The RADMED monitoring programme as a tool for
... 2009), affected the whole western Mediterranean Sea. There is no agreement on the relative importance of the different deep water formation mechanisms that have caused this phenomenon. Nevertheless, it seems evident that the anomawww.ocean-sci.net/11/897/2015/ ...
... 2009), affected the whole western Mediterranean Sea. There is no agreement on the relative importance of the different deep water formation mechanisms that have caused this phenomenon. Nevertheless, it seems evident that the anomawww.ocean-sci.net/11/897/2015/ ...
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... found in the central subtropical gyres while the highest surface abundances (0.7 m1) were found along the continental shelves and within the subpolar gyre, confirming recent satellite-based assessments of surface CDOM distribution. Within the ocean interior, CDOM abundances were relatively high (0. ...
... found in the central subtropical gyres while the highest surface abundances (0.7 m1) were found along the continental shelves and within the subpolar gyre, confirming recent satellite-based assessments of surface CDOM distribution. Within the ocean interior, CDOM abundances were relatively high (0. ...
Coastal Climate Change Adaptive management of beaches and
... level rise, and changes in wind pattern and storm likelihood are directly affecting coasts and seas. Our coasts and sea are indirectly affected by changes in river basins as well. Changing precipitation and runoff patterns together with increasing temperatures and changing agricultural uses will alt ...
... level rise, and changes in wind pattern and storm likelihood are directly affecting coasts and seas. Our coasts and sea are indirectly affected by changes in river basins as well. Changing precipitation and runoff patterns together with increasing temperatures and changing agricultural uses will alt ...
a system with dangerous thresholds?
... possibility of a shut-down of the formation of Antarctic Bottom Water, which is the second major deep water source of the world ocean. The models generally agree that during the phase of greenhouse gas increase a weakening or even collapse of the conveyor belt does not lead to a surface cooling belo ...
... possibility of a shut-down of the formation of Antarctic Bottom Water, which is the second major deep water source of the world ocean. The models generally agree that during the phase of greenhouse gas increase a weakening or even collapse of the conveyor belt does not lead to a surface cooling belo ...
pdf version - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
... at both extremes, the Arctic and the tropics. While these regions seem opposite in every way, both lie on the front lines of global climate change and its multiple effects on the world ocean. Perhaps nowhere on earth is climate change having as dramatic and rapid an effect as in the Arctic, where ic ...
... at both extremes, the Arctic and the tropics. While these regions seem opposite in every way, both lie on the front lines of global climate change and its multiple effects on the world ocean. Perhaps nowhere on earth is climate change having as dramatic and rapid an effect as in the Arctic, where ic ...
Medicines from the Deep - Marine Conservation Biology Institute
... thriving deep ocean ecosystem and all the unique life within it. Researchers estimate that an area of ocean floor one and a half times the size of the United States is raked by bottom trawling each year.3 Recovery may take centuries or millennia, if it occurs at all.4 Scientists are increasingly con ...
... thriving deep ocean ecosystem and all the unique life within it. Researchers estimate that an area of ocean floor one and a half times the size of the United States is raked by bottom trawling each year.3 Recovery may take centuries or millennia, if it occurs at all.4 Scientists are increasingly con ...
Integrated Ocean Observing System Implementation: Southern
... 3. Climate Variability and Change: Improve the understanding and track secular ocean change including sea level rise (SLR), ocean temperatures, and other climate trends in the Southern California Bight. 4. Ecosystem, Fisheries and Water Quality: Provide physical, geochemical and biological monitorin ...
... 3. Climate Variability and Change: Improve the understanding and track secular ocean change including sea level rise (SLR), ocean temperatures, and other climate trends in the Southern California Bight. 4. Ecosystem, Fisheries and Water Quality: Provide physical, geochemical and biological monitorin ...
fate of sediments delivered to the sea by asian large rivers
... the remaining sediments delivered to the ocean, how much is trapped near the river mouth, and how much is able to reach the deep ocean is still not completely clear. This is an important question, since the flux and fate of river-derived material to the oceans play a key role in global environmental ...
... the remaining sediments delivered to the ocean, how much is trapped near the river mouth, and how much is able to reach the deep ocean is still not completely clear. This is an important question, since the flux and fate of river-derived material to the oceans play a key role in global environmental ...
wetlands, biodiversity and climate change
... plant, is the staple diet of more than half of the world's population. West African rice (Oryza glabberrima), for example, was domesticated over 2000 years ago and wild rice from other wetlands continues to be an important source of new genetic materials in developing diseaseresistant and higher-yie ...
... plant, is the staple diet of more than half of the world's population. West African rice (Oryza glabberrima), for example, was domesticated over 2000 years ago and wild rice from other wetlands continues to be an important source of new genetic materials in developing diseaseresistant and higher-yie ...
What Changes in the Carbonate System, Oxygen, and Temperature
... pressure of oxygen at which the rate of oxygen consumption first begins to decrease with further decreases in DO. Values of Pcrit vary among animals in relation to their activity levels—highly active animals generally have higher Pcrit values—and the levels of DO that characterize their habitat cond ...
... pressure of oxygen at which the rate of oxygen consumption first begins to decrease with further decreases in DO. Values of Pcrit vary among animals in relation to their activity levels—highly active animals generally have higher Pcrit values—and the levels of DO that characterize their habitat cond ...
Interocean Exchange of Thermocline Water - Lamont
... Lamont-DohertyGeolo•TicalObservatoryof Columbia University,Palisades,New York Formation of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) representsa transfer of upper layer water to abyssaldepthsat a rate of 15 to 20 x 106 m3/s. NADW spreadsthroughoutthe Atlantic Ocean and is exported to the Indian and Pacific O ...
... Lamont-DohertyGeolo•TicalObservatoryof Columbia University,Palisades,New York Formation of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) representsa transfer of upper layer water to abyssaldepthsat a rate of 15 to 20 x 106 m3/s. NADW spreadsthroughoutthe Atlantic Ocean and is exported to the Indian and Pacific O ...
Chapter 39 Marine Reptiles
... historic declines of some breeding populations, rendering them more vulnerable to impacts from fisheries by-catch and other threats. According to Wallace et al. (2011), fisheries by-catch was scored as the highest threat across marine turtle subpopulations, followed by human consumption and coastal ...
... historic declines of some breeding populations, rendering them more vulnerable to impacts from fisheries by-catch and other threats. According to Wallace et al. (2011), fisheries by-catch was scored as the highest threat across marine turtle subpopulations, followed by human consumption and coastal ...
T M Target Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations
... need to reduce emissions to 25-40% below 1990 levels by 2020, and 80-95% below 1990 levels by 2050 (IPCC, 2007b). However, the IPCC claims that a concentration of 450 ppm CO2-eq would only provide approximately a 50% chance (within a probability distribution of 26–78%) of remaining below a dangerous ...
... need to reduce emissions to 25-40% below 1990 levels by 2020, and 80-95% below 1990 levels by 2050 (IPCC, 2007b). However, the IPCC claims that a concentration of 450 ppm CO2-eq would only provide approximately a 50% chance (within a probability distribution of 26–78%) of remaining below a dangerous ...
NASA Research Strategy for Earth System Science
... a. The global water cycle According to model predictions, the most significant manifestation of climate change for humans and the environment is an intensification of the global water cycle, leading to increased global precipitation, faster evaporation, and a general exacerbation of extreme hydrolog ...
... a. The global water cycle According to model predictions, the most significant manifestation of climate change for humans and the environment is an intensification of the global water cycle, leading to increased global precipitation, faster evaporation, and a general exacerbation of extreme hydrolog ...
PDF file - UCSB Earth Science
... In contrast to these warming phases which are synchronous with Antarctica ice records, North Brazil Current oceanic conditions during the Bølling–Allerød (B–A) and the time period from 20 to 17.5 kyr BP reveal similarities between the northern and southern high latitudes. For instance, between 15.2 ...
... In contrast to these warming phases which are synchronous with Antarctica ice records, North Brazil Current oceanic conditions during the Bølling–Allerød (B–A) and the time period from 20 to 17.5 kyr BP reveal similarities between the northern and southern high latitudes. For instance, between 15.2 ...
The Oceans - Academic Program Pages
... Other Pacific volcanoes are more sedate. For instance, eruptions from Hawaiian volcanoes are comparatively gentle because their magma has very little water. The dry magma emerges from above a hot spot deep within the earth’s mantle. And just as a blowtorch poised below a slab of moving metal would b ...
... Other Pacific volcanoes are more sedate. For instance, eruptions from Hawaiian volcanoes are comparatively gentle because their magma has very little water. The dry magma emerges from above a hot spot deep within the earth’s mantle. And just as a blowtorch poised below a slab of moving metal would b ...
Global change final
... greater contributor to climate change than carbon dioxide, despite being present in lower proportions (Lashof et al., 1990). The production of methane is more temperature sensitive than the production of carbon dioxide, and so while the proportion of atmospheric methane is currently lower than atmos ...
... greater contributor to climate change than carbon dioxide, despite being present in lower proportions (Lashof et al., 1990). The production of methane is more temperature sensitive than the production of carbon dioxide, and so while the proportion of atmospheric methane is currently lower than atmos ...
For Creative Minds - Arbordale Publishing
... are available online. Go to ArbordalePublishing.com and click on the book’s cover to explore all the links. ...
... are available online. Go to ArbordalePublishing.com and click on the book’s cover to explore all the links. ...
Climate Trends in the Casco Bay Region
... Tropical cyclones have generally grown more intense. Warmer air temperatures and increased water vapor, along with warmer sea-surface temperatures, provide more fuel to tropical storms, increasing their wind speeds (NASA 2015). Warming ocean temperatures could also cause more frequent high-intensity ...
... Tropical cyclones have generally grown more intense. Warmer air temperatures and increased water vapor, along with warmer sea-surface temperatures, provide more fuel to tropical storms, increasing their wind speeds (NASA 2015). Warming ocean temperatures could also cause more frequent high-intensity ...
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
... information needed to manage and restore healthy coastal ecosystems and living resources; forecast and mitigate the effects of natural hazards; enable safer and more cost-effective marine operations; and protect public health. The open ocean one is the ocean component of GCOS, which is co-sponsored ...
... information needed to manage and restore healthy coastal ecosystems and living resources; forecast and mitigate the effects of natural hazards; enable safer and more cost-effective marine operations; and protect public health. The open ocean one is the ocean component of GCOS, which is co-sponsored ...
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.