Sentences with phrase «deep water formation regions»

Two modes of ocean circulation are considered: a thermohaline overturning cell, essentially vertical, which involves global scale upwelling into the surface followed by sinking in deep water formation regions; and an approximately horizontal cell which connects the abyss directly with deeply convecting waters in deep water formation regions.

The GSA seems to have originated from a large discharge of ice from the Arctic to the key deep water formation regions of the North Atlantic.

Not exact matches

The Maligne Canyon, a 164 feet (50 metres) deep gorge of sheer limestone walls with a number of interesting rock formations, is very popular with tourists, as is Maligne Lake - the largest glacier - fed body of water in the region.

The fact that the hindcasts with their method perform worse than a standard IPCC scenario, the number of failed previous cooling predictions, the negative skill in the Gulf Stream and deep - water formation regions... should these not have cautioned them against going to the media to forecast a pause in global warming?

It is enhanced too by the formation of deep water in the polar regions, but slowed by the warming of the surface ocean.

The undetected «threshold» scenario that I posed in # 11 could be more generally characterized as a shift in the thermo - haline circulation (THC) caused by an emergent new source region for deep water formation.

The observed variability of the western boundary current system will be related to the variability of the AMOC at the deep - water formation sites of the North Atlantic as well as the Agulhas region concerning the signal propagation within the AMOC.

The influx could slow down or shut off the North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) formation, the driving factor behind the conveyor belt current known as thermohaline circulation, which brings large amounts of warm water to the North Atlantic reWater (NADW) formation, the driving factor behind the conveyor belt current known as thermohaline circulation, which brings large amounts of warm water to the North Atlantic rewater to the North Atlantic region.

Furthermore, the low - frequency variability in the SPG relates to the propagation of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) variations from the deep - water formation region to mid-latitudes in the North Atlantic, which might have the implications for recent global surface warming hiatus.»

As a result, the fast and slow responses are nearly opposite to each other in spatial pattern, especially over the subpolar North Atlantic / Southern Ocean regions of the deep - water / bottom - water formation, and in the interhemispheric SST gradient between the southern and northern subtropics.

With the use of a climate model of intermediate complexity, we demonstrate that with mwp - 1A originating from the Antarctic Ice Sheet, consistent with recent sea - level fingerprinting inferences, the strength of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) formation increases, thereby warming the North Atlantic region and providing an explanation for the onset of the Bølling - Allerød warm interval.

Decreases in both upwelling and formation of deep water and increased stratification of the upper ocean will reduce the input of essential nutrients into the sunlit regions of oceans and reduce productivity (Cox et al., 2000; Loukos et al., 2003; Lehodey et al., 2003; Sarmiento et al., 2004a).