Sentences with phrase «cooler deep ocean waters»

All the sea surface water, warmed by the tropical sun, is blown to the west of the Pacific and, to compensate part of the imbalance, cooler deep ocean waters well up on the western shores of Latin America (and spread all the way up to the Solomon Islands).

That La Niña [generally leading to a cool year — because a lot of cool deep ocean water is spread out over a vast area of the Pacific, interacting with the atmosphere] may have been one of the strongest ever.

Not exact matches

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.

Even as the surface warms, the deeps remain cool, and this cold water will continue to periodically push the ocean out of the El Niño state.

Warm and saline water transported poleward cools at the surface when it reaches high latitudes and becomes denser and subsequently sinks into the deep ocean.

Essentially, the researchers found that deeper warm water is increasingly mixing with the cool layer of water that traditionally lies atop the eastern part of the Arctic Ocean.

The deep circulation that drives warm surface waters north is weakening, leading to a cooling of the north Atlantic relative to the rest of the oceans.

A new paper from the Sea Around Us Project published in the journal Nature reveals that warmer ocean temperatures are driving marine species towards cooler, deeper waters, and this in turn, has affected global fisheries catches.

If the correlations were positive, that temperatures matched Scenario B, would you accept skeptics saying, «Sure, but really, Scenario C is more useful», and if the ocean - heat data looked like Lyman (2010), them saying «Sure, but that's only because deeper heat is being transfered to the surface and replaced by cooler waters, but we can't see it»?

«Since the ocean component of the climate system has by far the biggest heat capacity», I've been wondering if the cool waters of the deep ocean could be used to mitigate the effects of global warming for a few centuries until we have really depleated our carbon reserves and the system can begin to recover on its own.

This may lead to long term heating and warming cycles in the oceans that are the result of upwheling of cool water from deep within the oceans.

IF cool deep sea water were mixed relentlessly with surface water by some engineering method --(e.g. lots of wave operated pumps and 800m pipes) could that enouromous cool reservoir of water a) mitigate the thermal expansion of the oceans because of the differential in thermal expansion of cold and warm water, and b) cool the atmosphere enough to reduce the other wise expected effects of global warming?

Even assuming that the dataset is comprehensive: Considering that the upper - ocean cooling is seen mainly at 30N and 30S, another explanation for this cooling is increased ocean — to — atmosphere heat transfer in these regions (possibly aided by hurricane - mixing of the upper ocean layer, and advection of deeper cold water as a result).

Consenquently, the associated SST pattern is slightly cooler in the deep convection upwelling regions of the Equitorial Pacific and the Indian Ocean, strongly cooler in the nearest deep convection source region of the South Atlantic near Africa and the Equator, warm over the bulk of the North Atlantic, strongly warmer where the gulf stream loses the largest portion of its heat near 50N 25W, and strongly cooler near 45N 45W, which turns out to be a back - eddy of the Gulf Stream with increased transport of cold water from the north whenever the Gulf Stream is running quickly.

eadler2 January 10, 2015 at 5:54 pm ... When ocean surface temperatures cool, due to a La Nina, the warmer surface water is mixed deeper into the ocean and cooler ocean water flows along the surface of the Pacific.

When ocean surface temperatures cool, due to a La Nina, the warmer surface water is mixed deeper into the ocean and cooler ocean water flows along the surface of the Pacific.

Either a big chunk of ice has been melting extraordinarily fast — which would cool the surrounding air — or somehow ocean currents would have changed in a way that favoured more rapid warming of deep water.

Due to the Antarctic Refrigerator Effect, the deep oceans continued to cool, and the thermocline that separates warm surface water from cooler deep waters became increasingly more shallow.

The resulting formation of Antarctic sea ice expelled colder, salty waters that filled the abyss and began cooling the deep oceans.

Between 2 and 3 million years ago the cooling of the deep oceans reached a tipping point, and modern upwelling regions ogf cold deep water off the coast of Peru, California and the west coast of Africa were established.

Without cooled water plunging into the deep ocean near Greenland, and turning back south, the entire conveyor belt will stop.

Since 4C is about the average of the deep ocean, more cooling on one side or the other of the convergence zone changes the average temperature of the sinking water.

This becomes silly because, evidently, the warmer deep ocean water is not too cold to provide warming in a polar winter, an environment that doesn't just cool water down, it freezes it solid.

Um... while the oceans as a whole would have to cool, the sea surface would have to warm up substantially in order to transfer lots of heat to the air (and in order to warm up substantially, I suppose there would have to be reduced circulation with cold deeper waters).

As gryes spin up and dilute the thermocline with cooler water — more turbulent deep ocean flow push to the surface.

The «strong trade winds,» says study co-author Gerald Meehl of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, «are bringing cooler water to the surface in the equatorial Pacific and mixing more heat into the deeper ocean.»

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) uses the temperature difference between the warm tropical surface water and the cooler, deep water in the ocean to generate enOcean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) uses the temperature difference between the warm tropical surface water and the cooler, deep water in the ocean to generate enocean to generate energy.

This global tidal «standing wave» leads to a long term disspation of tidal power of ~ 1 terra Watt which is sufficent to provide about 1/2 of the total power needed to drive the up welling of cool water from the deep oceans.

Either this is a truism (the sun must be heating the ocean surface first) or it is meant to take into account the complex circulations that occur in the ocean, like the Gulf Stream's involvement in a vertical rise of waters from deep ocean layers in one region and sinking of the cooled surface waters as the stream reaches its northern limit.

Remember that part of the ocean circulations brings up deep cooler water to the surface and this rate varies which is why the surface temperature varies.

As part of the planet's reciprocal relationship between ocean circulation and climate, this conveyor belt transports warm surface water to high latitudes where the water warms the air, then cools, sinks, and returns towards the equator as a deep flow.»

Currents that move through the upper ocean then dive down to depth may move some of the surface heat to the deeper waters, especially where the currents have dived not just from cooling water (hot water would tend to go up, cold water would tend to go down) but because it is driven in «conveyor» systems which may run counter to expectations of where water should go when considering only local conditions, and especially, if the water is dropping because of an increase in salinity.

47 Warm, shallow current Cold, salty, deep current Fig. 20 - 12, p. 476 Figure 20.12 Natural capital: a connected loop of shallow and deep ocean currents stores CO2 in the deep sea and transports warm and cool water to various parts of the earth.

The second is a temperature driven process where cold water sinks at the poles cooling the deep ocean.

except we've measured the deep ocean temperatures and found that those waters are holding the increased warming during one of the natural warming / cooling cycles.

This leads to a thin (1 mm deep) layer of cooler water over the oceans worldwide and below the evaporative region that is some 0.3 C cooler than the ocean bulk below.

This gas is then cooled using water from deep beneath the ocean to restart the cycle.

Of course, if the air were to be warmer than the ocean surface then evaporation would take the extra energy required from the air rather than the water and that 1 mm deep layer (0.3 C cooler than the ocean bulk) would rise to the surface and dissipate but that doesn't happen often or for long.

Thus, cooling during the last 5.33 Myr in the Southern Ocean site of deep water formation was smaller than the global average cooling.

Heat does transfer from the warmer upper part of the ocean to the deeper cooler part, not the other way around as you claim, but it's balanced by flows of cold water descending into the deep ocean near the poles.

Swanson and Tsonis (2009) suggest that decadal surface cooling and warming results from a change in energy uptake in the deep oceans or a change in cloud and water vapour dynamics.

As the Earth's surface cools further, cold conditions spread to lower latitudes but polar surface water and the deep ocean can not become much colder, and thus the benthic foraminifera record a temperature change smaller than the global average surface temperature change [43].

Over deep warm waters (right), hurricanes have the potential to be more powerful because the ocean surface cooling is significantly less.

From deep ocean cooling to water vapor and many other factors we do not really know what CO2 will do.

In such events, the oceans become stratified, with warm layers acting as «lid» on deeper, cooler water.

Re 99 should be:... Thus, global atmospheric temperatures were higher in the early Eocene (55 - 50 mya) than in the late Cretaceous (70 - 80 mya) while the deep ocean waters were cooler in early Eocene than in late Cretaceous.

The warming of the surface of the ocean is thought to increase stratification within the water column, preventing the nutrients in the cool deep ocean from rising to the surface.

This creates an effective barrier preventing bottom warmed water from reaching the surface (unless you believe in back - conduction of course; — RRB - Cooling of the deep oceans is only possible at high latitudes.

1 km ^ 3 magma will warm ~ 1500 km ^ 3 water 1K when cooling down to deep ocean water temperatures so it takes roughly 1 million km ^ 3 magma to warm all ocean water 1K.

Deep ocean water is remarkably uniformly cool, be it at the tropics or higher latitudes.