Sentences with phrase «deep water formation so»

Why are any changes in (imbalances of) deep water formation so critical?

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It is thought that the formation of this so - called «deep water» helps drive the AMOC, but the first 21 months of data from OSNAP aren't conclusive.

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.

The blue curve shows an early decrease already in the 19th century, which Thornalley and colleagues attribute to an earlier warming at the end of the so - called «Little Ice Age», when the inflow of meltwater could have slowed the formation of deep water in the Labrador Sea.