A chance encounter is a constant fear anytime
we enter oceanic waters.
Not exact matches
With the
oceanic plate,
water enters the earth as it is trapped in minerals of the
oceanic crust or overlaying sediments.
The persistent upwelling of cold
water in the eastern tropical Pacific would have reduced cloud cover there, via reduced
oceanic evaporation, and thus allowed more of the sun's energy to
enter the tropical ocean - this would have aided the ocean warming process, as generally the case when the tropical ocean is cooler - than - normal.
Water now returning to the surface having
entered deep ocean during the MWP may be inducing release of
oceanic CO2 in response to altered pH, and this release could be expected to provide the steady increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration (of at least 1.5 ppm / year) that is observed to be independent of temperature variations.