Sentences with phrase «colder surface water»

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.

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.

Many readers seem to think the «+» means positive as in «warm surface water» and that, conversely, the «--» means negative as in «cold surface water».

Thanks Bill for this — nice graphics, though we are still left with the question of what the ultimate driver is — winds respond to pressure differences, and pressure differences can result from warm / cold surface waters or....

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.

The amount of detrital petrological tracers transported by icebergs and deposited in the ice - rafted debris belt (an Atlantic region between 40 - 50 ° N) greatly increases during episodes of southward and eastward advection of cold surface waters and drift ice from the Nordic and Labrador seas (Bond et al., 2001; figure 48 A).

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

That's not to say that water is not abundant there - but it's so cold on Titan (with a surface temperature of -180 ℃) that water behaves like rock and sand.

Calculations indicate that in several ways it is quite an Earth - like planet: its radius is 1.2 to 2.5 times that of Earth; its mass is 3.1 to 4.3 times greater; and, crucially, its orbit lies within its star's «Goldilocks zone», which means its surface temperature is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water - and therefore potentially life - to exist on its surface.

After having my first child and becoming so aware of what I was spraying in our house to clean surfaces including his highchair, I discovered that I could clean with just fibres and cold water to get a deep pore clean.

For crust 2-3/4 cups all - purpose flour plus more for work surface 2 teaspoons granulated sugar 1-1/4 teaspoons kosher salt 2-1/4 sticks (18 tablespoons), cold unsalted butter, cubed 4 to 6 tablespoons ice water

Throw the cut potatoes into a large pot and fill it with cold water, enough to cover the potatoes over 2 inches above their surface.

3 cups all - purpose flour, plus more for work surface (420 gr) 3/4 cup cake flour (105 gr) 1 1/2 teaspoons salt (7 gr) 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 1 / 2 - inch pieces, well chilled (60 gr) 1 1/4 cups cold water (295.5 ml) 1 tablespoon all - purpose flour (14 gr) 1 3/4 cups (3 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, well - chilled (405 gr) 1 / Make the dough package: In a large mixing bowl, combine both flours with the salt.

Bloom the gelatin by sprinkling 1/2 teaspoon powdered gelatin evenly onto the surface of 2 tablespoons of cold water in a small cup.

Rinse the pork chops under cold water, then dredge both sides of each wet pork chop in the paprika, making sure the entire surface of both sides is covered with paprika.

Rinse thoroughly with cold water to remove the extra starch on the surface.

After 10 minutes remove the lid from the sauce pan and transfer the eggs to a bowl with cold water for 5 minutes, then crack the eggs (I like to roll each egg on a flat surface for 20 seconds before I peel it, makes it a lot easier to peel), cut them in half and add the egg yolks into a bowl, set the egg whites aside

After boling your eggs (see the recipe for instructions) and letting them rest in cold water for 5 minutes, roll each egg on a flat surface for 20 seconds, then peel them under cold water... whala!

Like when you; re making pancakes, the pan is ready when a drop of cold water «skips» across the surface before sizzling into nonexistence.

To cook the BEET: place it in a pot with water covering a few inches over its surface; boil over high heat until fork - tender (about 10 minutes); remove beet from water with tongs; run it under cold water to remove skin (carefully using fingers to help skin fall off); set aside to cool.

Pour in cold water to cover by 1 1/2» and bring to a simmer over medium heat, skimming foam from surface as needed.

If the surface is very cold (below the freezing point of water) the condensed water vapor freezes, this is what we see as frost.

Condensation is a phase transition of matter that occurs when water vapor contained in hot, humid air comes in contact with a cold surface.

«When the weather fluctuates between warm and cold and in bodies of water where there are currents underneath the ice, it can weaken the surface of the ice and make it dangerously fragile even though it seems to be frozen solid,» said Joe Pecoraro, manager of the Park District's Beaches and Pools Unit, who narrated the demonstration.

The cool resilient surfaces soothe and stimulate sore gums safely and stays colder, longer than water filled teethers!

Satellites had spotted cold tongues of surface water extending westward from the South American coast, an indicator of a strong La Niña, El Niño's opposite number.

Scientists aren't sure why the blob formed, though many blame a ridge of high pressure that brought sunnier weather and less mixing of surface water with colder, deeper water.

In areas that are both bright and cold, water ice may be present on the surface as frost.

They identified wind patterns that mixed the warmer surface and colder deep waters to cool the ocean's surface and reduce the intensity of the storm.

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.

Muscles must stay warm to remain efficient, but that's a challenge for these beasts because they often swim in near - freezing waters, either in cold regions of the world or deep below the sun - warmed surface.

However, in their wake, hurricanes set up large - amplitude waves that mingle warm surface water with colder deep water, says climate scientist Matthew Huber of Purdue University.

«We are in awe that an animal that spends most of its time on the surface of sea ice could swim constantly for so long in water so cold.»

Chan says that lighter warm water creates a cap over the colder depths, making it less likely that deeper waters — where everything from «plankton to whale poop» sucks up oxygen — will rise to mix with the oxygenated surface.

The fog is a gift of the Pacific Ocean's California Current where winds create upwellings that bring cold, deep, nutrient - rich waters to the surface.

The team found that during Martian winter, conditions throughout the cold but humid nights would allow liquid water to be stable in the first 5 centimetres of the surface.

It also helps that carbon dioxide is more soluble in colder waters, and that the churning winds mix the waters at the surface, allowing the gases to penetrate the waters more easily.

Today, cold water sinks near the Arctic and flows deep below the surface of the Atlantic toward the southern oceans, where it rises up.

The Michigan Tech chamber works differently due to cloud mixing between a hot and cold surface, the same process that forms clouds or fog over a lake on fall days when the water temperature is warmer than the air temperature.

In a live shark, Brown says, suddenly swimming into slightly colder water would produce a gradient between the ampullae, under the shark's skin, and the pores, on the skin's surface.

If you stick your foot in cold water, touching a hot surface with your hand will hurt less.