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Category Archives: Oceanography
Carbon Isotope Excursions and Carbon Limitation of Primary Productivity in the Biosphere
Carbon Isotope Excursions and Carbon Limitation of Primary Productivity in the Biosphere Gordon Lehman, Trunkmonkey, Gymnosperm; sheepherders, ignoramuses all Abstract The conception of natural history as an economic struggle was developed by Geerat Vermeij (1). “Supply side” interpretations of δ13C … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Climate, Climate Change, Economics, Geography, Geology, History of Life, Oceanography, Paleoclimate
Tagged banded iron formation, Climate, Earth, environment, Isotopes of carbon, Jonathan Payne, Michael Benton, Permian, Permian-Triassic, Permian–Triassic extinction event, science, Triassic
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Too Much on my Plate
I’ve been getting annoyed with the grade school conception of “plate” tectonics where everyone is identifying plates and their relative motions and saying stuff like the Japan Earthquake of 2011 was caused by the Pacific Plate sliding under Japan. It … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Geology, Oceanography
Tagged Earthquake, earthsciences, Indo-Australian Plate, Japan, Pacific Ocean, Pacific Plate, Subduction
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Deeper Doo Doo for Dendrochronology
Indices of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation are in close agreement for the period of the last seventy years. The NASA Multivariate Index and the Mantua Index only go back a hundred or so and they correlate very closely. These shorter … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, Geography, Oceanography, Paleoclimate, Paleogeography
Tagged China, Dendrochronology, Hockey Stick, Limber Pine, NASA, pacific decadal oscillation, PDO
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Picturesque
So if the oceanic circulation looks like this: And the resulting 2500m (deep) ocean age looks tile this: Then what does this mean? Why should a PDO index that basically describes which side of the Pacific Ocean the ancient deep water … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, Geography, Oceanography
Tagged el nino, global surface temperature, global temperature, mjo, oceanic circulation, pdo index
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Viejo indeed! When the big dog stirrs…
El Viejo, (the old one) is an alternative name developing for the La Niña phase of the El Nino Southern Oscillation, ENSO. Much has been written on the impact of ENSO on global temperature, and many are coming to understand the importance of … Continue reading
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