How is the ocean warming? How does the carbon cycle affect the ocean? How does ocean acidification affect the geosphere? How do deep ocean currents affect climate change? How can pollution affect the water cycle
How do deep ocean currents affect climate change? How does the evaporation of ocean water "purify" it? Why is ocean salinity on average lower at the equator? How does ocean acidification affect the atmosphere? How does the carbon cycle affect the ocean?
Wind, tides, and the Earth’s rotation play a role in ocean currents. Currents are also driven by different water densities—not all seawater is the same, and differences result in flow from one part to the other. How do ocean currents affect climate? The global system of ocean currents h...
Although life in shallow marine environments was thriving, recent geochemical research suggests that the deep ocean was euxinic (e.g., Thompson and Kah, 2012). However, it is still unclear how this deep ocean euxinia may have affected the GOBE.TOURE, Nancy...
Globally, surface air and ocean temperatures have warmed by about 1°C since 1900. More than 90% of the additional heat contained in the climate system (atmosphere, ocean, land) due to global warming is stored in the ocean, so what do these increased ocean temperatures mean for our we...
NASA's Terra satellite captured this thermal (heat) image of Category 5 Hurricane Maria in 2017. Yellow and orange are the warm ocean waters, and blue and white are the hurricane's tall, cool cloud tops.(Image credit: NASA) How climate patterns affect hurricanes ...
How do the cryosphere and hydrosphere affect ocean salinity? The Cryosphere: The cryosphere is the part of the earths water supply that is frozen. Most of the ice that comprises the cryosphere is located in the polar ice caps in places such as Antarctica and Greenland. ...
Marine microbes are major primary producers, influence our climate, dictate the flow of marine energy and nutrients, and provide medicines and natural products. How plastics and their associated leachates affect microbial life at the base of the marine food web is still poorly understood (Tetu et...
Why? It's the first global ocean biogeochemistry model that: (1) ingests both physical and biogeochemical observations into the model in a realistic manner; and (2) considers how the nature of the ocean carbon sink has changed over multiple decades. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
sediment by turbidity currents can create distinct ecosystems, such as at the end of the Congo system18,19. These sometimes very powerful flows can also scour life from floors of submarine canyons20, and this study therefore also illustrates how turbidity currents affect deep-sea life in ...