2017 Cooling Ocean 
Real Climate
DECEMBER 17, 2022
An AMOC weakening by 15 % thus cools the region at a rate of 0.15 x 10 14 W and according to model simulations can fully explain the observed cooling trend (2). Here we start by taking the Greenland mass loss rate into the ocean, times the temperature difference between the meltwater and the water it replaces.
Real Climate
APRIL 2, 2021
2020), and can cause an increase in vertical wind shear over the Atlantic ( Kossin 2017 ; Ting et al. This would have a cooling effect on Atlantic SST, as well as a stabilizing effect on the regional atmosphere ( Dunion and Velden 2004 ), and would be expected to reduce tropical storm formation frequency for some (possibly prolonged) period.
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Frontiers
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Rob Lachlan As ocean temperatures rise, corals can lose their color due to heat stress. One of the worst mass bleaching events occurred in 2016 and 2017 on the Great Barrier Reef, causing bleaching on 91% of the system’s reefs.
Frontiers
AUGUST 7, 2023
For example, Antarctica acts to cool our planet by reflecting solar radiation back to space by virtue of the brightness of its snow surface. Several floating ice shelves – the massive slabs of ice that push back grounded ice from flowing into the ocean – have catastrophically broken up in a matter of days because of such melting.
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
About 90% of its farms are considered “family owned,” according to the 2017 US Department of Agriculture farm census. From 2002 to 2017, the most recent USDA farm census, the number of farms in Kings County declined 16.6%. It’s really, really not cool,” Vidovich said. . Like its neighbors, Kings is intensively farmed.
CEQA Developments
MAY 11, 2021
acre project site includes tide and submerged lands in the Pacific Ocean off Huntington Beach occupied by a “once-through” cooling system used in connection with an upland power generating station. The Lands Commission’s 2017 Supplemental EIR. Factual and Procedural Background. The Site and Desalination Plant Project.
HumanNature
APRIL 10, 2023
Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.
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