News tagged with water circulation
Regional models expect drier, stormier western United States
As American southwestern states struggle against ongoing drought, and the Northwest braces for a projected shift from a snow- to a rain-dominated hydrological system, climate researchers strive to provide precipitation projections ...
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Mar 31, 2012 |
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Huge pool of Arctic fresh water could cool Europe
British scientists have discovered an enormous dome of fresh water in the western Arctic Ocean. They think it may result from strong Arctic winds accelerating a great clockwise ocean circulation called the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 23, 2012 |
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How ocean arteries carry life across the Indian Ocean
Research at the University of Melbourne and the Bureau of Meteorology has overturned conventional ideas of ocean circulation.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Aquarius to illuminate links between salt, climate
When NASA's salt-seeking Aquarius instrument ascends to the heavens this June, the moon above its launch site at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base won't be in the seventh house, and Jupiter's latest alignment ...
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May 12, 2011 |
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New fresh water in Arctic could shift Gulf Stream
Scientists are monitoring a massive pool of fresh water in the Arctic Ocean that could spill into the Atlantic and potentially alter the key ocean currents that give Western Europe its moderate climate.
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Apr 05, 2011 |
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Study sheds light on how heat is transported to Greenland glaciers
Warmer air is only part of the story when it comes to Greenland's rapidly melting ice sheet. New research by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) highlights the role ocean circulation ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Researchers seek new ways to boost catfish production
(PhysOrg.com) -- A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist is exploring new ways to enhance farm-raised catfish production with a device he calls the "see-saw."
Nov 23, 2010 |
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Water mission reveals insight into Amazon plume
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's SMOS water mission has taken another step forward by demonstrating that it will lead to a better understanding of ocean circulation. Using preliminary data, scientists can clearly see ...
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Sep 03, 2010 |
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New Research Model Improves Lobster Population Forecasting
(PhysOrg.com) -- Managing the Gulf of Maine’s $300 million lobster industry has been a practice mostly reliant upon the physical size of adult stocks, a system called stock assessment and one that’s made policymaking largely ...
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Whiter clouds could mean wetter land
One proposed emergency fix to halt global warming is to seed clouds over the ocean to make them more reflective, reducing the solar radiation absorbed by the Earth. But the scheme could also change global rainfall patterns, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Subsurface Oil Exists: USF Researchers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Layers of degraded oil found suspended at depths of 400 meters to 1,400 meters.
Jun 11, 2010 |
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Understanding ocean climate
High-resolution computer simulations performed by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) are helping to understand the inflow of North Atlantic water to the Arctic Ocean and how ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Bridging the political divide across the Gulf of Aqaba
Scientists from Stanford University have teamed up with Israeli and Jordanian researchers to protect the Gulf of Aqaba, a strategic waterway whose fragile marine ecosystem is vital to both Israel and Jordan. ...
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Melting Greenland ice sheets may threaten Northeast United States, Canada
Melting of the Greenland ice sheet this century may drive more water than previously thought toward the already threatened coastlines of New York, Boston, Halifax, and other cities in the northeastern United ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 27, 2009 |
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