Sentences with phrase «ocean conveyor south»

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For decades, research on climate variations in the Atlantic has focused almost exclusively on the role of ocean circulation as the main driver, specifically the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which carries warm water north in the upper layers of the ocean and cold water south in lower layers like a large conveyor belt.

In the antarctic polar band (60 and south) there is no ocean at all, all water vapor coming in from the stratospheric conveyor belt (Hadley cell to temperate cell to polar cell), and in the north, there is an icy ocean mostly covered with floes and fast ice.

Without cooled water plunging into the deep ocean near Greenland, and turning back south, the entire conveyor belt will stop.

I think there are several AGW factors & other natural factors that go into higher Mexican Gulf SST, and we need to consider all of them — more shallow waters being heated more, & more rapidly than deep seas; the slowing of the thermo - haline ocean conveyor from fresh water pouring into the North Atlantic, leaving hot waters more stuck in place in the south.