Sentences with phrase «dense bottom water»

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The reason that oil rests on top of the water rather than underneath is because it has a different density to water, water is denser and so sinks to the bottom.

Choose dense items like milk, juice, meat, and water bottles to freeze first (make sure you put meat on the bottom of the freezer in case it thaws, so you don't risk contaminating your other foods).

If you put the salt water on top, it all mixes, this is because the more dense salt water tries to move down to the bottom.

As water rises and sand sinks, dense mud collects at the bottom.

Surface waters become warm enough (in spring) or cool enough (in autumn) to reach 4 ° Celsius, the temperature at which these waters become dense and sink toward the lake's bottom, mixing the waters.

Cool, dense water tends to stay near the bottom and warmer buoyant water near the top.

This would shut down a global ocean circulation system that is driven by dense, salty water falling to the bottom of the north Atlantic and that ultimately produces the Gulf Stream.

The warm waters give up their heat in the bitterly cold regions monitored by OSNAP, become denser, and sink, forming ocean - bottom currents that return southward, hugging the perimeter of the ocean basins.

In the model, the severity of hypoxia is driven by a combination of physical factors such as the thickness of the dense, bottom layer of water during stratification, the degree of wind - driven vertical mixing, and the growth of phytoplankton induced by phosphorus loading.

It's here in the frigid Nordic Seas that water masses become cold and dense, sinking in streams that snake along the basin bottom, eventually turning southward and reaching the subtropics in about a decade.

The bone - crushing pressures and eyebrow - singing temperatures maintain this water in a plasma state, creating a dense, deadly ocean at the bottom of its atmosphere.

The water is also denser, so it floats to the bottom of the bottle.

The coldest water is on the bottom because that's the densest water.

The cold, dense brine as it sinks from the bottom of the forming ice will mix and entrain additional cold water from just under the ice.

This loss of heat to the atmosphere makes the water cooler and denser, causing it to sink to the bottom of the ocean.

As the Atlantic Ocean's water gets fresher from the melting ice caps, the warm, saline, and more dense Gulf Stream sinks further south, taking the warmer water with to the bottom of the ocean.

The tar sands oil is denser than water and therefore sinks to the bottom of waterways, smothering any benthic (bottom - dwelling) creatures.

In shallow seas that dominated subtropical regions, warm salty water became dense enough to sink to the bottom.

with the consequence that bottom water never falls below 4C (most dense water sinks to the bottom) allowing e.g. fish to survive in winter because the lake freezes from the top only.

The dense salt - laden warmer water sinls to the bottom of the ucean where its movement is impeded by the hill's and valley's of the ocean floor.

A new thermocline develops where the densest water (4 °C) sinks to the bottom, and the less dense water (water that is approaching the freezing point) rises to the top.

But deep water production by convection may be less, depending on how much NADW is Arctic in origin and how much is simply recirculated Antarctic bottom water (extremely dense water, formed as brine under the sea ice around polynas offshore of Antarctica and sliding down the continental shelf into the depths without much mixing, creates a giant pool of dense water extending all the way up the bottom of the Atlantic to about 60 ° N).

Because of their large size, tabular icebergs often travel great distances, and their movement can affect ocean circulation, the formation of bottom water (the dense layer of water at the very bottom of the ocean) and sea ice, and the productivity of life - forms in their path.

These observed changes aren't direct observations of thermocline depth, but IMHO, if there's less cold dense water on the bottom, there's more warm water on top.

The temperature signal in deep ocean δ18O refers to the sea surface where cold dense water formed and sank to the ocean bottom, the principal location of deep water formation being the Southern Ocean.

This sea ice formation creates cold, dense, salty water that sinks to the seafloor and forms very dense Antarctic bottom water.

In vertical profiles of water from the Gulf of Maine (above), cool, dense water is on the bottom and warmer, less dense water floats on top.

Liquid CO2 is denser than water, so it will head for the bottom, and since it's a non-polar molecule it won't mix with the seawater.

In a few locations at high latitudes, surface water becomes dense enough to sink rapidly to the bottom of the ocean, allowing communication between the atmosphere and the abyss.

You can rest assured though that the top will usually be warmer than the bottom since colder water is denser.

They found that the dense, salty water from the Marmara Sea — which leads out to the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas at the other end of the Bosphorus — is flowing out of the strait and along the bottom of the Black Sea, carrying along sediment and nutrients that could be key in providing vital nutrients to remote parts of the ocean.

Being denser than warm water it then sank and flowed out along the bottom of the ocean in deep ocean currents, eventually filling the depths of the ocean basins around the world.

Antarctic Bottom Water, the most voluminous water mass in the oceans, is now being replaced by warmer, less dense water masses as the deep oceans Water, the most voluminous water mass in the oceans, is now being replaced by warmer, less dense water masses as the deep oceans water mass in the oceans, is now being replaced by warmer, less dense water masses as the deep oceans water masses as the deep oceans warm.

This layering results from a strong density gradient: water layers near the surface are less salty and therefore less dense, while bottom waters are the densest.

These OMITTED / POORLY Represented processes include the following: oceanic eddies, tides, fronts, buoyancy - driven coastal and boundary currents, cold halocline, dense water plumes and convection, double diffusion, surface / bottom mixed layer, sea ice — thickness distribution, concentration, deformation, drift and export, fast ice, snow cover, melt ponds and surface albedo, atmospheric loading, clouds and fronts, ice sheets / caps and mountain glaciers, permafrost, river runoff, and air — sea ice — land interactions and coupling.