Sentence examples for oceanic change from inspiring English sources

The mid-Cretaceous constitutes a period of worldwide atmospheric and oceanic change associated with slower thermohaline circulation and ocean anoxic events, possible polar glaciations and by a changing climate pattern becoming controlled by a zonal planetary wind system and an equatorial humid belt.

But for over four decades, with the blessing of Makah leaders, Tatoosh has been the object of intense biological scrutiny, and scientists say they are seeing disturbing declines across species — changes that could prove a bellwether for oceanic change globally.

Instead, our data support the idea that changes in primary productivity and related abundance of prey played a key role in shaping the phylogeography of the dusky dolphin, with timing of oceanic change coincident with the dates of important events in the history of dolphin populations.

For now, there's no way to link the atmospheric and oceanic changes, said Jeffrey J. Polovina, an oceanographer with the National Marine Fisheries Service in Honolulu and an author of the analysis, which has been published in Geophysical Research Letters.

Atmospheric and oceanic changes are responsible, they say, because they have altered the properties of the shelf water and the wind patterns to cause more and warmer water to enter the fjord.

Even after the horrific loss of life at the World Trade Center, a traveler returning to the city in October 2001 after a decade away would have been more struck by the oceanic changes of the previous 10 years — brought on by money, development and children — than by the caesura of the previous month.

In reality, she says, "oceanic changes happen on time scales of thousands of years...

Winton et al. (2010) argued that the decadal scale adjustment clearly contains the oceanic changes, and hence, it is more appropriate to regard the adjustment as a part of the feedback, rather than as a part of the forcing.

The Earth is unfathomably complex system and creating an accurate model of its climate requires scientists to model hundreds of subsystems and the ways these systems interact everything from macro-level atmospheric and oceanic changes to the rates at which plants recycle carbon dioxide.

Issues will include harvest and mariculture fisheries, land-sea interactions and oceanic climate change in both surface and deep waters.

Kato, Y., Nakao, K. & Isozaki, Y. Geochemistry of Late Permian to Early Triassic pelagic cherts from southwest Japan: implications for an oceanic redox change.