Sentences with phrase «deep currents linking»
The Southern Ocean plays a pivotal role in the global overturning circulation, a system of surface and deep currents linking all oceans and one of the fundamental determinants of the planet's climate.
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These revealed a surprising link between stratospheric winds and ocean currents as deep as 2 kilometers beneath the waves.
Since deeper waters will be warmer, there is a possible link to the global ocean circulating currents that results in warmer water in polar regions.
EMBRACE aims to significantly improve the parameterization of deep convection and its link to important modes of tropical climate variability in current ESMs.
Specifically, if the variability controlling the current hiatus is linked to longer - term sequestration of heat into the deep ocean, this might require us to recalibrate future projections.
Because of this second difficulty, a measure of the Deep Western Boundary Current (DWBC) transport has traditionally been considered a shortcut to the measure of the AMOC: while the upper limb of the AMOC was considered inextricably linked to the much more energetic wind - driven circulation, the lower limb was considered to be «channeled» through the DWBC.