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  2. The ocean current vital to regulating our weather - AOL

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    It exchanges heat, water and carbon with the atmosphere, helping to control our weather in Europe and marine ecosystems. Climate change is causing the planet to warm.

  3. Effects of climate change on oceans - Wikipedia

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    Warmer water cannot contain the same amount of oxygen as cold water. As a result, oxygen from the oceans moves to the atmosphere. Increased thermal stratification may reduce the supply of oxygen from surface waters to deeper waters. This lowers the water's oxygen content even more. [8] The ocean has already lost oxygen throughout its water column.

  4. Climate change - Wikipedia

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    While methane only lasts in the atmosphere for an average of 12 years, [120] CO 2 lasts much longer. The Earth's surface absorbs CO 2 as part of the carbon cycle. While plants on land and in the ocean absorb most excess emissions of CO 2 every year, that CO 2 is returned to the atmosphere when biological matter is digested, burns, or decays. [121]

  5. Effects of climate change on the water cycle - Wikipedia

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    The underlying cause of the intensifying water cycle is the increased amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which lead to a warmer atmosphere through the greenhouse effect. [3] Fundamental laws of physics explain how the saturation vapor pressure in the atmosphere increases by 7% when temperature rises by 1 °C. [4]

  6. Atmospheric science - Wikipedia

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    Atmospheric physics is the application of physics to the study of the atmosphere. Atmospheric physicists attempt to model Earth's atmosphere and the atmospheres of the other planets using fluid flow equations, chemical models, radiation balancing, and energy transfer processes in the atmosphere and underlying oceans and land.

  7. Climate system - Wikipedia

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    The atmosphere envelops the earth and extends hundreds of kilometres from the surface. It consists mostly of inert nitrogen (78%), oxygen (21%) and argon (0.9%). [4] Some trace gases in the atmosphere, such as water vapour and carbon dioxide, are the gases most important for the workings of the climate system, as they are greenhouse gases which allow visible light from the Sun to penetrate to ...

  8. Atmospheric circulation - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific Ocean cell plays a particularly important role in Earth's weather. This entirely ocean-based cell comes about as the result of a marked difference in the surface temperatures of the western and eastern Pacific. Under ordinary circumstances, the western Pacific waters are warm, and the eastern waters are cool.

  9. Why we need to think about the oceans differently - AOL

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    The oceans are not just a marine habitat. They are also a workplace, a highway, a prison, a grocery store, a trash can, a cemetery — and much more. Why we need to think about the oceans differently