Sentences with phrase «relatively warm salty water»

Relatively warm salty water is pushed upwards by ocean currents moving over a ridge in the Weddell sea.

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A very cold but relatively fresh water layer covers a much warmer and saltier water mass, thus acting as an insulating layer,» explains Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif, head of the Research Division at GEOMAR.

The incoming water, part of the global conveyor belt of currents circulating throughout the oceans, is relatively warm and salty compared with the rest of the Southern Ocean.

That water is relatively warm and salty compared with other water in the ocean, so researchers could map its path upward and around Antarctica.

Velicogna and her colleagues also measured a dramatic loss of Greenland ice, as much as 38 cubic miles per year between 2002 and 2005 — even more troubling, given that an influx of fresh melt water into the salty North Atlantic could in theory shut off the system of ocean currents that keep Europe relatively warm.

This circumpolar deep water, which is relatively warm and salty compared to other parts of the Southern Ocean, has warmed and shoaled in recent decades, and can melt ice at the base of glaciers which reduces friction and allows them to flow more freely.