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  • Impact of Artificial Reservoir Water Impoundment on Global Sea Level

    • B. F. Chao, Y. H. Wu, Y. S. Li
      Original article citation: Science doi:10.1126/science.1154580 (2008)

    • Categories: Anthropogenic change and Ocean Sciences
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 03/27/2008 05:44PM GMT
      
      I wrote up this paper - the first detailed tally of water locked up behind dams during the 20th century, with some surprising implications for global sea level rise - as a Research Highlight in NRCC this week (http://www.nature.com/climate/2008/0804/full/climate.2008.27.html). The lead author told me that the IPCC already was not quite able to account for observed sea level rise in terms of thermal expansion of warming surface water, ice melt, and other known sources of increasing ocean volume. Adding up these sources still left a slight gap in the budget. Now, with the finding that damming has prevented 3 cm of rise, the gap is even larger. Something must have made up for the water removed into reservoirs - but what? And on another note, what do you make of the way the sea level rise flattens to a constant rate for the last 80 years when the stored water is added back?
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  • Significant contribution of the 18.6 year tidal cycle to regional coastal changes

    • N. Gratiot, E. J. Anthony, A. Gardel, C. Gaucherel, C. Proisy, J. T. Wells
      Original article citation: Nature Geosci doi:10.1038/ngeo127 (2008)

    • Categories: Ocean Sciences
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 02/19/2008 10:47AM GMT
      
      Which is more likely to radically reshape shorelines - global sea level rise or regional cycles? Gratiot et al. find that the impact of 18.6-year natural tidal cycles on the Guyanas coastline in South America dominate the effects of global sea levels.
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  • Potential role of the ocean thermostat in determining regional differences in coral reef bleaching events

    • Joan A. Kleypas, Gokhan Danabasoglu, Janice M. Lough
      Original article citation: Geophys. Res. Lett. 35," (2008).

    • Categories: Ocean Sciences, Regional Climate, Climate Impacts, and Biodiversity & Ecology
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 02/14/2008 03:39PM GMT
      
      A previously proposed 'ocean thermostat' in the Western Pacific Warm Pool seems to protect corals there from bleaching, says this paper from Kleypas et al.
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  • Mass and volume transport variability in an eddy-filled ocean

    • Carl Wunsch
      Original article citation: Nature Geosci doi:10.1038/ngeo126 (2008)

    • Categories: Ocean Sciences and Climate Impacts
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 02/11/2008 01:18PM GMT
      
      True changes in the North Atlantic ocean circulation due to climate change are nearly impossible to identify, according to Wunsch et al. This is due to the background variability caused by naturally occurring eddies. The findings imply that measurements in three dimensions over several decades would be necessary to determine whether climate change has affected the ocean's circulation.
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  • Bacterial carbon processing by generalist species in the coastal ocean

    • Xiaozhen Mou, Shulei Sun, Robert A. Edwards, Robert E. Hodson, Mary Ann Moran
      Original article citation: Nature 451," 708 - 711, (2008).

    • Categories: Biodiversity & Ecology and Ocean Sciences
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 02/07/2008 04:32PM GMT
      
      Mou et al. examine how marine bacteria contribute to the ocean's carbon cycle using an experimental metagenomics approach. This allows them to analyze metabolic capabilities throughout the community of bacteria, rather than characterizing individual taxa.
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  • Mesoscale Eddies Drive Increased Silica Export in the Subtropical Pacific Ocean

    • C. R. Benitez-Nelson, R. R. Bidigare, T. D. Dickey, M. R. Landry, C. L. Leonard, S. L. Brown, F. Nencioli, Y. M. Rii, K. Maiti, J. W. Becker, T. S. Bibby, W. Black, W.-J. Cai, C. A. Carlson, F. Chen, V. S. Kuwahara, C. Mahaffey, P. M. McAndrew, P. D. Quay, M. S. Rappe, K. E. Selph, M. P. Simmons, E. J. Yang
      Original article citation: Science 316," (2007).

    • Categories: Ocean Sciences
    • Recommended by the Editor: Olive Heffernan on 06/06/2007 09:21PM GMT
      
      This recent paper by Claudia Benitez-Nelson and colleagues in Science is interesting because it shows that mesoscale eddies, large patches of swirling water soem 100-200m across, actually play a critical role in releasing oceanic carbon back to the atmosphere. It was previosuly assumed that they helped to transport carbon from the surface to deeper waters.
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  • Thermal Stress and Coral Cover as Drivers of Coral Disease Outbreaks

    • John F. Bruno, Elizabeth R. Selig, Kenneth S. Casey, Cathie A. Page, Bette L. Willis, C. Drew Harvell, Hugh Sweatman, Amy M. Melendy
      Original article citation: Plos Biol 5," (2007).

    • Categories: Climate Impacts, Ocean Sciences, and Biodiversity & Ecology
    • Recommended by the Editor: Olive Heffernan on 06/06/2007 09:19PM GMT
      
      A nice piece of work by John Bruno of the University of North Carolina, US and colleagues, which we've covered as a highlight on NRCC. They use high-res satellite imagery of ocean temperature with epidemiological inspections of corals to track the spread of white disease along Australia’s Great Barrier Reef over 6 years. It's the first conclusive evidence of a link between the frequency of warm years and the severity of the disease on corals.
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  • Observational evidence for an ocean heat pump induced by tropical cyclones

    • Ryan L. Sriver, Matthew Huber
      Original article citation: Nature 447," (2007).

    • Categories: Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Impacts, and Ocean Sciences
    • Recommended by the Editor: Olive Heffernan on 06/06/2007 09:18PM GMT
      
      Ryan Sriver and Matthew Huber of Purdue University, Indiana, present substantive evidence in this Nature paper that tropical cyclones play a critial role in mixing the upper layers of the ocean. Ocean mixing transports heat from the tropics to cooler regions, so this has climate implications. The concept isn't new, but it's a solid piece of work as they have more data and longer sampling periods than previous studies. They also auggest that climate change could increase cyclone-induced mixing and heat transport in the future.
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