Sentences with phrase «deep oceanic waters»

Callendar suggested that the top layer of the ocean, that interacts with the atmosphere, would easily become saturated with carbon dioxide and that would affect its ability to absorb more, because, he thought, the rate of mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters was likely to be very slow.

Basically, although the gas is indeed easily absorbed by sea - water, it is the timescales that matter: mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters takes place over hundreds to thousands of years but sea - water can de-gas parts of its carbon dioxide payload over much, much shorter periods.

Upwelling of deep oceanic waters along continental margins release large concentrations of CO2, as the rising water warms and CO2 stability in water diminishes releasing the gas back into the atmosphere.

Our findings require a reassessment of the role of the Southern Ocean in determining the impact of atmospheric warming on deep oceanic waters.

Turneffe Island is located 20 Miles east of Belize City, Belize and is surrounded by deep oceanic waters.

Basically, although the gas is indeed easily absorbed by sea - water, it is the timescales that matter: mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters takes place over hundreds to thousands of years but sea - water can de-gas parts of its carbon dioxide payload over much, much shorter periods.

it is probably whatever equates to 3 degrees C... which is the average deep oceanic water temperature.)

Not exact matches

Note that Ekman pumping does not penetrate deep into the oceanic interior, but since the trades advect the surface waters westward, the upper layer of warm sea water is deeper in the west than in the east.

Climate - driven variation affects oceanic communities from surface waters to the much - overlooked deep sea....»

Cocos Island off Costa Rica, the Galapagos Islands, Socorro in Mexico, Madivaru Corner in the Maldives, and the coast of Malaysian Borneo which features oceanic islands and deep water atolls such as Layang Layang, are among the best dive locations for sightings.

The great flow of Arctic deep water comes mainly from THC and is fed with NAD.It prooves the great sinking of water in this zone and the great oceanic heat transfer.

Note that Ekman pumping does not penetrate deep into the oceanic interior, but since the trades advect the surface waters westward, the upper layer of warm sea water is deeper in the west than in the east.

Since, if I remember correctly, subduction generally occurs when a dense oceanic plate dives under a less dense continental plate, you'd have to get the waste to the seafloor and then bury it there in such a way that it wouldn't leak into the water before it sank deep enough into the Earth to be safely forgotten about.

This deep water convection is the engine (pump) of the oceanic thermohaline conveyor circulation.

This water was then transported to the higher latitudes, contributing to the weakening of deep oceanic circulation, thereby reinforcing the cooling above and around the North Atlantic.

Water columns are much more strongly stratified in the tropics than in higher latitudes, so it takes a lot less energy to move parcels from deep oceanic layers to the surface in high latitudes — and, not surprisingly, this is where most communication occurs between deep and surface waters.

Likewise the oceanic mixed layer (the top one or two hundred meters of water that is roughly constant in temperature compared to deeper down, due to wave - induced mixing in that layer) delays global warming but does not stop it.

Doug Cotton, doesn't it strike you as odd that the simple physical model that Geoff Wood presents, and that your and fellow members of Principia Scientific International (PSI) defend so vociferously, applies with equal force to (1) the water molecules in the 10,000 - meter gravitational column of the oceanic Challenger Deep, and (1) the air molecules in the 100,000 - meter gravitational column of the atmosphere over the Challenger Deep.

The Antarctic ice sheet reached the coastline for the first time at ca. 33.6 Ma and became a driver of Antarctic circulation, which in turn affected global climate, causing increased latitudinal thermal gradients and a «spinning up» of the oceans that resulted in: (1) increased thermohaline circulation and erosional pulses of Northern Component Water and Antarctic Bottom Water; (2) increased deep - basin ventilation, which caused a decrease in oceanic residence time, a decrease in deep - ocean acidity, and a deepening of the calcite compensation depth (CCD); and (3) increased diatom diversity due to intensified upwelling.

Water now returning to the surface having entered deep ocean during the MWP may be inducing release of oceanic CO2 in response to altered pH, and this release could be expected to provide the steady increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration (of at least 1.5 ppm / year) that is observed to be independent of temperature variations.

Global warming could have especially strong impacts on the regions of oceanic subpolar fronts, where the temperature increase in deep water could lead to a substantial redistribution of pelagic and benthic communities, including commercially important fish species.

A truth about oceanic geology is that in very deep water (along the oceanic floor) at cooler temperatures (~ 4 deg C) CaCO3 is not stable due to the higher acidity and higher concentrations of CO2.

These alongshore stresses act in concert with the Coriolis force to drive offshore oceanic (Ekman) transport that in turn pumps deep, cold water up to the coastal margins.

The temperature regime is very different to onshore permafrost and deeper oceanic hydrates, and sensitive to warming of the shallow coastal waters over the ESAS.

-LSB-... * Salinity in the sea fell sharply during the Permian for the first time, changing oceanic physics to make deep water circulation more difficult.