The word 'oceans' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it as a noun to refer to large bodies of water, or as an adjective meaning very large. For example, you can say, "The oceans of the world are home to a wide variety of unique species."
Previous estimates put the amount of heat accumulated by the world's oceans over the past decade equivalent to about 4 Hiroshima atomic bomb detonations per second, on average, but Trenberth's research puts the estimate equivalent to more than 6 detonations per second.
Thanks to new photographic techniques derived from medical imagery and the ocean schooner Tara, which has spent years plying the oceans collecting plankton, we can now see the astonishing richness of what is known as the "drifting world".
She was the first woman to fly solo around the world, the first woman to fly across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, the first woman to do so in a single engined-plane, the first woman to fly the Atlantic from the US to Africa, and the first woman to fly the Pacific west to east.
Over 90 percent of the overall extra heat goes into the oceans, with only about 2 percent heating the Earth's atmosphere.
Since that time, Trenberth's research has shown that the deep oceans have absorbed more heat than at any other time in the past 50 years.
Mainly the size of the cooling effect due to human aerosol pollution remains highly uncertain, and while the oceans have been warming rapidly, just how rapidly is another unsettled question.
A series of studies have since identified a number of factors, including heat transferred into deep oceans and small volcanic eruptions, that affected the temperature at the surface of the Earth.
Instead of shipboard romance we found dramatic cactus deserts and oceans seething with marine life.
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These relate to four key factors: Evolving climate science No one knows precisely how much warming will be caused by any given build up of CO2 in the air, nor how much of the carbon we emit will stay in the atmosphere, as opposed to getting soaked up by oceans and plants.
scapaflow.co.uk kjaa4456 From Cape Town, you can dive both the Indian and Atlantic oceans, and the mingling currents create great variety.
