Sentences with phrase «deep water warmed»

-- Deep water warming in SH causes release of carbon from ocean sediments.

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Blessed with warm sunny weather all year round (roughly 300 days of sunshine a year), ringed by the Atlantic Ocean on one side and protected on the other by the calm, deep - blue waters of the Tagus River (the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula), this traditionally sophisticated city seems to have it all.
Standing in waist - deep warm water, our pastor stood with an arm around each person in turn: tell us your story, he said.
Standing in waist - deep warm water, our pastor stood with an arm around each person in turn:...
I used regular yeast, putting it in warm water first, 2 cups bread flour, one cup white whole wheat, and cooked it in my pampered chef deep covered stone baker.
3/4 cup warm water 1/4 cup sugar 1 1/4 teaspoon active dry yeast 1 egg 3/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup evaporated milk 3 — 3 1/2 cups flour 2 tablespoons shortening oil, for deep frying 1 cup powdered sugar
The water should be deep enough to keep him warm, but not so deep that he will start floating and become difficult to hold onto.
All you need is a bowl deep enough to fully submerge the bottle, and somewhere to get warm water.
As she pointed out, «If you found out you could have a baby in a warm, deep pool of water compared to flat on your back with people yelling at you to push, what would you choose?»
Furthermore, oxytocin production often increases when women are immersed in deep warm water, which can speed up labor without any increase in sensation / pain.
The data also show a land bump, or sill, at the mouth of Skinfaxe glacier, which prevents warmer, deep Atlantic water (yellow on temperature bar) from reaching the ice.
These troughs allow warmer and saltier waters from deeper in the ocean to reach the glaciers and erode them.
RAPID RETREAT New seafloor data reveal that Køge Bugt (shown) and other fast - retreating glaciers in southeastern Greenland sit within deep fjords, allowing warm Atlantic Ocean water to speed up melting.
«It may be that the cooler, deeper water in MCEs could be more hospitable to many species than the warmer surface water,» she said.
They found glacial fjords hundreds of meters deeper than previously estimated; the full extent of the marine - based portions of the glaciers; deep troughs enabling Atlantic Ocean water to reach the glacier fronts and melt them from below; and few shallow sills that limit contact with this warmer water.
If sunlight must penetrate the dust covering a comet's water ice in order to warm it and produce jets, Sunshine says the Deep Impact findings suggest the ices on such dormant comets may not have run out but merely become sealed — by layers of debris, for example.
They identified wind patterns that mixed the warmer surface and colder deep waters to cool the ocean's surface and reduce the intensity of the storm.
A shift in the wind direction during the 1940s caused renewed upwelling of warm deep water on to the shelf.
«The undersides of glaciers in deeper valleys are exposed to warm, salty Atlantic water, while the others are perched on sills, protected from direct exposure to warmer ocean water,» said Romain Millan, lead author of the study, available online in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Dr Hillenbrand continues: «Our reconstruction shows that warm deep water flooded Pine Island Bay at the end of the last ice age.
Researchers can measure annual changes in how the melt rate occurs, for example, or the effects of a single pulse of warm deep - ocean water.
Muscles must stay warm to remain efficient, but that's a challenge for these beasts because they often swim in near - freezing waters, either in cold regions of the world or deep below the sun - warmed surface.
This water is warming an average of 0.03 degrees Celsius per year, with temperatures at the deepest ocean sensors sometimes exceeding 0.3 degrees Celsius or 33 degrees Fahrenheit, Muenchow said.
Driven by stronger winds resulting from climate change, ocean waters in the Southern Ocean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of the ice.
Scientists thought strong upwelling of colder deep waters spared the region from the warming seen in other parts of the Pacific, she said.
However, in their wake, hurricanes set up large - amplitude waves that mingle warm surface water with colder deep water, says climate scientist Matthew Huber of Purdue University.
Chan says that lighter warm water creates a cap over the colder depths, making it less likely that deeper waters — where everything from «plankton to whale poop» sucks up oxygen — will rise to mix with the oxygenated surface.
In a recent paper published in Nature Geoscience, his team identified two deep underwater cavities beneath the glacier that they note could be pathways for relatively warm ocean water to reach the underside of the glacier, enhancing its melting.
MELT OFF Off the coast of the western Antarctic Peninsula (shown), upwelling of relatively warm, deep water has been linked to the melting of ice shelves, which help buttress the region's glaciers.
«The ocean bed is quite complex, and there are some regions that provide access for warm, deep ocean water to those glaciers,» Scheuchl says.
The cold water of the deep, however, expands less for the same input of heat and has a greater capacity to store warm water.
Deep lakes warm very slowly in the spring, and small changes in water temperature at the end of winter can lead to large changes in the timing of summer stratification for these lakes.
The only hope for life as we know it, and it's an exceedingly slim one, is that water mixed with ammonia may get warm enough deep below the surface to liquefy.
Scientists say Charon could have been warm enough to cause the water ice to melt deep down, creating a subsurface ocean.
El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Even as the surface warms, the deeps remain cool, and this cold water will continue to periodically push the ocean out of the El Niño state.
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion A technology using the temperature difference between cold, deep ocean waters and warmer surface waters to generate electricity.
The models reveal a «hydrothermal siphon» driven by heat loss from deep in the Earth and the flow of cold seawater down into the crust and of warmed water up out of the crust.
However, when temperatures warm over the Antarctic regions, deep waters rise from the floor of the ocean much closer to the continent.
Upwelling can have big impacts around Antarctica, where the deep waters tend to be the warmest (about 5 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit above freezing).
A new study led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics has found that wind over the ocean off the coast of East Antarctica causes warm, deep waters to upwell, circulate under Totten Ice Shelf, and melt the fringes of the East Antarctic ice sheet from below.
As the planet warms and more ships enter Arctic and Antarctic waters, the Coast Guard hopes to finally break the deep freeze on new icebreakers and lead the way.
So when wind pulls warm water up from down deep, the temperature difference experienced at the interface of the water and ice can effectively submerse the glacier in a hot bath, with some areas experiencing more than a 10-fold increase in melt rate.
One result is a flow of cold deep water toward the equator and warm surface water toward the poles, and this «overturning circulation» plays a crucial role in moving heat around the globe.
It doesn't make sense for deep - sea octopuses to brood eggs in warm water like this: it's suicide.
«Warm water was there, but deep under the cold, icy surface.
High areas of OHC indicate warm, deep water.
«Cold, deep water from this little area of the Nordic seas, less than 1 % of the global ocean, travels the entire planet and returns as warm surface water.
That deep water is not only rich in nutrients, it also has relatively high concentrations of carbon dioxide, both because it is cold (cold water can absorb and hold more carbon dioxide than warm water) and because the decomposition of organic matter that sinks into the depths releases carbon dioxide.
So the air was getting colder, but the deep ocean water was getting warmer, during the coldest periods of the Ice Age.
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