A University of Utah study suggests something amazing: Periodic changes in winds 15 to 30 miles high in the stratosphere influence the seas by striking a vulnerable «Achilles heel» in the North Atlantic and changing mile -
deep ocean circulation patterns, which in turn affect Earth's climate.
Not exact matches
Scientists believe that the different
pattern of
deep ocean circulation was responsible for the elevated temperatures 3 million years ago when the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere was arguably what it is now and the temperature was 4 degree Fahrenheit higher.
Thanks to the natural
circulation pattern, that oxygen would then be carried
deeper into the
ocean interior, where it might still be detectable years later as it travels along its flow path.
There is so little understanding about how the
ocean parses its response to forcings by 1) suppressing (local convective scale)
deep water formation where excessive warming
patterns are changed, 2) enhancing (local convective scale)
deep water formation where the changed excessive warming
patterns are co-located with increased evaporation and increased salinity, and 3) shifting favored
deep water formation locations as a result of a) shifted
patterns of enhanced warming, b) shifted
patterns of enhanced salinity and c) shifted
patterns of
circulation which transport these enhanced
ocean features to critically altered destinations.
But certainly models with such a grand name as «General
Circulation Model», would include average diurnal atmospheric circulation patterns in tropics, and diurnal and seasonal patterns at latitudes outside the tropics, as well as heat transfer to the de
Circulation Model», would include average diurnal atmospheric
circulation patterns in tropics, and diurnal and seasonal patterns at latitudes outside the tropics, as well as heat transfer to the de
circulation patterns in tropics, and diurnal and seasonal
patterns at latitudes outside the tropics, as well as heat transfer to the
deeper ocean.
These
ocean upwelling conditions occur beneath a complementary downwelling branch of the atmosphere's Hadley
circulation — a planetary - scale flow
pattern in both hemispheres that takes humid air ascending at low latitudes, heats and desiccates it in
deep precipitating tropical clouds, and then sinks it at midlatitudes, where it is considerably warmer and drier than it was.