Sentences with phrase «conveyor belt currents»

Oddly shaped features with disturbing cycles and conveyor belt currents.

The influx could slow down or shut off the North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) formation, the driving factor behind the conveyor belt current known as thermohaline circulation, which brings large amounts of warm water to the North Atlantic region.

Not exact matches

It is failing under the current coalition government because of the presumption of a «conveyor belt theory» that has hardly any evidence to prove its validity.

The incoming water, part of the global conveyor belt of currents circulating throughout the oceans, is relatively warm and salty compared with the rest of the Southern Ocean.

The simulations suggest that over decades, these warming events dramatically perturb the ocean surface, affecting the flow of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a system of currents that acts like a conveyor belt moving water around the planet.

Thermohaline circulation, also known as the ocean's conveyor belt, refers to the deep ocean density - driven ocean basin currents.

The panelists emphasized the interconnectedness of the countries» ecosystems, separated by less than 100 miles of sea and situated among ocean currents that Wiley called «a veritable conveyor belt of marine life.»

After a brief respite, the Younger Dryas, between 12,800 to 11,500 years ago, froze Europe solid within a matter of months — probably as a result of meltwater from retreating glaciers shutting down the Atlantic Ocean's «conveyor - belt» current, although a cometary impact has also been blamed.

Like bus routes or conveyor belts, ocean currents must have a return loop.

Continued operation of the oceanic conveyor belt is important to northern Europe's moderate climate because of northward transport of heat in the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Current.

Look at the thermohaline conveyor belt, for one example of vertical currents.

MOC stands for Meridional Overturning Circulation, and although it refers to the same global pattern of ocean currents («conveyor belt») as the thermohaline circulation, this story shows why actually MOC is the more accurate name, as it is not just... Continue reading →

The complicated currents within the ocean slosh the growing heat around, in 2D (ENSO, PDO, NAO, AO, AAO) and 3D (thermohaline conveyor belt, coastal upwellings, ocean terrain dependent vertical currents, etc).

These range from few years (Beaufort gyre 4 years, Circumpolar current 8 years, Indian ocean gyre 10 years, N. Atlantic subpolar gyre 20 years etc.) up to above 100 years for some of the Pacific gyres, and finally the great ocean conveyor belt estimated at ~ 1600 years.

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.

«A key heat storage mechanism, they say, is the «conveyor belt» current that moves salty tropical water to the North Atlantic, where it sinks, carrying heat with it.»

Though sailors had long known of these oceanic conveyor belts, the first truly systematic description of global currents was published in «The Physical Geography of the Sea» (Harper & Brothers, 1855) by Matthew Fontaine Maury, the head of the U.S. Navy's Depot of Charts and Instruments.

The German climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf outlined his theory about the reason for the current conveyor belt of strong storms over at «Real Climate»:

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 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 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.

One of the central factors in determining how oil moves is the loop current, which swirls around in the center of the Gulf like an underwater conveyor belt, transporting water in and out of the basin in a giant circle.

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Peter Ward on the consequences of this development: «When [the global ocean current conveyor belt] stops, we lose oxygen at the bottom, and we start the process toward mass extinction.»

Like our atmospheric currents, our oceans function as conveyor belts.