http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. New discoveries about the deep ocean's temperature variability and circulation system could help improve projections of future climate conditions. http://www.physorg.com/news179755953.html Space & Earth Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:13:24 EST news179755953 High-resolution computer simulations performed by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) are helping to understand the inflow of North Atlantic water to the Arctic Ocean and how this influences ocean climate. http://www.physorg.com/news179671472.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:00:07 EST news179671472 In the film, 'The Day After Tomorrow' the world enters the icy grip of a new glacial period within the space of just a few weeks. Now new research shows that this scenario may not be so far from the truth after all. http://www.physorg.com/news178804829.html Space & Earth Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:30:01 EST news178804829 Understanding mixing in the ocean is of fundamental importance to modeling climate change or predicting the effects of an El Niño on our weather. Modern ocean models primarily incorporate the effects of winds and tides. However, they do not generally take into account the mixing generated by swimming animals. http://www.physorg.com/news178119743.html Physics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:30:04 EST news178119743 (PhysOrg.com) -- Following the launch and in-orbit testing of the most sophisticated gravity mission ever built, ESA`s GOCE satellite is now in ‘measurement mode`, mapping tiny variations in Earth`s gravity in unprecedented detail. http://www.physorg.com/news173542298.html Space & Earth Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:40:01 EST news173542298 (PhysOrg.com) -- What do abrupt changes in ocean circulation and Earth's climate, shifts in wildlife populations and ecosystems, the global finance market and its system-wide crashes, and asthma attacks and epileptic seizures have in common? http://www.physorg.com/news171117206.html Biology Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:34:19 EST news171117206 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Chandler Wobble is a small variation in the rotation of the Earth on its axis. It has been known for some time that the phase of the Chandler Wobble jumped by 180 degrees in the 1920s, but a new study by scientists at the Russian Academy of Sciences has found that the same thing also happened in 1850 and 2005. But no one knows why. http://www.physorg.com/news171094752.html Physics Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:19:57 EST news171094752 A discovery about the moon made in the 1960s is helping researchers unlock secrets about Earth's ocean today. http://www.physorg.com/news170618291.html Space & Earth Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:30:07 EST news170618291 (PhysOrg.com) -- Although it may seem like gravity is the same everywhere on the Earth, it actually varies a small amount from place to place. Factors such as mountains, ocean trenches, and interior density variations can all cause gravity differences. By measuring the gravity field of Earth or another planet, scientists can gain insight into that planet's otherwise hidden geological features. http://www.physorg.com/news169130730.html Space & Earth Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:46:15 EST news169130730 Researchers have largely put to rest a long debate on the underlying mechanism that has caused periodic ice ages on Earth for the past 2.5 million years - they are ultimately linked to slight shifts in solar radiation caused by predictable changes in Earth's rotation and axis. http://www.physorg.com/news168791411.html Space & Earth Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:20:02 EST news168791411 The findings of a major new study are consistent with gradual changes of current systems in the North Atlantic Ocean, rather than a more sudden shutdown that could lead to rapid climate changes in Europe and elsewhere. http://www.physorg.com/news166973872.html Space & Earth Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:38:17 EST news166973872 Scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have successfully conducted the first remote detection of a harmful algal species and its toxin below the ocean's surface. The achievement was recently reported in the June issue of Oceanography. http://www.physorg.com/news166807443.html Space & Earth Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:50:11 EST news166807443 Melting of the Greenland ice sheet this century may drive more water than previously thought toward the already threatened coastlines of New York, Boston, Halifax, and other cities in the northeastern United States and in Canada, according to new research led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). http://www.physorg.com/news162647903.html Space & Earth Wed, 27 May 2009 12:58:48 EST news162647903 This afternoon, the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) was lofted into a near-Sun-synchronous, low Earth orbit by a Rockot launcher lifting off from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia. http://www.physorg.com/news156519344.html Space & Earth Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:36:24 EST news156519344 The launch of a pioneering European satellite designed to map Earth's gravity field was delayed due to technical problems and will take place Tuesday, Russia's Khrunichev Space Centre said. http://www.physorg.com/news156424210.html Space & Earth Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:36:37 EST news156424210 (PhysOrg.com) -- Global warming is expected to cause the sea level along the northeastern U.S. coast to rise almost twice as fast as global sea levels during this century, putting New York City at greater risk for damage from hurricanes and winter storm surge, according to a new study led by a Florida State University researcher. http://www.physorg.com/news156182801.html Space & Earth Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:07:45 EST news156182801 (PhysOrg.com) -- ESA is about to launch the most sophisticated of Earth Observation satellites to investigate the Earth`s gravitational field with unprecedented resolution and accuracy. http://www.physorg.com/news155833444.html Space & Earth Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:04:53 EST news155833444 (PhysOrg.com) -- New England lobstermen have gone high tech by adding low-cost instruments to their lobster pots that record bottom temperature and provide data that could help improve ocean circulation models in the Gulf of Maine. http://www.physorg.com/news155818404.html Space & Earth Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:54:16 EST news155818404 Very large and abrupt changes in temperature recorded over Greenland and across the North Atlantic during the last Ice Age were actually global in extent, according to an international team of researchers led by Cardiff University. http://www.physorg.com/news154790888.html Space & Earth Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:28:52 EST news154790888 A study reported in today's issue of Nature disputes a longstanding picture of how ice sheets influence ocean circulation during glacial periods. http://www.physorg.com/news145202102.html Space & Earth Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:55:02 EST news145202102 Earth scientists are attempting to predict the future impacts of climate change by reconstructing the past behavior of Arctic climate and ocean circulation. In a November special issue of the journal Ecology, a group of scientists report that if current patterns of change in the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans continue, alterations of ocean circulation could occur on a global scale, with potentially dramatic implications for the world's climate and biosphere. http://www.physorg.com/news145197809.html Space & Earth Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:43:29 EST news145197809