Sentences with phrase «cold conveyor belt»

The circulation around this high is injecting cold, dry air into the storm system, feeding it through what meteorologists know as a «cold conveyor belt.»

The cold conveyor belt lies ahead of and beneath the warm frontal surface in the cold air.

The cold conveyor belt travels westwards relative to an eastwards travelling system resulting in weak earth - relative winds, except if it hooks all the way around the system to the west of the system centre — in this case you can see very strong surface winds associated with the cold conveyor belt.»

Not exact matches

The southern continents broke up, and, as South America and India migrated north, the Antarctic become isolated and increasingly cold, absorbing more CO2 and creating a conveyor - belt - like effect of cold air that perpetuated ice.

Today the North Atlantic has a deep, cold, salty layer that is crucial to the ocean's «conveyor belt» circulation.

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.

Eventually, the cold bottom waters returm to the surface through mixing and wind - driven upwelling, continuing the conveyor belt that encircles the globe.

The conveyor belt system can be thought of as beginning near Greenland and Iceland in the North Atlantic where dry, cold winds blowing from northern Canada chill surface waters.

Dr. Sue Gray, from the University of Reading, replies «The warm conveyor belt ascends up the cold frontal surface in the warm sector and then ascends over the warm front.

During his study, Wallace Broecker discovered that the currents in the Atlantic Ocean sort of work like a conveyor belt, bringing warm water up from the equator and sending cold water down to the equator.

Vertical diffusivity of the mixed layer into the thermocline, one way from warm mixed layer to cold abyss because of 2LoT, is the most reasonable explanation if we discount conveyor belt speed increase.

The AMOC is known as the «global conveyor belt» because it brings warm water and temperatures to the eastern US and Europe, and recycles cold water from northern latitudes back down to the tropics.

An Ocean Current Out of the Blue The discovery that a long - suspected ocean current — the North Icelandic Jet — contributes a large amount of cold, dense water to the global ocean conveyor belt that regulates climate in the Northern Hemisphere has thrown a wrench into scientists» understanding of how the ocean will respond to climate change.

Essentially, the study proposes that climate feedbacks could work completely and totally against us, as warm water becomes trapped on top of a layer of colder Antarctic waters due to a near total shutdown in the global ocean conveyor belt, which circulates ocean heat from the coast of Antarctica to Newfoundland.

That sinking of cold, salty water «drives the three - dimensional oceanic conveyor belt circulation.