
... underscoring the vast potential of the oceans as a source of new chemicals.3 These natural products can be developed not only as pharmaceuticals, but also as nutritional supplements, medical diagnostics, cosmetics, agricultural chemicals (pesticides and herbicides), enzymes and chemical probes for d ...
... underscoring the vast potential of the oceans as a source of new chemicals.3 These natural products can be developed not only as pharmaceuticals, but also as nutritional supplements, medical diagnostics, cosmetics, agricultural chemicals (pesticides and herbicides), enzymes and chemical probes for d ...
Influence of Ocean and Atmosphere Components on
... relative to ESM2M is established early and then maintained over a large range of forcing magnitudes. The warming simulated by the two models rejoins near 4 times CO2 when the radiative forcing is 7 W m22, much larger than that attained in the scenario experiment, nominally 4.5 W m22. Both ESM2G and ...
... relative to ESM2M is established early and then maintained over a large range of forcing magnitudes. The warming simulated by the two models rejoins near 4 times CO2 when the radiative forcing is 7 W m22, much larger than that attained in the scenario experiment, nominally 4.5 W m22. Both ESM2G and ...
Jickells_dust_Science2005_L07
... marine sediment records. Dust fluxes were 2 to 20 times higher during the last glaciation (17–19) because of stronger winds, aridity, changes in vegetation cover, lowered sea level, and reduced precipitation. It has been suggested that changing land use practices over recent decades have altered dus ...
... marine sediment records. Dust fluxes were 2 to 20 times higher during the last glaciation (17–19) because of stronger winds, aridity, changes in vegetation cover, lowered sea level, and reduced precipitation. It has been suggested that changing land use practices over recent decades have altered dus ...
Content and Abstracts. - Census of Marine Life Secretariat
... dominated by intense artisanal and subsistence sectors, although there are also several commercially important industrial fisheries, mostly targeting lobsters, prawns and squid. No reliable species lists exist for individual countries of tropical Africa, but 11 257 marine species are recorded from t ...
... dominated by intense artisanal and subsistence sectors, although there are also several commercially important industrial fisheries, mostly targeting lobsters, prawns and squid. No reliable species lists exist for individual countries of tropical Africa, but 11 257 marine species are recorded from t ...
Chapter 15—Cenozoic Events
... albedo higher (thus lower global temperatures); 8o C drop per 1% change b. cloud-ash-dust absorption of solar energy c. greenhouse gas content (especially CO2); decrease CO2 = cooling, increase = warming temporarily but cloud cover and excess precipitation may trigger ice buildup d. oceanic effects: ...
... albedo higher (thus lower global temperatures); 8o C drop per 1% change b. cloud-ash-dust absorption of solar energy c. greenhouse gas content (especially CO2); decrease CO2 = cooling, increase = warming temporarily but cloud cover and excess precipitation may trigger ice buildup d. oceanic effects: ...
The Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System:
... GCOOS also supports a coastal monitoring subsystem, Central Gulf Observing System (CenGOOS), operated by the University of Southern Mississippi. This system is critical to monitoring the hypoxic, or low oxygen, zone caused annually at the mouth of the Mississippi River by excess nutrient runoff from ...
... GCOOS also supports a coastal monitoring subsystem, Central Gulf Observing System (CenGOOS), operated by the University of Southern Mississippi. This system is critical to monitoring the hypoxic, or low oxygen, zone caused annually at the mouth of the Mississippi River by excess nutrient runoff from ...
Total Pole Airship - Jean
... 54 metres long, 14 metres wide and 17 metres high and its 5,500-cu.m envelope is filled with inert and noninflammable helium. The aircraft has a design payload of about 1,200 kg. In order to carry enough fuel to cover a larger survey zone, the expedition will minimise the rest of the payload and car ...
... 54 metres long, 14 metres wide and 17 metres high and its 5,500-cu.m envelope is filled with inert and noninflammable helium. The aircraft has a design payload of about 1,200 kg. In order to carry enough fuel to cover a larger survey zone, the expedition will minimise the rest of the payload and car ...
Hotspot Ecosystem Research on Europe`s Deep-Ocean
... quired must be generated in an integrated way that ties research on biodiversity and biological processes intimately to the physical factors that control ecosystems (geology, sedimentology, physical oceanography, biogeochemistry). In addition, it is important to set present-day ecosystems in an hist ...
... quired must be generated in an integrated way that ties research on biodiversity and biological processes intimately to the physical factors that control ecosystems (geology, sedimentology, physical oceanography, biogeochemistry). In addition, it is important to set present-day ecosystems in an hist ...
Nordic Master`s Programme in Marine Ecosystems and Climate
... Purpose and contents: To give the student an introduction to how the ocean physics and ocean chemistry influence production and distribution of organisms at trophic levels of marine ecosystems from phytoplankton to fish, and how the physics and chemistry influence the flow of energy through the food ...
... Purpose and contents: To give the student an introduction to how the ocean physics and ocean chemistry influence production and distribution of organisms at trophic levels of marine ecosystems from phytoplankton to fish, and how the physics and chemistry influence the flow of energy through the food ...
Into the deep unknown – scientists embark on a mission to explore
... and breakfast’ for deep sea predators such as sharks, which often feed on seamount communities.” What threats are they facing? “The limited knowledge of species associated with seamounts that we have today indicates that many of them grow and reproduce slowly, which makes them particularly vulnerabl ...
... and breakfast’ for deep sea predators such as sharks, which often feed on seamount communities.” What threats are they facing? “The limited knowledge of species associated with seamounts that we have today indicates that many of them grow and reproduce slowly, which makes them particularly vulnerabl ...
Observing climate change trends in ocean biogeochemistry: when
... many variables, n* is shorter at low than at high latitudes. This arises because at low latitudes trends are strong but variability tends to be smaller than at high latitudes, and therefore fewer years of data are needed to detect a long-term trend. An example of how the noise and signal interact in ...
... many variables, n* is shorter at low than at high latitudes. This arises because at low latitudes trends are strong but variability tends to be smaller than at high latitudes, and therefore fewer years of data are needed to detect a long-term trend. An example of how the noise and signal interact in ...
IOC/SC-WESTPAC
... Supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the Natural Science Foundation of China and the Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, systematic observations in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean are carried out during four cruises from 2014 to 2016 conducted by OU ...
... Supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the Natural Science Foundation of China and the Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, systematic observations in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean are carried out during four cruises from 2014 to 2016 conducted by OU ...
Lecture Notes Part 1
... for its density to reach a critical value -this situation is found at high latitudes, in particular near Greenland and Antarctica -at these sites, cold air temperature during winter cools surface water (typically to < 2ºC) which, in turn, increases its density -surface waters during winter in these ...
... for its density to reach a critical value -this situation is found at high latitudes, in particular near Greenland and Antarctica -at these sites, cold air temperature during winter cools surface water (typically to < 2ºC) which, in turn, increases its density -surface waters during winter in these ...
The UN Ocean Conference - June 2017, Guidance to the ENVI
... human activities that use and extract ocean resources (e.g. fishing, deep sea mining), but also from land-based activities (e.g. agriculture, waste management) and activities contributing to global climate change (e.g. greenhouse gas emissions). Managing the marine environment is inherently challeng ...
... human activities that use and extract ocean resources (e.g. fishing, deep sea mining), but also from land-based activities (e.g. agriculture, waste management) and activities contributing to global climate change (e.g. greenhouse gas emissions). Managing the marine environment is inherently challeng ...
Stability of North Atlantic water masses in face of pronounced
... 981) show more negative values. Since each time slice represents the average d13C value over a 10,000 year period and because so many time slices show a similar pattern, we believe it is highly unlikely that this result is due to correlation errors. Although not presented in this paper, glacial onse ...
... 981) show more negative values. Since each time slice represents the average d13C value over a 10,000 year period and because so many time slices show a similar pattern, we believe it is highly unlikely that this result is due to correlation errors. Although not presented in this paper, glacial onse ...
Simulating the mid-Pliocene climate with the MIROC general
... The ocean general circulation model (OGCM) corresponds to version 3.4 of the CCSR Ocean Component Model (COCO). Refer to Hasumi (2000) for more details. Primitive equations are solved on a sphere where the Boussinesq and hydrostatic approximations are employed. The zonal resolution is fixed at 1.406 ...
... The ocean general circulation model (OGCM) corresponds to version 3.4 of the CCSR Ocean Component Model (COCO). Refer to Hasumi (2000) for more details. Primitive equations are solved on a sphere where the Boussinesq and hydrostatic approximations are employed. The zonal resolution is fixed at 1.406 ...
climate information and prediction services for fisheries
... Tuna Commission (IATTC) in the eastern Pacific, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) and the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC). Industrial tuna fleets are highly mobile and the principal tuna market species are intensively traded on the global scale. Also, tu ...
... Tuna Commission (IATTC) in the eastern Pacific, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) and the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC). Industrial tuna fleets are highly mobile and the principal tuna market species are intensively traded on the global scale. Also, tu ...
Forcing of anthropogenic aerosols on temperature trends of the sub
... aerosol (NoAA), well-mixed greenhouse gases only (GHG) and natural forcings only (Nat) MMEs is undertaken (Fig. 3c). The NoAA and Nat MMEs exhibit a small dip in the IO subthermocline temperature: for the Nat MME, this occurs between the late 1970s and the 1980s, while for the NoAA MME, this occurs ...
... aerosol (NoAA), well-mixed greenhouse gases only (GHG) and natural forcings only (Nat) MMEs is undertaken (Fig. 3c). The NoAA and Nat MMEs exhibit a small dip in the IO subthermocline temperature: for the Nat MME, this occurs between the late 1970s and the 1980s, while for the NoAA MME, this occurs ...
Powerpoint
... Controlling factors affecting photosynthetic productivity: Availability of nutrients Nitrates Phosphates Iron ...
... Controlling factors affecting photosynthetic productivity: Availability of nutrients Nitrates Phosphates Iron ...
Submarine hydrothermal vents: Hot springs on the seafloor OCN 201
... precipitate from the hot water as it mixes with bottom seawater. 5. The minerals form “chimneys” which spew hot water, containing “smoke” made of precipitated minerals. The chimneys are formed of CaSO4, which is later replaced by metal-bearing sulfide minerals such as FeS and ZnS. ...
... precipitate from the hot water as it mixes with bottom seawater. 5. The minerals form “chimneys” which spew hot water, containing “smoke” made of precipitated minerals. The chimneys are formed of CaSO4, which is later replaced by metal-bearing sulfide minerals such as FeS and ZnS. ...
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.