Sentences with phrase «different water masses»

Digging through metres of ocean mud from depths of 3,800 metres, the team studied the dissolution of fossil plankton shells that was closely linked to the chemical signature of different water masses.

There are many different radionuclides that scientists use as «clocks» to measure how fast the ocean mixes different water masses and sediment accumulates on the seafloor.

-LCB- I use the same concept in my Oceanography class to show what happens with different water masses. -RCB-

The Southern California Bight acts as a transition between many different water masses, including the Pacific subarctic, Pacific equatorial, and the North Pacific central water masses.

Physical properties of the water and satellite estimates of primary productivity were used separately to describe 25 different water masses in Australia's oceans, identified by different circulation regimes and oceanographic features.

Determining changes in the average temperature of the entire world's ocean has proven to be a nearly impossible task due to the distribution of different water masses.

There are many different radionuclides that scientists use as «clocks» to measure how fast the ocean mixes different water masses and sediment accumulates on the seafloor.

As Dr. Mackey cited in the published article Sea Change: UCI oceanographer studies effects of global climate fluctuations on aquatic ecosystems: «They would tell us about upwelling and how the ocean wasn't just this one big, homogenous bathtub, that there were different water masses, and they had different chemical properties that influenced what grew there,» she recalls.