Technical Abstract of the First Global Integrated Marine Assessment
... Purpose and process of preparing the Technical Abstract This Technical Abstract is based upon the First Global Integrated Marine Assessment – World Ocean Assessment I – released in January 2016, and, in particular, upon the Summary of that Assessment, which was approved by the United Nations Genera ...
... Purpose and process of preparing the Technical Abstract This Technical Abstract is based upon the First Global Integrated Marine Assessment – World Ocean Assessment I – released in January 2016, and, in particular, upon the Summary of that Assessment, which was approved by the United Nations Genera ...
i Proposal submitted to the Integrated Ocean Observing System
... Ocean data and information can help save the lives and resources (environmental, capital, and cultural) of ocean stakeholders. This is the premise behind the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS). As one of 11 Regional Associations (RAs) comprising the coastal component of the U.S. Integr ...
... Ocean data and information can help save the lives and resources (environmental, capital, and cultural) of ocean stakeholders. This is the premise behind the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS). As one of 11 Regional Associations (RAs) comprising the coastal component of the U.S. Integr ...
EPOC 2014 program - Eastern Pacific Ocean Conference
... track the advection dynamics of oxygen on isopycnal 26.5. We show that this salinity proxy tracks the dominant decadal fluctuations of subsurface oxygen observed in long-term records in the California Current, Oregon Shelf and Gulf of Alaska. Further analysis of the salinity proxy reveals that the c ...
... track the advection dynamics of oxygen on isopycnal 26.5. We show that this salinity proxy tracks the dominant decadal fluctuations of subsurface oxygen observed in long-term records in the California Current, Oregon Shelf and Gulf of Alaska. Further analysis of the salinity proxy reveals that the c ...
Control of salinity on the mixed layer depth in the world ocean
... Figure 1. Examples of profiles where salinity controls the depth of the mixed layer. Temperature (black), salinity (blue), and density (red) profiles are measured (a) from an Argo float on 31 January 2002 in the southeastern Arabian Sea (67.3°E, 7.4°N) and (b) from a CTD probe on 21 February 1999 in ...
... Figure 1. Examples of profiles where salinity controls the depth of the mixed layer. Temperature (black), salinity (blue), and density (red) profiles are measured (a) from an Argo float on 31 January 2002 in the southeastern Arabian Sea (67.3°E, 7.4°N) and (b) from a CTD probe on 21 February 1999 in ...
Chapter 4 - McGraw Hill Higher Education
... averages will give you some idea of the scales of shelves, you should know that there is a lot of variability in both width and depth. The width can be as great as 1500 km (930 mi) along passive margins and the depth at the outer edge may vary from 20–500 m (65–1640 ft). - The width of continental s ...
... averages will give you some idea of the scales of shelves, you should know that there is a lot of variability in both width and depth. The width can be as great as 1500 km (930 mi) along passive margins and the depth at the outer edge may vary from 20–500 m (65–1640 ft). - The width of continental s ...
DRAFT 23 OCTOBER An Indian Ocean Observing Strategy
... Another important new development is the recognition that the forecasting of weather in particular requires the transmission of critical regional information between adjacent countries in real-time. Thus, it is not only accepted that cooperation is needed but also that it must be virtually instantan ...
... Another important new development is the recognition that the forecasting of weather in particular requires the transmission of critical regional information between adjacent countries in real-time. Thus, it is not only accepted that cooperation is needed but also that it must be virtually instantan ...
Spaceborne active remote sensing missions
... Sea level variation trends since 1992: regional trends • The rise in the level of the oceans is far from uniform. In certain ocean regions the sea level has indeed risen (up to 20 mm/year), in others it has fallen an equivalent amount. • One reason for the rise of the sea level is the thermal expan ...
... Sea level variation trends since 1992: regional trends • The rise in the level of the oceans is far from uniform. In certain ocean regions the sea level has indeed risen (up to 20 mm/year), in others it has fallen an equivalent amount. • One reason for the rise of the sea level is the thermal expan ...
chapter 3 - McGraw Hill Higher Education
... averages will give you some idea of the scales of shelves, you should know that there is a lot of variability in both width and depth. The width can be as great as 1500 km (930 mi) along passive margins and the depth at the outer edge may vary from 20–500 m (65–1640 ft). - The width of continental s ...
... averages will give you some idea of the scales of shelves, you should know that there is a lot of variability in both width and depth. The width can be as great as 1500 km (930 mi) along passive margins and the depth at the outer edge may vary from 20–500 m (65–1640 ft). - The width of continental s ...
Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences: 1959–2009
... wind-driven currents over the continental margin off northern California. The OSU SuperCODE project extends the study of coastal dynamics to include central California and Oregon. OSU continues to monitor coastal currents near Coos Bay into 1989. The mooring near Coos Bay provides current measuremen ...
... wind-driven currents over the continental margin off northern California. The OSU SuperCODE project extends the study of coastal dynamics to include central California and Oregon. OSU continues to monitor coastal currents near Coos Bay into 1989. The mooring near Coos Bay provides current measuremen ...
Microbes and the Marine Phosphorus Cycle
... Figure 1. A conceptual model of dissolved P pools, their bioavailability, and P transformations across the prokaryotic cell membrane. The phosphate pool and pathway is indicated in black, phosphoesters in orange, and phosphonates in green. Note the relative size of the different P pools; their like ...
... Figure 1. A conceptual model of dissolved P pools, their bioavailability, and P transformations across the prokaryotic cell membrane. The phosphate pool and pathway is indicated in black, phosphoesters in orange, and phosphonates in green. Note the relative size of the different P pools; their like ...
Scientific Ocean Drilling - Division on Earth and Life Studies
... vents. It has also provided new insight into the development of gas hydrates. By providing the only direct access to microbes beneath the seafloor, scientific ocean drilling has revolutionized understanding of subsurface microbial communities living near the known limits of life. Earth’s Climate His ...
... vents. It has also provided new insight into the development of gas hydrates. By providing the only direct access to microbes beneath the seafloor, scientific ocean drilling has revolutionized understanding of subsurface microbial communities living near the known limits of life. Earth’s Climate His ...
History of Ocean Exploration and Marine Sciences
... 8. What were the significances of the maps of Herodotus, Strabo, and Ptolemy? 9. What is the purpose of the latitude and longitude mapping system? 10. What is a parallel? What is another name for the 0° parallel? 11. What is a meridian? Through what city does the 0° meridian run? A. Prehistory and t ...
... 8. What were the significances of the maps of Herodotus, Strabo, and Ptolemy? 9. What is the purpose of the latitude and longitude mapping system? 10. What is a parallel? What is another name for the 0° parallel? 11. What is a meridian? Through what city does the 0° meridian run? A. Prehistory and t ...
Rate Processes and Fluxes of Marine Biogeochemical Cycles
... highly relevant to Decadal Survey Theme III Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems and Natural Resource Management and also pertinent to Theme IV Climate Variability and Change: Seasonal to Centennial, and Theme I: Global Hydrological Cycles and Water Resources. The ocean’s phytoplankton and other microb ...
... highly relevant to Decadal Survey Theme III Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems and Natural Resource Management and also pertinent to Theme IV Climate Variability and Change: Seasonal to Centennial, and Theme I: Global Hydrological Cycles and Water Resources. The ocean’s phytoplankton and other microb ...
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... and isopycnal upwelling. Only by invoking all such mechanisms can we explain the spatial variability of sea-surface chlorophyll. The concept of a single source 0” fixed N may not be sustained much longer. The supply of fixed N by the cyanobacteria Trichodesmium is likely to be an important source of ...
... and isopycnal upwelling. Only by invoking all such mechanisms can we explain the spatial variability of sea-surface chlorophyll. The concept of a single source 0” fixed N may not be sustained much longer. The supply of fixed N by the cyanobacteria Trichodesmium is likely to be an important source of ...
Coastal and Ocean Observing Supports People Who Live, Work
... in the process of establishing two new HF Radar stations for monitoring the ocean surface currents and waves in Long Bay. Each station remotely measures the surface ocean currents up to 120 miles offshore and when combined they create maps of temporal and spatial distribution of waves and currents o ...
... in the process of establishing two new HF Radar stations for monitoring the ocean surface currents and waves in Long Bay. Each station remotely measures the surface ocean currents up to 120 miles offshore and when combined they create maps of temporal and spatial distribution of waves and currents o ...
A I O S
... economic zone (EEZ), continental shelf, and on the high seas. It addresses specific subjects such as marine scientific research, seabed mining, and environmental protection. The LOS Convention also creates institutions for managing ocean issues and provides mechanisms for settling disputes. The Unit ...
... economic zone (EEZ), continental shelf, and on the high seas. It addresses specific subjects such as marine scientific research, seabed mining, and environmental protection. The LOS Convention also creates institutions for managing ocean issues and provides mechanisms for settling disputes. The Unit ...
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... negative PDO pattern during the winter 2008/09 and 1983. The warming in 2009 is somewhat unusual in spring 2009, characterized by a horseshoe pattern of the sense that it occurred during the El Niño year, positive SSTA extending from the equatorial western rather than in the year after El Niño. Paci ...
... negative PDO pattern during the winter 2008/09 and 1983. The warming in 2009 is somewhat unusual in spring 2009, characterized by a horseshoe pattern of the sense that it occurred during the El Niño year, positive SSTA extending from the equatorial western rather than in the year after El Niño. Paci ...
OCEAN PICTURES - ScholarWorks
... In this essay I will discuss how underwater films have constructed the ocean as a place either friendly, desirable, and open to human presence or wild, dangerous, and inhospitable to people. These two tropes, which I term “ocean-as-Eden” and “ocean-aswilderness” following Carolyn Merchant and Willia ...
... In this essay I will discuss how underwater films have constructed the ocean as a place either friendly, desirable, and open to human presence or wild, dangerous, and inhospitable to people. These two tropes, which I term “ocean-as-Eden” and “ocean-aswilderness” following Carolyn Merchant and Willia ...
Chapter 13 Next Generation Sunshine State Standards
... 1. The Pacific Ocean, which is the largest ocean and the largest single geographic feature on the planet, accounts for over half of the ocean surface area on Earth. In fact, the Pacific Ocean is so large that all of the continents could fit into the space occupied by it—with room left over! It is al ...
... 1. The Pacific Ocean, which is the largest ocean and the largest single geographic feature on the planet, accounts for over half of the ocean surface area on Earth. In fact, the Pacific Ocean is so large that all of the continents could fit into the space occupied by it—with room left over! It is al ...
Climate variability and ocean production in the Leeuwin Current
... populations off the coast, e.g., western rock lobster (Panulirus Cygnus), Australia’s most valuable single species fishery (Pearce & Phillips 1988; Caputi et al. 1995). ...
... populations off the coast, e.g., western rock lobster (Panulirus Cygnus), Australia’s most valuable single species fishery (Pearce & Phillips 1988; Caputi et al. 1995). ...
Interocean Exchange of Thermocline Water - Lamont
... spreads into the Indian Ocean down to depths of 1000 m. flux within the Banda Sea thermocline.The vertical temperReplacement of the water filling the deep basin of the Banda ature gradient is 10øC in 150 m (area 23 on Plate 205 of Sea by sill overflow is an active feature within the Indonesian Wyrtk ...
... spreads into the Indian Ocean down to depths of 1000 m. flux within the Banda Sea thermocline.The vertical temperReplacement of the water filling the deep basin of the Banda ature gradient is 10øC in 150 m (area 23 on Plate 205 of Sea by sill overflow is an active feature within the Indonesian Wyrtk ...
Guam 1
... Several other general comments bear mentioning in this section. First, the 30-day comment timeline, recently extended by two weeks, is grossly inadequate to review a 514-page document that took more than three years to complete. The dozens of ...
... Several other general comments bear mentioning in this section. First, the 30-day comment timeline, recently extended by two weeks, is grossly inadequate to review a 514-page document that took more than three years to complete. The dozens of ...
Chapter 23
... An American naval officer named Matthew F. Maury used records from navy ships to learn about ocean currents, winds, depths, and weather conditions. In 1855, he published these observations as one of the first textbooks about the oceans. Then, from 1872 to 1876, a team of scientists aboard the Britis ...
... An American naval officer named Matthew F. Maury used records from navy ships to learn about ocean currents, winds, depths, and weather conditions. In 1855, he published these observations as one of the first textbooks about the oceans. Then, from 1872 to 1876, a team of scientists aboard the Britis ...
oceans, seafloor, and continental margins
... •71% of Earth’s area consists of oceans and marginal seas like Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas ...
... •71% of Earth’s area consists of oceans and marginal seas like Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas ...
Oceanography
... Discuss at least three motives that historically have driven human exploration of the ocean. Relate the importance of ocean exploration to critical issues such as climate change, energy resources, ocean health, and human health. Explain how modern technologies such as computers, satellites, drifters ...
... Discuss at least three motives that historically have driven human exploration of the ocean. Relate the importance of ocean exploration to critical issues such as climate change, energy resources, ocean health, and human health. Explain how modern technologies such as computers, satellites, drifters ...
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.At 165.25 million square kilometers (63.8 million square miles) in area, this largest division of the World Ocean—and, in turn, the hydrosphere—covers about 46% of the Earth's water surface and about one-third of its total surface area, making it larger than all of the Earth's land area combined. The equator subdivides it into the North Pacific Ocean and South Pacific Ocean, with two exceptions: the Galápagos and Gilbert Islands, while straddling the equator, are deemed wholly within the South Pacific. The Mariana Trench in the western North Pacific is the deepest point in the world, reaching a depth of 10,911 metres (35,797 ft).The eastern Pacific Ocean was first sighted by Europeans in the early 16th century when Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 and discovered the great ""southern sea"" which he named Mar del Sur. The ocean's current name was coined by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the Spanish circumnavigation of the world in 1521, as he encountered favourable winds on reaching the ocean. He therefore called it Mar Pacifico in Portuguese, meaning ""peaceful sea"".