The Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC) project is asking to extend its two-year permit to operate low-frequency sonar under the water off Kauai another five years.
Researchers there conduct studies in astrophysics, biology, medicine, geology, glaciology and ocean and climate systems.
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Argo makes visible large-scale ocean and climate features and processes that were once hidden to scientists.
The WOC has created major interest and momentum for significantly scaling up ocean and climate observations by industry through a coordinated international program.
Argo data, along with satellite and other ocean data, feed into regional and global forecast models used for ocean and climate prediction over seasons, years, and decades.
The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) also contributes directly to the actions under the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change as the ocean component of the Global Climate Observation System (GCOS).
These blooms indicate proliferation of phytoplankton that is fundamental to ocean life and climate regulation.
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The data collected will be ocean temperature and salinity, crucial factors in both ocean circulation and climate.
The direct results of human activities on the ocean and through climate change are causing the blue part of this blue planet to warm, rise, and lose oxygen.
Today we flew to Fairbanks and went to the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, for presentations on the diversity of the Arctic Ocean and how climate change is impacting the region.
Oceans Day at Durban will draw high-level attention to ocean issues during the COP17 climate talks, highlighting the direct link between climate change, the health of the oceans, and human well-being, as well as the need for sufficient funding to support bold mitigation and adaptation measures that will minimize climate change impacts on coastal communities and ocean ecosystems and resources.
As such, they form an essential component of marine observing systems established as part of the World Weather Watch, the World Climate Research Programme, the Global Ocean Observing System, the Global Climate Observing System and other meteorological and oceanographic operational and research programmes.
Excess carbon dioxide is accelerating global warming, sea level rise, ocean acidification and overall climate change.
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This Southern California city has all the Pacific Coast perks: coastal living, sparkling weather, temperate climate, ocean views and golden sandy beaches.
Now more than ever, there is a need to increase our knowledge of the feedbacks between climate, ocean and changes induced by human activities.
Several programmes contribute to these efforts, including the Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology ( JCOMM) and the Ocean Observations Panel for Climate ( OOPC).
"For multi-decadal variability, over the historical period, the major cause was aerosols as opposed to climate change or ocean acidification, " he explained.
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Programmes target a wide range of national, regional and global challenges such as climate change, ocean health and fisheries, disaster warning and mitigation, capacity building, and data availability and exchange.
Els introduced some of NIWA's work on climate change including ocean acidification as well as introducing the group to NIWA's marine collection for the students to get an impression of the New Zealand's very rich marine biodiversity.
Customers will now have the ability to conduct missions, 24x7, through all weather conditions, across most of the planet to help solve some of the world's critical problems such as global climate change, ocean acidification, fisheries management, hurricane prediction, tsunami warning and exploration for valuable natural resources.
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The concept of a global ocean observing system grew from the realisation that understanding and forecasting climate change would require a long-term, multivariate ocean observing system.
Global efforts to collect and analyze scientific data also allow for the development of the predictive capacity for climate change and the ocean responses, and provide scientific support to governments to mitigate the losses caused by marine hazards.
If nearby ocean temperatures climb higher still, as climate projections would have them do, Ascension will probably become ever moister and greener.
Generally, years when climate and weather cause the ocean waters to well up, salting the water column with food, fish do better.
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This provides the vine with plenty of drainage, which is an important factor in a wet, northern climate influenced by the Atlantic Ocean.
But scientists who study whales are seeing migration patterns shifting as the result of climate change, as the ocean warms and food supplies change.
The satellite built in collaboration with France will carry two climate tools developed for analysing ocean current and sea surface heights by the French space agency CNES, reports say.
But the unexpectedly big effect that climate change could have on body size suggests that we may be missing a big piece of the puzzle of understanding climate change effects in the ocean.
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