Sentences with phrase «dense salty water»

An inhospitable cauldron of dense salty water and methane proves lethal for most, but the organisms that survive could resemble life on other planets.

Evaporative loss leaves the ocean saltier; the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf for example have strong evaporative loss; the resulting plume of dense salty water may be traced through the Straits of Gibraltar into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Summer ice, as it forms, rejects salt, leading to the creation of dense, salty waters just below the ice.

Icebergs are made of fresh water, which is less dense than salty seawater.

The saltier water is denser and so does not mix with the less salty water above it.

In this pattern, warm waters flow northward from the tropics, then cool and become saltier and denser as they reach higher latitudes.

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.

Then they filled the platform with water of varying salinity to replicate the different densities found at the strait, with denser, saltier water below and lighter, less briny water above.

As the warm water reaches high North Atlantic latitudes, it gives up heat and moisture to the atmosphere, leaving cold, salty, dense water that sinks to the ocean floor.

This global circulation is propelled by the sinking of cold, salty — and therefore dense — ocean waters.

As a result, while a layer of ice - cold fresh water sits just beneath the sea ice, about 20 meters (65 feet) down there is a layer of denser, saltier water that has been gradually warmed by the sun's rays.

This warmed salty dense water is some of the water that sinks to replace the cold water that came up near South America.

The main issue is that sea ice is fresher than sea water (has less salt), and since salty water is more dense (1028 kg / m3) than fresher water (1004 kg / m3 for 5 psu), the volume of sea water displaced by the ice is slightly less than the volume of the ice if it melted.

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By the time it reaches the far North Atlantic, the dense, salty water has cooled and sinks.

When this salty surface ocean water is cooled sufficiently, it becomes too dense to float above the waters it overlies, so it sinks «like a rock».

Water with a higher salinity is more dense than less salty wWater with a higher salinity is more dense than less salty waterwater.

The warm intruding Atlantic water is saltier and denser and flows between 100 and 900 meters below the surface.

Salty water is also more dense than pure water.

If enough fresh water from melting glaciers flows into the North Atlantic, this would make the seawater less salty and less dense, so that it couldn't sink anymore.

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

But your link shows that warm saltier water can be denser than colder fresher water, I should have remembered that as it is one of the factors that drives the thermo - haline circulation.

It is fed by the freshwater input of the big Siberian and Canadian streams (Ob, Yenisei, Lena, Mackenzie), the water of which quasi floats on the saltier, denser, deeper ocean water.

A greater - than - normal volume of warm salty tropical water was transported north with the current and this was drawn down into the ocean in the region around 60 ° N - where dense water sinking occurs.

But up to now, it has been a mystery why much of the resulting fresh water ends up in the depths instead of floating above saltier, denser ocean waters.

Intruding dense salty warm water also generates a reservoir of Arctic heat stored between 100 and 900 meters depth.

In this case, the study suggests that the massive amounts of fresh water melting into the ocean from Greenland can prevent the sinking of the dense, cold, salty water and alter the AMOC circulation.

But he said that other impacts of climate change could upset the cycle, which is caused by variation in the salinity of the water as denser, saltier water sinks.

So, the saltier and more dense Atlantic water sinks below the surface and a colder fresher layer of water above it acts as a insolation blanket that limits the amount of ocean heat in contact with the ice above.

Because surface water that evaporates leaves nearly all of its salt behind, the surface becomes saltier — and if it becomes more dense than the underlying water, it sinks, sometimes in great blobs that do not mix very well with underlying waters, just like Dan's cream.

A shallower return current aided by winds then brings warmer and less salty — and thus less dense — water to the Atlantic.

The cycle starts when saltier, denser water at the surface northern part of the Atlantic, near Iceland, causes the water to sink.

This would make the surface ocean less salty, which (along with the warming) makes the surface waters less dense, and less likely to sink, meaning that the AMOC would weaken or maybe collapse completely.

Saltier water is denser, sinks faster, and takes surface heat with it.

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

Because saltier water is denser and thus more likely to sink, the transport of salt poleward into the North Atlantic provides a potentially destabilizing advective feedback to the AMOC (Stommel, 1961); i.e., a reduction in the strength of the AMOC would lead to less salt being transported into the North Atlantic, and hence a further reduction in the AMOC would ensue.

An input of freshwater makes the ocean less salty and less dense, reducing the amount of deep water produced and slowing down the ocean circulation.

How do the water column profile and dense salty shelf water (HSSW) characteristics evolve on time scales ranging from sub-synoptic to the annual cycle?

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.

As the warm water reaches high North Atlantic latitudes, it gives up heat and moisture to the atmosphere, leaving cold, salty, dense water that sinks to the ocean floor.

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.