The Arctic Ocean may be the world's smallest, but it's becoming a critical region as climate change warms it more quickly than anywhere else on Earth.
Ocean acidification and ‘the blob’ Burning fossil fuels and releasing carbon dioxide into the air doesn't just alter the makeup of our atmosphere. Oceans, which absorb about 30 percent of the CO2released into the atmosphere, are also highly susceptible to the changes taking place in a warmin...
Glacial to interglacial changes in ocean and atmosphere chemistry. In Berger, A. (Ed)., Climate Variations and Variability: Facts and Theories: Hingham, MA (D. Reidel), 111-121.Glacial to interglacial changes in ocean and atmosphere chemistry, in Climatic Variations and Variability: Facts and ...
The Tethyan Ocean dominated global ocean circulation during most of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. This low lat- itude ocean basin allowed water mass exchange between the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans that resulted in a global climate system markedly different than that of today. This low ...
Life in the ocean gave the atmosphere all of its oxygen, starting in the Proterozoic Eon billions of years ago. Life itself arose in the ocean. Geochemically speaking, the ocean has allowed Earth to keep its precious supply of hydrogen locked up in the form of water, not lost to outer ...
Atlantic Ocean Facts: Lesson for Kids Lesson Transcript Instructors Ekta Purswani View bio Amanda Robb View bio Learn about the Atlantic Ocean and see where it's located. Explore the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean and study Atlantic Ocean facts, such as its climate. Updated: 11/21...
Oceanographic conditions in the South East Atlantic are largely controlled by basin-scale, ocean–atmosphere interactions over the South Atlantic. In the East Atlantic Ocean, the ‘meteorological equator’ or Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is to be found several degrees north of the geographical...
“The discrepancies between the climate models and the observed temperature trend at the beginning of the 20th century are mainly due to an incomplete understanding of the observations, rather than incomplete climate models or natural climate variability. There are well-established approaches to account...
Evaporation, precipitation, movement of the atmosphere, and the downhill flow of river water, glaciers, and groundwater keep water in motion between the reservoirs and maintain the hydrologic cycle. The large range of volumes in these reservoirs and the rates at which water cycles between them ...
Marc has taught Bachelor level students climate science and has a PhD in climate science. Energy transfer in the atmosphere, ocean, and Earth's interior occurs as a result of three basic processes: convection, conduction, and radiation. In this lesson, you will explore these three processes in...