Sentences with phrase «cold ocean depths»

This also helps the seal conserve body heat when down in the cold ocean depths.

Whale sharks that make lengthy dives into the cold ocean depths to forage tend to spend a lot of time at the surface warming up afterward, a new study suggests.

Not exact matches

Deep water is cold, dense water that sinks to the ocean depths.

And around Antarctica, where even the surface ocean water is already quite cold and dense, some of that water in the ocean depths, which is also carbon rich, eventually warmed enough so that it became less dense than the water above it.

The Gates - backed plan proposes using a fleet of wave - powered rafts to spread a slick of colder ocean water pumped up from the depths in the path of an onrushing storm.

The land probably began to warm up again after a few years, but the marine fossils indicate that the ocean depths stayed cold for another two millennia.

Scientists are creating a massive global database of marine creatures, revealing tremendous biodiversity ranging from the ocean's shallows to its cold, dark depths

Despite their hidden nature, internal waves are fundamental parts of ocean water dynamics, transferring heat to the ocean depths and bringing up cold water from below.

The north - south gradient of increasing glacier retreat was found to show a strong pattern with ocean temperatures, whereby water is cold in the north - west, and becomes progressively warmer at depths below 100m further south.

Underneath this layer lies cold ocean water, and the Ekman pumping reaches sufficients depths in the east to bring some of this up to the surface.

The dark depths of our oceans are home to cold - water corals, sponge fields, seamounts, hydrothermal vents and a multitude of other ecosystems that shelter strange and mysterious creatures found nowhere else on Earth.

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The study also found that the movements of all of the ocean's marine life — from lowly phytoplankton to the largest whales — play a crucial role in bringing cold water from the ocean's depths to the surface.

Why are the tropical oceans still cold in the depths?

Well the tropical oceans are colder in the depths because the poles act as a heat sink.

First, CO2 outgases where cold water from the ocean depths surfaces at the equator to absorb solar radiation.

As for heat hiding in the ocean depths, one must first heat water and at the same time increase its density, otherwise it will just float on the denser, colder water below.

As Jo Nova describes meteorologist William Kininmonth's «deep cold abyss,» the ocean depths form a great pool of «stored coldness» which is «periodically unleashed on the surface temperatures,» a slumbering dragon that with a flick of its tail can grab away large amounts of surface warmth.

When the convective processes of the atmosphere remove enough water vapor from the oceans to drop sea levels and build polar ice caps, as has happened many times before, the top 35 meters of the oceans where climate models assume the only thermal mixing occurs, must heat up cold ocean water that comes from depths below the original 35 meter depth, removing vast more amounts of heat from the earth's surface and atmosphere.

I point out that the energy budget cartoon you work to claims that shortwave from the Sun is the only source of directly heating Earth's land and oceans for it to radiate out the amount of thermal infrared, heat, claimed, and you come back with «it's not completely zero» and the idiocy of Tim's so called experiment to prove shash might be there at the cold depths..?

As a scientist, he predicted in 1797 that the cold water in the ocean depths had to be coming from Arctic latitudes, a cold deep counterpart to the warm surface Gulf Stream.

The oceans have a sun warmed surface layer overlaying the cold depths.

If Arctic waters become fresh this inhibits the flow of cold arctic waters to the depths warming the deep oceans.

When cold surface water no longer sinks into the depths, a deeper layer of warm ocean water can travel across the continental shelf and reach the bases of glaciers, retaining its heat as the cold waters remain above.

The irony is that Dr Kwiatkowski has only lately dismissed at least one ocean geoengineering solution — to cool the sea surfaces by pumping up cold water from the ocean depths — because, in the long run, it might make the climate change crisis even worse.

It is also often called an «overturning» circulation because cold, salty waters sink in the North Atlantic and travel back southward at deep ocean depths.

They explain the lesser warming in the East Pacific Ocean, near South America, as being due to the fact this region is kept cool by upwelling, rising of deeper colder water to shallower depths.