Sentences with phrase «southern ocean bottom»

Heuzé, C., Heywood, K. J., Stevens, D. P. & Ridley, J. K. Southern Ocean bottom water characteristics in CMIP5 models.

The oxygen isotopic composition and temperature of Southern Ocean bottom waters during the last glacial maximum.

Not exact matches

Work done in the southern hemisphere's summer, December through January 2012 - 13, included drilling holes in the ice to place a variety of instruments and using radar to map the underside of the ice shelf and the bottom of the ocean.

«Unraveling the drivers of large iceberg movement: Tabular icebergs can drift through the Southern Ocean for eight years or more, and predominantly melt at the bottom.»

Bathyal seafloor habitats in the North Pacific, North Atlantic, Arctic and Southern Oceans could experience a reduction in bottom - water oxygenation by 0.03 — 0.05 mL L — 1 by the year 2100 (Table 2; Figure 2), which represents a reduction in water column O2 levels by 0.7 % — 3.7 % (Table 3; Figure 3).

So the Southern Ocean around Antarctica advects in Pacific water to replace what goes out the bottom.

• The methanetrack.org website has shown significant increases in atmospheric methane concentrations over Antarctica this austral winter (which I believe are due to increases in methane emissions from the Southern Ocean seafloor due to increases in the temperature of bottom water temperatures), and if this trend continues, then the Southern Hemisphere could be a significant source of additional atmospheric methane (this century).

Work done in the southern hemisphere's summer, December through January 2012 - 13, included drilling holes in the ice to place a variety of instruments and using radar to map the underside of the ice shelf and the bottom of the ocean.

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(01/02/2014) Resting near the bottom of the foodchain, Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) underpin much of the Southern Ocean's ecosystem.

These carry the North Atlantic's excess salt southward from the bottom of the Atlantic, down into the southern oceans, and some continues into the Pacific Ocean.

Azaneu, M., Kerr, R., Mata, M. M. & Garcia, C. A. E. Trends in the deep Southern Ocean (1958 — 2010): implications for Antarctic Bottom Water properties and volume export.

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The initial weakening is mainly driven by the anomalous surface heat flux in the subpolar North Atlantic, as suggested by previous studies, while the final slow strengthening could be attributed to the reduction of brine rejection in the Southern Ocean and the subsequent weakening of Antarctic Bottom Water.

For example, I'm using ocean models to study how the Southern Ocean might melt the Antarctic Ice Sheet from the bottoocean models to study how the Southern Ocean might melt the Antarctic Ice Sheet from the bottoOcean might melt the Antarctic Ice Sheet from the bottom up.

Our climate model exposes amplifying feedbacks in the Southern Ocean that slow Antarctic bottom water formation and increase ocean temperature near ice shelf grounding lines, while cooling the surface ocean and increasing sea ice cover and water column stabiOcean that slow Antarctic bottom water formation and increase ocean temperature near ice shelf grounding lines, while cooling the surface ocean and increasing sea ice cover and water column stabiocean temperature near ice shelf grounding lines, while cooling the surface ocean and increasing sea ice cover and water column stabiocean and increasing sea ice cover and water column stability.

As a result, the fast and slow responses are nearly opposite to each other in spatial pattern, especially over the subpolar North Atlantic / Southern Ocean regions of the deep - water / bottom - water formation, and in the interhemispheric SST gradient between the southern and northern subSouthern Ocean regions of the deep - water / bottom - water formation, and in the interhemispheric SST gradient between the southern and northern subsouthern and northern subtropics.

The new bottom water circulates south, mingles somewhat with Antarctic bottom water around southern Africa, and increasingly mixes back upward in the southwest Indian Ocean.

Scientists looked at radiocarbon levels in the shells of microscopic animals which lived both near the surface and on / near the bottom of the Southern Ocean, and found large quantities of carbon locked away in «old deep water» around Antarctica.