It argues that the manner in which the oceans are perceived, often as an alien landscape, can limit the way language is utilised in marine conservation efforts.
The speed with which the oceans are dying (the shrinking shark population is a clue) and the plight of "megafauna" comes up for discussion.
Below the entry fields and above the "LOGON" button, it will tell you which Ocean you are on and there is a button the says "Change" Hit this Button.
Maintenance of routine forecasts is a demanding task from the point of view of software engineering since it involves a number of new additional tasks difficult to code efficiently in the compiled languages in which ocean models are written.
"There are a lot of details about exactly which ocean basin is taking up the energy," says Andrew Dessler, an atmospheric scientist at Texas A&M University, College Station, who wasn't involved in the study.
In contrast, the photosynthetic algae, which feed the open oceans, are usually too small to be seen, but marine animals range to the size of whales.
Despite the disagreement on which ocean basin is doing what in the air-warming slowdown, however, a broader picture of Earth's climate is still emerging.
"It can kill things directly, by physiological effects, of which ocean acidification is the best known, and it can kill things by changing the climate.
"We hope to have the possibility to measure the ocean currents which are so important for climate dynamics, because oceans are transporting a lot of heat.
