Sentences with phrase «great ocean conveyor»
... system known as the «thermohaline circulation» or «great ocean conveyor belt.»
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It is apparently driven by the acceleration and slowing of the great ocean conveyor that carries warm surface water into the northern North Atlantic (Science, 1 July 2005, p. 41).
Both are part of the so - called Great Ocean Conveyor Belt of ocean circulation.
Wallace Broecker is a climate scientist at Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory who has helped shape our understanding of how the ocean moves heat around the globe, and how this so - called «great ocean conveyor» can switch the climate to a radically different state.
He spoke with journalist Kim Martineau about his latest book, «The Great Ocean Conveyor: Discovering the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change.»
Losing the perennial Arctic sea ice is speeding up the melting and partial disintegration of the great Greenland Ice Sheet, and is also having an effect in Antarctica, partly through disruption of the «great ocean conveyor» which sends Arctic - cooled water all the way to the Antarctic.
These range from few years (Beaufort gyre 4 years, Circumpolar current 8 years, Indian ocean gyre 10 years, N. Atlantic subpolar gyre 20 years etc.) up to above 100 years for some of the Pacific gyres, and finally the great ocean conveyor belt estimated at ~ 1600 years.
Our results suggest that the majority of the world's deep water is not transported back to the surface along the current systems of the standard great ocean conveyor (GOC).
The fresh meltwater is lighter than the salty ocean water and therefore sits on top, preventing the physical pump mechanism driving the northernmost sling of the great ocean conveyor.
A system of ocean currents, popularly referred to as the «Great Ocean Conveyor,» brings warm waters to the North Atlantic.