Data Package 5 - Tsunamis June 2013
... that are caused by the displacement of large volumes of water. Tsunamis differ from normal wind-forced sea-surface waves in that they have much longer wavelengths. Much like earthquakes, tsunamis are primarily created by sudden vertical movements along a fault in the Earth’s crust. Fault movement in ...
... that are caused by the displacement of large volumes of water. Tsunamis differ from normal wind-forced sea-surface waves in that they have much longer wavelengths. Much like earthquakes, tsunamis are primarily created by sudden vertical movements along a fault in the Earth’s crust. Fault movement in ...
Sustainability in Near-shore Marine Systems: Promoting Natural
... waters from terrestrial sources [37]. Recognition of the need to increase resilience in natural systems has lead to more proactive management of local stressors in some regions. In South Australia, local government now recognizes the global-local connections of future change, and has implemented lon ...
... waters from terrestrial sources [37]. Recognition of the need to increase resilience in natural systems has lead to more proactive management of local stressors in some regions. In South Australia, local government now recognizes the global-local connections of future change, and has implemented lon ...
- Pacific Disaster Net
... Sea level rise is when the level of the sea increases or rises. This is caused by the polar ice caps melting and thermal expansion of the sea surface due to the hotter temperatures. In Samoa, sea level has risen by 4mm since 1993 and will continue to rise. This is slightly larger than the global ave ...
... Sea level rise is when the level of the sea increases or rises. This is caused by the polar ice caps melting and thermal expansion of the sea surface due to the hotter temperatures. In Samoa, sea level has risen by 4mm since 1993 and will continue to rise. This is slightly larger than the global ave ...
A Canadian Contribution to an Integrated
... observations over the long-term requires commitment of a broad community of users and data providers. Involvement of scientists, in particular, provides for definition of key science questions, methodologies, essential ocean variables, critical review of data quality, development and introduction of ...
... observations over the long-term requires commitment of a broad community of users and data providers. Involvement of scientists, in particular, provides for definition of key science questions, methodologies, essential ocean variables, critical review of data quality, development and introduction of ...
U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Implementation
... • SCCOOS data visualizations can provide a larger, environmental context for aquariums, science centers, and coastal tourist locations. • SCCOOS regularly participates in tours, workshops, and meetings within Southern California in order to further collaboration and provide data and information when ...
... • SCCOOS data visualizations can provide a larger, environmental context for aquariums, science centers, and coastal tourist locations. • SCCOOS regularly participates in tours, workshops, and meetings within Southern California in order to further collaboration and provide data and information when ...
the wmo voluntary observing ship programme
... irregularly, roughly every two to seven years and is linked to changes in tropical seasurface temperature patterns, with the eastern Pacific tending to be unusually warm during El Niño years. Around the globe, droughts, floods, the collapse of important fisheries and other unusual phenomena are ofte ...
... irregularly, roughly every two to seven years and is linked to changes in tropical seasurface temperature patterns, with the eastern Pacific tending to be unusually warm during El Niño years. Around the globe, droughts, floods, the collapse of important fisheries and other unusual phenomena are ofte ...
Southern Ocean and South Pacific Region, Working Group 1
... 1.3.1 Ocean Acidification Ocean acidification poses severe potential threats to Southern Ocean ecosystems7 in particular. The relative undersaturation of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in the Southern Ocean means that ocean acidification is likely to have its greatest initial impacts there if the level o ...
... 1.3.1 Ocean Acidification Ocean acidification poses severe potential threats to Southern Ocean ecosystems7 in particular. The relative undersaturation of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in the Southern Ocean means that ocean acidification is likely to have its greatest initial impacts there if the level o ...
“icehouse” (cold) climates
... juxtaposition of glacial (icehouse) deposits with carbonate (greenhouse) deposits is striking. In the Snowball Earth scenario, which proposes that the world oceans froze entirely over (Hoffman et al., 1998; Hoffman and Schrag, 2002), cap carbonates play an integral role and are thought to have been ...
... juxtaposition of glacial (icehouse) deposits with carbonate (greenhouse) deposits is striking. In the Snowball Earth scenario, which proposes that the world oceans froze entirely over (Hoffman et al., 1998; Hoffman and Schrag, 2002), cap carbonates play an integral role and are thought to have been ...
Forum Future Ocean Floor Mapping - Ismar-Cnr
... • GEBCO being universally respected as an IHO and IOC project, free of any political bias or constraints, enabling it to gather bathymetric data and resources from any nation, industry or governmental, research, academic organization. In return, GEBCO provides information back to all the communitie ...
... • GEBCO being universally respected as an IHO and IOC project, free of any political bias or constraints, enabling it to gather bathymetric data and resources from any nation, industry or governmental, research, academic organization. In return, GEBCO provides information back to all the communitie ...
Where Are You From? Why Are You Here? An African Perspective
... article Henry Stommel (1995) circulated in 1954, a few years after his pioneering paper that explains how the torque that easterly and westerly winds exert on the oceans—a rapidly rotating spherical shell of fluid—generates intense jets such as the Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio Current (Stommel 1948). ...
... article Henry Stommel (1995) circulated in 1954, a few years after his pioneering paper that explains how the torque that easterly and westerly winds exert on the oceans—a rapidly rotating spherical shell of fluid—generates intense jets such as the Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio Current (Stommel 1948). ...
El Niño – tracking a global climate phenomenon
... The El Niño phenomenon occurs every three to seven years when the water in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean becomes unusually warm. This sets off a chain reaction of weather events around the world – some devastating and some beneficial, having various impacts on water supply and food production. ...
... The El Niño phenomenon occurs every three to seven years when the water in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean becomes unusually warm. This sets off a chain reaction of weather events around the world – some devastating and some beneficial, having various impacts on water supply and food production. ...
First International Workshop on the “Responses of Marine Hazards
... models. Scientists also briefly introduced their on‐going research activities relevant with this project and expressed their willingness to work together towards the objectives of the project. The workshop recognized with concerns the ever increasing impacts of climate change ...
... models. Scientists also briefly introduced their on‐going research activities relevant with this project and expressed their willingness to work together towards the objectives of the project. The workshop recognized with concerns the ever increasing impacts of climate change ...
Electromagnetic induction by ocean currents: BEMPEX Alan D
... At sub-inertial frequencies, much of the deep ocean’s variability is believed to be due to barotropic (depth-independent) fluctuations, especially (but not exclusively) in regions devoid of intense mean currents 100 suchkm) as eddies the Gulf and the mesoscale thatStream are common in the western ha ...
... At sub-inertial frequencies, much of the deep ocean’s variability is believed to be due to barotropic (depth-independent) fluctuations, especially (but not exclusively) in regions devoid of intense mean currents 100 suchkm) as eddies the Gulf and the mesoscale thatStream are common in the western ha ...
Climate Change and the Environment – Effects of Sea Level Rise on
... Storm surge is currently the major influence on protection measures as indicated by the Thames Barrier in London and the Levee systems of New Orleans. Acceptance of the flood impacts on individual properties over time has led to reduced insurance coverage and thus greater losses when a devastating e ...
... Storm surge is currently the major influence on protection measures as indicated by the Thames Barrier in London and the Levee systems of New Orleans. Acceptance of the flood impacts on individual properties over time has led to reduced insurance coverage and thus greater losses when a devastating e ...
Alaska’s Thawing Permafrost
... takes time and labor away from the activities required for survival. Governments and communities are concerned about these changes. To make the images on the other side of this lithograph, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey analyzed Landsat data and topographic maps compiled from aerial photog ...
... takes time and labor away from the activities required for survival. Governments and communities are concerned about these changes. To make the images on the other side of this lithograph, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey analyzed Landsat data and topographic maps compiled from aerial photog ...
Bellingham Climate Adaptation Plan - Bellingham
... structures fundamentally alter sediment transport along a shoreline, potentially causing both local and distant erosion. These structures can also increase vulnerability to extreme events, such as a strong storm surge. Abandoning structures and facilities where inundation is imminent (retreat) provi ...
... structures fundamentally alter sediment transport along a shoreline, potentially causing both local and distant erosion. These structures can also increase vulnerability to extreme events, such as a strong storm surge. Abandoning structures and facilities where inundation is imminent (retreat) provi ...
Introducing ecology
... Creating a shore profile A shore profile is what a slice through the beach would look like from the side. It shows how steep the shore is, and whether the slope is even or not. We can map the distribution of organisms from our transect survey onto the profile and get extra information about the heig ...
... Creating a shore profile A shore profile is what a slice through the beach would look like from the side. It shows how steep the shore is, and whether the slope is even or not. We can map the distribution of organisms from our transect survey onto the profile and get extra information about the heig ...
PDF - Oxford Academic - Oxford University Press
... studies performed, studies at the population and ecosystem scales of most concern to managers are relatively few. Given this situation, how can physiological studies contribute to the information needs of managers? First, physiological studies can improve the mechanistic understanding of organismal ...
... studies performed, studies at the population and ecosystem scales of most concern to managers are relatively few. Given this situation, how can physiological studies contribute to the information needs of managers? First, physiological studies can improve the mechanistic understanding of organismal ...
CarbonCycle
... The ultimate removal of carbon from the climate system is an extremely slow process. In nature this is balanced by the slow injection of carbon into the atmosphere by volcanoes and outgassing near mid ocean ridges. When humans bring carbon in the form of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, oil) to the ...
... The ultimate removal of carbon from the climate system is an extremely slow process. In nature this is balanced by the slow injection of carbon into the atmosphere by volcanoes and outgassing near mid ocean ridges. When humans bring carbon in the form of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, oil) to the ...
Global Climatic Variation and Energy Use
... cloud formation, shielding the Earth against solar radiation and hence cooling. The Cloud Experiment, headed by physicist Jasper Kirkby at the CERN particle research center near Geneva, Switzerland, has been testing this hypothesis since 2006. Tests were conducted in a chamber in which the Earth's a ...
... cloud formation, shielding the Earth against solar radiation and hence cooling. The Cloud Experiment, headed by physicist Jasper Kirkby at the CERN particle research center near Geneva, Switzerland, has been testing this hypothesis since 2006. Tests were conducted in a chamber in which the Earth's a ...
CarbonCycle
... The ultimate removal of carbon from the climate system is an extremely slow process. In nature this is balanced by the slow injection of carbon into the atmosphere by volcanoes and outgassing near mid ocean ridges. When humans bring carbon in the form of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, oil) to the ...
... The ultimate removal of carbon from the climate system is an extremely slow process. In nature this is balanced by the slow injection of carbon into the atmosphere by volcanoes and outgassing near mid ocean ridges. When humans bring carbon in the form of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, oil) to the ...
Grade 6 Unit 7
... moves through the multiple pathways of the hydrologic cycle. Students will model the continuous movement of water from land, ocean, and atmosphere via transpiration, evaporation, condensation and crystallization, and precipitation. Students will focus on the global movement of water and its changes ...
... moves through the multiple pathways of the hydrologic cycle. Students will model the continuous movement of water from land, ocean, and atmosphere via transpiration, evaporation, condensation and crystallization, and precipitation. Students will focus on the global movement of water and its changes ...
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... (1998), Claereboudt et al. (2001), and Al-Azri et al. (2010) attributed this to the upwelling and cyclonic eddies as cause; deeper nutrient-rich waters to shoal may be responsible for the abrupt decreases in SST during this period. From March to May, with weak winds and large sea surface heating, wa ...
... (1998), Claereboudt et al. (2001), and Al-Azri et al. (2010) attributed this to the upwelling and cyclonic eddies as cause; deeper nutrient-rich waters to shoal may be responsible for the abrupt decreases in SST during this period. From March to May, with weak winds and large sea surface heating, wa ...
MODULE #1: The Oceans of Our Planet Introduction This course is
... Mid-ocean ridge – A continuous chain of underwater volcanic mountains encompassing the earth Some mountains of the various mid-ocean ridges rise so high that they actually extend above the ocean’s surface and form islands, such as the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean. The ridges seem to snake along the ...
... Mid-ocean ridge – A continuous chain of underwater volcanic mountains encompassing the earth Some mountains of the various mid-ocean ridges rise so high that they actually extend above the ocean’s surface and form islands, such as the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean. The ridges seem to snake along the ...
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.