GEF4400 “The Earth System”
... • Surface ocean currents are driven by the circulation of wind above surface waters, interacting with evaporation, sinking of cold water at high latitudes, and the Coriolis force generated by the earth's rotation. Frictional stress at the interface between the ocean and the wind causes the water to ...
... • Surface ocean currents are driven by the circulation of wind above surface waters, interacting with evaporation, sinking of cold water at high latitudes, and the Coriolis force generated by the earth's rotation. Frictional stress at the interface between the ocean and the wind causes the water to ...
TSUNAMIS (full script)
... Although the impact of tsunamis is limited to coastal areas, their destructive power can be enormous and they can affect entire ocean basins; the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was among the deadliest natural disasters in human history with at least 290,000 people killed or missing in 14 countries border ...
... Although the impact of tsunamis is limited to coastal areas, their destructive power can be enormous and they can affect entire ocean basins; the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was among the deadliest natural disasters in human history with at least 290,000 people killed or missing in 14 countries border ...
Oceanography
... Know that rivers and streams transport nutrients, salts, sediments, and pollutants from watersheds to estuaries and ultimately into the ocean. Understand that “non-point source pollution” is a major source of pollutants that is very difficult to manage. Know the relationship between eutrophication, ...
... Know that rivers and streams transport nutrients, salts, sediments, and pollutants from watersheds to estuaries and ultimately into the ocean. Understand that “non-point source pollution” is a major source of pollutants that is very difficult to manage. Know the relationship between eutrophication, ...
Oceans - Seaweek
... The Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The region around latitude 60 south is the only part of the Earth where the ocean can flow all the way around the world with no land in the way. As a result, both the surface and deep waters flow from west to east around Antarctica. The main current in the Souther ...
... The Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The region around latitude 60 south is the only part of the Earth where the ocean can flow all the way around the world with no land in the way. As a result, both the surface and deep waters flow from west to east around Antarctica. The main current in the Souther ...
Oceans Integrated Unit Plan - Royal Society of New Zealand
... The Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The region around latitude 60 south is the only part of the Earth where the ocean can flow all the way around the world with no land in the way. As a result, both the surface and deep waters flow from west to east around Antarctica. The main current in the Souther ...
... The Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The region around latitude 60 south is the only part of the Earth where the ocean can flow all the way around the world with no land in the way. As a result, both the surface and deep waters flow from west to east around Antarctica. The main current in the Souther ...
Model-based evidence of deep-ocean heat uptake during
... reduction of the upper-ocean heat-content trend in decades when the surface-temperature trend is slightly negative. However, in the deeper layers of the global ocean toward the right-hand side of Fig. 1b, the heat-content trends for hiatus time periods are greater than other decades, indicating that ...
... reduction of the upper-ocean heat-content trend in decades when the surface-temperature trend is slightly negative. However, in the deeper layers of the global ocean toward the right-hand side of Fig. 1b, the heat-content trends for hiatus time periods are greater than other decades, indicating that ...
EOvagle2
... The instruments and technology for carrying out this work have been developed collaboratively by the PI and his collaborator David Farmer and the role of microlayer surfactants as part of a program in collaboration with Dr. Oliver Wurl to study the role of the surface microlayer (SML) in air-sea gas ...
... The instruments and technology for carrying out this work have been developed collaboratively by the PI and his collaborator David Farmer and the role of microlayer surfactants as part of a program in collaboration with Dr. Oliver Wurl to study the role of the surface microlayer (SML) in air-sea gas ...
One Hundred Sixth Congress Of the United States of America
... The Chairman of the Commission shall be responsible for— (A) the assignment of duties and responsibilities among staff personnel and their continuing supervision; and (B) the use and expenditure of funds available to the Commission. (4) VACANCIES—Any vacancy on the Commission shall be filled in the ...
... The Chairman of the Commission shall be responsible for— (A) the assignment of duties and responsibilities among staff personnel and their continuing supervision; and (B) the use and expenditure of funds available to the Commission. (4) VACANCIES—Any vacancy on the Commission shall be filled in the ...
background information on hydrothermal vents
... Description and Morphology. The snail's foot is very unusual in that it is armored with iron-mineral scales. It is protected by scale-shaped sclerites composed of iron sulfides. No other animal is known to use iron sulfides in this way. The snail's shell is also unusual. The shell structure is compo ...
... Description and Morphology. The snail's foot is very unusual in that it is armored with iron-mineral scales. It is protected by scale-shaped sclerites composed of iron sulfides. No other animal is known to use iron sulfides in this way. The snail's shell is also unusual. The shell structure is compo ...
On November 29 - the National Sea Grant Library
... ranges in thickness from only about 3 kilometers (2 mi) in some areas of the ocean floor to some 120 kilometers (75 mi) deep under mountains on the continents. According to the theory of plate tectonics, the Earth’s crust is made up of about a dozen plates on which the continents and the oceans rest ...
... ranges in thickness from only about 3 kilometers (2 mi) in some areas of the ocean floor to some 120 kilometers (75 mi) deep under mountains on the continents. According to the theory of plate tectonics, the Earth’s crust is made up of about a dozen plates on which the continents and the oceans rest ...
inferences from the COADS dataset - Horizon documentation-IRD
... The data distribution and density in the area are presented ir Fig. 3. Data density was, in the 1950s, low all over the region except along trade lanes such as that passing through the MalaccaStrait to Singapore. Later, data density increases alonc the eastern part of the China Sea but remains "spot ...
... The data distribution and density in the area are presented ir Fig. 3. Data density was, in the 1950s, low all over the region except along trade lanes such as that passing through the MalaccaStrait to Singapore. Later, data density increases alonc the eastern part of the China Sea but remains "spot ...
Intraseasonal Variability in the South Equatorial Current of the East
... Richardson number Ri of 2000 averaged over the upper 500 m, where most of the energy conversion occurs (see below). In an Eady model, the growth rate of the baroclinic instability is f /Ri1/2 (Visbeck et al. 1997), which equals 1/20 day 21 during the July–September season. Compared to conditions in ...
... Richardson number Ri of 2000 averaged over the upper 500 m, where most of the energy conversion occurs (see below). In an Eady model, the growth rate of the baroclinic instability is f /Ri1/2 (Visbeck et al. 1997), which equals 1/20 day 21 during the July–September season. Compared to conditions in ...
Coastal and Ocean Observing Supports People Who Live, Work
... Mapping the Direction of the Currents SECOORA is a critical player in the development of a national system of high frequency radars (HF Radar). This technology has been nationally recognized as a solution to provide the level of detail required by scientists, emergency responders and marine forecast ...
... Mapping the Direction of the Currents SECOORA is a critical player in the development of a national system of high frequency radars (HF Radar). This technology has been nationally recognized as a solution to provide the level of detail required by scientists, emergency responders and marine forecast ...
The Messinian Timeline - UMD | Atmospheric and Oceanic
... The Mediterranean is permanently disconnected from the Indian Ocean and land has reached its modern day configuration (www with miocene land mass). The Messinian stage begins ...
... The Mediterranean is permanently disconnected from the Indian Ocean and land has reached its modern day configuration (www with miocene land mass). The Messinian stage begins ...
Woods Hole oceanograpHic institution
... and questions from rivers to the continential shelf break. The Deep Ocean Exploration Institute studies processes that shape the planet’s surface, regulate the chemistry of its oceans, and impact its inhabitants. The Ocean and Climate Change Institute pursues greater understanding of the ocean’s rol ...
... and questions from rivers to the continential shelf break. The Deep Ocean Exploration Institute studies processes that shape the planet’s surface, regulate the chemistry of its oceans, and impact its inhabitants. The Ocean and Climate Change Institute pursues greater understanding of the ocean’s rol ...
The Ocean Floor - NVHSEarthScienceOlsen
... • Mid-Ocean Ridges are found near the center of most ocean basins where plate boundaries ...
... • Mid-Ocean Ridges are found near the center of most ocean basins where plate boundaries ...
Protecting Ocean Life on the High Seas
... The high seas, or ocean areas beyond national jurisdiction, fall outside countries’ exclusive economic zones and cover nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of the ocean’s surface. That amounts to 43 percent of the Earth’s surface. These seas comprise 80 percent of the world’s living space. These areas are ...
... The high seas, or ocean areas beyond national jurisdiction, fall outside countries’ exclusive economic zones and cover nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of the ocean’s surface. That amounts to 43 percent of the Earth’s surface. These seas comprise 80 percent of the world’s living space. These areas are ...
CANT budgets in the ocean
... goes into Atlantic oc., stored in subtropics • high storage at midlatitudes in SH due to transport from SO not from air-sea uptake • NA: high uptake in mid and high latitudes, divergence in transports, high storage (NADW formation) ...
... goes into Atlantic oc., stored in subtropics • high storage at midlatitudes in SH due to transport from SO not from air-sea uptake • NA: high uptake in mid and high latitudes, divergence in transports, high storage (NADW formation) ...
Ocean Exploration - Division on Earth and Life Studies
... the Venus Flower Basket can be tied in a knot without breaking. Marine biologists have known for decades that sponge skeletons transmit light, but until recently they hadn’t studied the light carrying properties of spicules. Even though practical applications could be decades away, this deep-sea dis ...
... the Venus Flower Basket can be tied in a knot without breaking. Marine biologists have known for decades that sponge skeletons transmit light, but until recently they hadn’t studied the light carrying properties of spicules. Even though practical applications could be decades away, this deep-sea dis ...
AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY EDUCATION
... New COSEE initiatives in climate change education are of particular interest. AMS is pleased to be a partner in The Ocean and Climate Change Alliance (OCCEA) CCEP Phase I proposal to NSF. Using the NCN, OCCEA will build bridges and facilitate the flow of information and educational strategies among ...
... New COSEE initiatives in climate change education are of particular interest. AMS is pleased to be a partner in The Ocean and Climate Change Alliance (OCCEA) CCEP Phase I proposal to NSF. Using the NCN, OCCEA will build bridges and facilitate the flow of information and educational strategies among ...
Life in the Ocean
... of the ocean, returning to the same river to breed when they are sexually mature. • Catadromous fishes are not as well known as anadromous fishes; they breed in the open ocean, but spend their adult lives in fresh water. ...
... of the ocean, returning to the same river to breed when they are sexually mature. • Catadromous fishes are not as well known as anadromous fishes; they breed in the open ocean, but spend their adult lives in fresh water. ...
Pomeroy, L. R., 1974. The ocean`s food web, a changing paradigm
... large organisms to suggest that the biomass of all size classes of organisms in the sea, from bacteria to whales, is about the same. There are problems to be resolved in discriminating living from dead particles counted. Some verification of the findings of Sheldon et al. by an independent method i ...
... large organisms to suggest that the biomass of all size classes of organisms in the sea, from bacteria to whales, is about the same. There are problems to be resolved in discriminating living from dead particles counted. Some verification of the findings of Sheldon et al. by an independent method i ...
10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.11.027
... The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the federal agency responsible for lease block allocation for offshore MRE development in federal waters, funded this research to begin to fill the knowledge gap in regional ocean space use and valuation. The three year effort (2009e2012) was impleme ...
... The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the federal agency responsible for lease block allocation for offshore MRE development in federal waters, funded this research to begin to fill the knowledge gap in regional ocean space use and valuation. The three year effort (2009e2012) was impleme ...
KEY PRINCIPLES IN DESIGNATING MARINE PROTECTED AREAS
... Right now, the opportunity to protect the largest areas of intact ocean habitat – Antarctica’s Southern Ocean – is before us. The body that regulates these waters – the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) – has a mandate to establish a system of marine prote ...
... Right now, the opportunity to protect the largest areas of intact ocean habitat – Antarctica’s Southern Ocean – is before us. The body that regulates these waters – the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) – has a mandate to establish a system of marine prote ...
this paper
... Each year the WGOH generates a co-operative research report that summarises the physical conditions in the North Atlantic and Nordic Seas. The ICES Report on Ocean Climate (IROC) describes the status of sea temperature and salinity during the previous year, as well as observed trends over the last d ...
... Each year the WGOH generates a co-operative research report that summarises the physical conditions in the North Atlantic and Nordic Seas. The ICES Report on Ocean Climate (IROC) describes the status of sea temperature and salinity during the previous year, as well as observed trends over the last d ...
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia on the north, on the west by Africa, on the east by Australia, and on the south by the Southern Ocean or, depending on definition, by Antarctica. It is named after India.The Indian Ocean is known as Ratnakara, ""the mine of gems"", in ancient Sanskrit literature and as Hind Mahasagar in Hindi and other Indian languages.