Sentences with phrase «deep water currents»

Seems to me David's mistake is not noticing that the rapid events are internal to the climate system, not external; they may cause fast changes in albedo for example for a while; and they are modeled, see Dr. Bitz's work on Arctic sea ice, or any model including volcanos or Atlantic deep water currents etc..

Dense water sinks and can form deep water currents that flow along the ocean floor or on another layer of denser water.

19 Deep Water Currents Make up about 90 % of oceans» water Differences in density cause them to move.

7 The movement of deep water currents is caused by: salinity of the water — the more salt there is in water, the heavier it is.

Much was made about the thermohaline current in the Atlantic, a deep water current assumed to exist and built into all computer models.

Not exact matches

In his first interview with a business magazine since his appointment, Papp — who spent four decades with the Coast Guard — talks to Fortune about drilling in the Arctic, working with Russia amid the current geopolitical turmoil, and the need to invest in everything from icebreakers to deep - water ports.

«Son of man, bathe yourself in the ocean of matter; plunge into it where it is deepest and most violent; struggle in its currents and drink of its waters.

In streams, he is a heavy - water fish, and moves by preference in deep, fast - moving currents.

When salty ocean water flows through the magnetic field, an electric current is generated and this, in turn, induces a magnetic response in the deep region below Earth's crust — the mantle.

Levin says that the Pacific's deeper currents keep its waters less oxygenated than those of the Atlantic.

The fog is a gift of the Pacific Ocean's California Current where winds create upwellings that bring cold, deep, nutrient - rich waters to the surface.

Antarctica's strong Circumpolar Deep Current circles the entire continent, driven by strong winds called westerlies, which also create the Southern Ocean's dangerous and choppy waters.

Even as phytoplankton blooms sequester new carbon, the upwelling of deep, subsurface water currents in the region bring old, once - sequestered carbon back to the surface waters, allowing for exchange with the atmosphere.

When the researchers switched the electric current off by deoxygenating the water, thereby removing the electron acceptor at the sediment surface, the depth of the hydrogen sulfide layer in the sediment rose in less than an hour, as deeper microbes could no longer consume it.

Beatty believes that when 570 degree Fahrenheit water from thermal vents hits cold, deep ocean currents, several light - producing processes may occur: sonoluminescence from imploding gas bubbles; chemiluminescence from chemical reactions (analogous to fireflies lighting up); crystalloluminescence from the formation of crystal bonds; and triboluminescence from the breaking of those bonds.

The kite and cable model is designed to facilitate placing tidal turbines in deep water, where the stronger current has the potential for providing greater power but also makes it extremely difficult to plant a turbine in the seabed.

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The water, 2000 km wide and 100 m deep, has affected ecosystems, changed weather inland, and altered ocean currents from Alaska to Mexico.

Koombana Bay's shallow and slow water currents mean that mixing with water from the deep ocean takes a long time.

When the team ran the model with rivers, the freshwater diluted the salty surface waters of the tropics and subtropics and shut off the deep currents.

Also, increase of melt water in the East Greenland Current may cause a weakening in the deep convection in the Nordic Seas.

The tanks held seawater with a range of pH levels reflecting current conditions as well as the lower pH occasionally encountered in Puget Sound when deep water wells up near the surface.

Deeper water remained unusually warm, especially in the northern part of the California Current.

One outcome emphasised by experts is that if society continues on the current high emissions trajectory, cold water coral reefs, located in the deep sea, may be unsustainable and tropical coral reef erosion is likely to outpace reef building this century.

Arrays monitor circulating currents in the Atlantic Ocean, in which warm shallow waters move north (red), while cold deep waters move south (blue).

The wind changes were found to be heaving warm currents from deeper waters up into a zone where the Antarctic ice sheet is vulnerable to melt and crumble from beneath — the area where towers of ice sit atop submerged ground.

Current research suggests that ancient coral reefs began as deep, dark communities that evolved into highly diverse systems by establishing communities in shallower water environments with more light.

Gage and Gordon take issue with claims by Rudall Blanchard Associates, Shell's consultants, that the deep ocean «supports a small range of species»; that deep - water fishing does not take place in the area; and that water currents at the site are what atmospheric meteorologists would call «dead calm».

What they discovered is a near - perfect system in which krill aggregations situated over the Palm Deep Canyon — a region of nutrient - rich waters that produce a lot of food for the krill — are delivered close to shore by tidal currents and winds.

«As revealed by monthly snapshots of sea surface height from satellite imagery and other estimates, the Loop Current from late winter through summer 2012 was positioned to the west of the shelf slope in deeper water,» Weisberg explained.

Ocean currents kept sediment from burying the wreck, and deep water protected it from surface storms.

With the removal of the warm surface waters, an upwelling current is created in the east Pacific Ocean, bringing cold water up from deeper levels.

In the abyssal realm, seafloor habitats under areas of deep - water formation (e.g., those in the North Atlantic and Southern Oceans) could experience a maximum decline in O2 concentration of 0.03 mL L — 1 by 2100 (i.e., a 0.5 % drop from current levels; Tables 2, 3; Figures 2, 3).

It is the dense waters formed by this process that set up the deep ocean current patterns.

Currents in the deep ocean exist because of changes in the density of sea water occurring at the surface.

Since deeper waters will be warmer, there is a possible link to the global ocean circulating currents that results in warmer water in polar regions.

Around the Antarctic Peninsula, changes in ocean currents, and in particular, changes in circumpolar deep water flowing onto the continental shelf, is melting ice shelves from below.

In addition, seamounts rising into the ocean create obstacles that shape ocean currents and direct deep, nutrient - rich waters up the sloping sides of seamounts to the surface.

So perhaps some deeper, darker (and more darkly comic) current flows through Smith's veins - an effervescent sort of ice water, perhaps - that allows him to live as comfortably as a New Yorker as he once did as a Midwesterner.

With Vision Cages, the combination of the debris guard, the deep base and the placement of the seed / water cups helps combat air currents to keep the majority of the waste and debris inside the cage.

They found the house, but the water around it was more than 6 feet deep, the current strong enough to sweep them away.

The site is characterised by the strong currents that make this a very exciting dive and the water colour here has to be the deepest blue that I have seen, so this site is aptly named «Blue Corner»

We tacked in the deep - water channel near Angel Island, heading back and forth across the bay as the current carried us toward the Golden Gate.

They ply the waters all the way to the little - visited northernmost islands in the Galápagos archipelago, where deep, cold, current - filled diving yields time with manta rays, whale sharks, sunfish, and hammerhead sharks.

Be careful to watch when you get to the end of the beach because you'll need to swim in before the current leads to deeper waters.

The Galapagos are considered a difficult diving destination, with cold waters, strong currents and deep drops.

The current usually flows eastward and is much stronger at the surface than in the deeper water.

As most of the dives in the Maldives are deeper than 18 meters (60 ft.), in moderate to strong current, it is recommended that divers complete the Advanced Open Water Course prior to arrival or have equivalent diving experience.

The top of the pinnacle starts at 18 meters and drops to 50 + The pinnacle is exposed and in deep water where currents can be fierce, so it best dived when conditions are ideal.

As most of the dives in the Maldives are deeper than 18 mete (60 ft.), in moderate to strong current, it is recommended that dive complete the Advanced Open Water Coue prior to arrival or have equivalent diving experience.