Sentences with phrase «dense saline water»

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Warm and saline water transported poleward cools at the surface when it reaches high latitudes and becomes denser and subsequently sinks into the deep 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.

As temperatures cool dramatically in the winter, ice forms and intense vertical convection allows the water to become dense enough to sink below the warm saline water below.

When the sun heats our tropical oceans, evaporation causes that heated water to become more saline and denser.

Surface water tends to be less saline and colder water of low salinity is less dense and so rises potentially reversing the «normal» situation.

Cold water sinks readily in polar regions, as the surface water tends to be closer to freezing, as well as being fresher from ice melt, and therefore less dense than the inflowing currents, which are in turn are rendered more saline by the fresh water freezing out.