News tagged with equation of state of seawater
New equation of state of seawater
Seawater is a complex, dynamic mixture of dissolved minerals, salts, and organic materials that despite scientists best efforts, presents difficulties in measuring its potential to contain and disperse energy. Like the water ...
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Taking the temperature of the ancient earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technique has allowed scientists to pin down the timing of ancient glaciations, linking them more firmly to two bursts of extinction.
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Mar 08, 2011 |
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Geobiologists uncover links between ancient climate change and mass extinction
About 450 million years ago, Earth suffered the second-largest mass extinction in its history—the Late Ordovician mass extinction, during which more than 75 percent of marine species died. Exactly what ...
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Jan 27, 2011 |
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Answer to what ended the last ice age may be blowing in the winds, paper says
Scientists still puzzle over how Earth emerged from its last ice age, an event that ushered in a warmer climate and the birth of human civilization. In the geological blink of an eye, ice sheets in the northern ...
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Jun 25, 2010 |
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Scientists refine, redefine seawater equation
This summer, one of the world's leading ocean science bodies, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO's) and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) adopted ...
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Jul 31, 2009 |
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Researchers determined huge pressures that melt diamond on planet Neptune
(PhysOrg.com) -- The enormous pressures needed to melt diamond to slush and then to a completely liquid state have been determined ten times more accurately by Sandia National Laboratories researchers than ...
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system
Anthropogenic forcing could push the Earth’s climate system past critical thresholds, so that important components may “tip” into qualitatively different modes of operation. In the renowned magazine Proceedings of ...
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Feb 04, 2008 |
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One of Deep Ocean's Most Turbulent Areas Has Big Impact on Climate
More than a mile beneath the Atlantic’s surface, roughly halfway between New York and Portugal, seawater rushing through the narrow gullies of an underwater mountain range much as winds gust between a city’s ...
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Aug 09, 2007 |
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