Sentences with phrase «cold surface water»

Thus, the static stability of the near - surface water increases and the convective mixing of cold surface water with the relatively warm subsurface water is reduced, thereby contributing to the reduction of sea surface temperature in the Circumpolar Ocean.

That is particularly striking, he added, because it's what we're observing right now: an increase in cold surface waters around Antarctica and Greenland, as well as increases in sea ice around some parts of Antarctica.

That is particularly striking, he added, because it's what we're observing right now: an increase in cold surface waters around Antarctica and Greenland, as well as increases in sea ice around some parts of Antarctica.

The injection of so much cold water, they say, could lead to a stratification of the water column, with warm water buried underneath cold surface water.

Instead of warm water collecting off the coast of South America like in El Niño, La Niña is characterized by colder surface water near South America.

The warming reached a depth of about 10,000 feet (4,000 meters), interfering with the normal circulation process in which colder surface water descends, taking oxygen and nutrients deep into the ocean.

Because only very cold surface water is able to sink, it is simple to understand that the deep ocean can never warm up, regardless of how warm the surface ocean around the world may become.

And this, at least in certain areas, has pushed cold surface waters away from the continent, allowing slightly warmer water to rise to the surface and melt ice shelves, Rignot said.

This change exposed the bottom of the ice shelf to colder surface waters rather than to the warmer, deeper layer, thereby reducing heat transfer from the ocean to the overlying ice and decreasing basal melting of the ice by more than 50 % compared to 2010.

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 increased albedo from melting arctic ice should not matter very much, but the newly exposed cold surface water might absorb extra carbon dioxide, acting as a negative feedback on the whole system.

Matthew Marler, the area of cold surface water is variable with ENSO and PDOs, for example.

The injection of so much cold water, they say, could lead to a stratification of the water column, with warm water buried underneath cold surface water.

In spring, using the Great Lakes as an example, the cold surface waters begin to warm; when they reach 4 °, they become dense enough to sink.

Species: Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) Habitat: deep in the North Atlantic and the cold surface waters of the Arctic

About 19 months after the wind churned the ocean, cycling warm deep waters upward and sending the cold surface waters down, the Totten ice shelf was noticeably thinner and had sped up.

By continuing to run the pump, colder surface water will mix with warmer, more stable temperatures in the pond bottom where fish take comfort and hibernate.

1 — The colder surface water would mean that far less energy is being lost to space, making the energy imbalance even worse.

The models project that the ocean's coldest surface waters, such as in the Weddell Sea of Antarctica, will become corrosive to pteropods much sooner than thought.

More directly, the colder the surface water, the harder it is for heat to escape from that water given a warm atmosphere and hence more of the incoming heat is retained in the ocean.