Sentences with phrase «cooler nutrient rich waters»

Feeding The Cassin's auklet feeds offshore, often relying on upwellings of cooler nutrient rich waters and associating with bathymetric landmarks such the continental shelf and underwater canyons.

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This change reduces the upwelling of cool subsurface water and cuts off the supply of nutrient - rich cold water upwelling from below.

The cool nutrient - rich waters of the north Pacific are able to provide kelp forests with millions of plankton - the base of the aquatic food chain — due to an upwelling of water from the deep sea in the stormy, winter months.

The mingling of cool, nutrient - rich waters from the north with warm currents from the south form a dynamic transition zone that is home to a myriad of sea life from microscopic plankton to blue whales.

When winds blow surface water away, it is replaced by cooler, nutrient - rich waters from the deep that support a variety of marine life.

A cooler surface facilitates upwelling of cool and nutrient rich abyssal water and vice versa.

The typical V of a cool Pacific decadal phase can be seen in the Pacific with uprising of cold and nutrient rich water in both the north and south east.

That layer prevents cooler, nutrient - rich water from reaching the surface.

A cool PDO and a La Niña are the result of cold and carbon dioxide and nutrient rich water from the oceanic abyss upwelling on the eastern Pacific margin.