The data enable climate models to include accurate representations of ocean currents and circulation.
So, by way of the ocean currents, the impact would initiate a long-term cooling.
Local temperatures would still change in some places, as would ocean currents, rainfall patterns, soil moisture and photosynthesis.
Iceland has three different ocean currents surrounding it: the warm southwest current, the mixed north current and the cold east current.
The navigator will ensure Nyad is swimming in the right direction and guiding her to avoid detrimental ocean currents.
This would include that the sun is almost certainly the main driver (via ocean currents) of the Earth's climate.
Saltwater crocodiles enjoy catching a wave and can travel hundreds of kilometres by "surfing" on ocean currents, a study suggests.
The flow in the model represents the best estimate of how ocean currents are likely to respond under typical wind conditions.
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These garbage patches are vortices that form where two ocean currents meet, in effect a giant oceanic toilet that never flushes.
But it has been well dispersed by ocean currents, according to marine chemist Ken Buesseler at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.
What is possible, however, is to estimate a range of possible trajectories, based on the best understanding of how ocean currents transport material.
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Dr Marsden reckons the technique might even improve understanding of how water from melting ice caps will affect ocean currents, including the Gulf Stream.
Such eggs could catch ocean currents and spread into different niches.
Great white sharks are attracted to the warm ocean currents along Australia's southern coastline and are a constant concern for divers who work in the sea.
Researchers are using a nuclear submarine to take them beneath the Arctic ice cap to study ocean currents that may have an effect on global climate.
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It could change the frequency of the Pacific pattern known as El Nino, a cycle of peculiar weather that affects ocean currents and rainfall across the planet.
The exact location of the crash has not been determined, because ocean currents probably caused the bodies and debris to drift in the days since the crash.
Computer models of modern climate suggest that temperature changes could affect ocean currents, and recent research has found indications that it is happening now in the north Atlantic.
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He is paid to measure the thickness of the winter ice, ocean currents and weather patterns in and around Grise Fiord for research institutions in Toronto and Vancouver.
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Guldberg says as scientists see ocean currents change, fish and squid carried in those currents often move farther offshore too far for the mutton birds to reach them.
The ship's power is set to come from solar, wind and wave power with biofuel in case nature doesn't cooperate -- when the vessel isn't adrift via ocean currents.
"Ice shelves are sensitive to atmospheric warming and to changes in ocean currents and temperatures, " Helmut Rott from the University of Innsbruck said in an statement from the space agency.
Goudey, the director of the MIT Sea Grant's Offshore Aquaculture Engineering Center, has devised a system by which giant spherical cages of fish would drift underwater in circular ocean currents, or gyres.
Scientists have been puzzling for some time over exactly what combination of factors is preventing the earth getting even warmer - maybe changes in solar activity, ocean currents or emissions of aerosol pollution.
Plus the rig also must be kept at the same position, so energy must be expended fighting the ocean currents, and mud must be pumped, workers helicoptered on and off the rig, drilling materials delivered, etc.
It is an extremely complex measurement, because there are so many factors at work: shifting ocean currents, the dynamics and movement of large ice shelves, and the varying temperature and saltiness of water at different places.
En route to Australia, Plastiki will sail through the infamous North Pacific Gyre, now home to "The Great Garbage Patch, " named due to the high levels of waste that have been drawn there by ocean currents.
Researchers are also watching the behavior of the ice that covers Antarctica, where a study published last week concluded that warmer ocean currents are eating away at the ice shelves around the rim of the continent.
Anyone living in the U.K., France, Iceland or other parts of central or southern Europe can thank this clockwise rotation of winds and ocean currents bringing heat and energy from North America for their relatively predictable weather.
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