Sentences with word «halocline»

This is in sharp contrast to the Arctic Ocean, where very stable layer of halocline prevents mixing between the surface layer and the deeper layer of the ocean»... «In view of the absence of significant surface warming, it is not surprising that the area coverage of sea ice hardly changes in the Circumpolar Ocean despite the CO2 - doubling.»

Fer, I., 2009, Weak vertical diffusion allows maintenance of cold halocline in the central Arctic, Atmos.

Between this lower salinity layer and the bulk of the ocean lies the so - called halocline, in which both salinity and temperature are rising with increasing depth.

The currents lurked at a depth of about 150 meters, but they didn't mix much with surface layers, because of a barrier called the cold halocline layer (CHL)-- a boundary between salty deep waters and fresher water on top.

Scuba divers can visually witness the change from freshwater to saltwater as they cross the amazing halocline layer which creates an astounding visual refraction that needs to be seen firsthand to be believed.

As you descend through this layer of fresh / brackish water you will pass through the mixing zone or halocline into the salt water which instantly becomes crystal clear.

Makes me wonder if there are not even longer scale, lower frequency resonances like RWP / MWP and their counterparts DA / LIA driven by slower ocean / ice / halocline cycles.

Steele, M., J. Morison, W. Ermold, I. Rigor, M. Ortmeyer and K. Shimada, «Circulation of summer Pacific halocline water in the Arctic Ocean ``, J. Geophys.

Woodgate, R.A., K. Aagaard, J.H. Swift, K.K. Falkner and W.M. Smethie,» Pacific Ventilation of the Arctic Ocean's lower halocline by upwelling and diapycnal mixing over the continental margin `, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L18609, doi: 10.1029 / 2005GL023999, 2005.

It is found that North Atlantic Deep Water formation is favored by a warm climate, while cold climates are more likely to produce Southern Ocean deep water or deep - decoupling oscillations (when the Southern sinking region is halocline covered).

With dynamic cooling, convection decreases markedly in regions that have strong haloclines (i.e., the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific), while overturning increases in the North Atlantic, where the positive salinity buoyancy is smallest among the polar regions.

Because different water densities meet at the halocline and both organic and inorganic particulates accumulate there, it's an intriguing place, chemically speaking.

Iliffe believes the answer is in the halocline.

The halocline divides the freshwater and saltwater throughout the cave system of limestone passageways — so narrow in parts that a diver must detach from his oxygen tanks to fit through — and caverns sometimes large enough to drive a semi-truck through them.

But while Iliffe has a lot of theories, evidence to support them has been slower in coming, hindered by the logistical challenges of studying the halocline and the fact that only a small cadre of people, mostly around Iliffe, share his quest for understanding this obscure natural phenomenon.

The layer where the two meet is the halocline, which may host a unique ecosystem.

That puts Iliffe and his students in a unique position to study the halocline's biological significance.

Marine biologist Tom Iliffe is on a quest to understand the halocline, a layer of water that may hold the secrets to Earth's earliest life.

Sometimes clouds of accumulating bacteria can even be seen just above the halocline.

What's more, gelatinous orange, green and brown bacterial mats often rim the halocline on the cave walls.

These layers meet and mix in a lens of brackish water called the halocline.

Whereas saltwater and freshwater are clear, the halocline appears somewhat like a hazily defined liquid body rippling within the water.

If left undisturbed, the halocline can be paper thin, yet still visible to the naked eye.

For now, all we know for sure about the halocline is what has been observed by the naked eye: Bacteria tend to grow there, and crustaceans appear to be eating them.

The halocline itself is responsible for the formation of these cave systems.

The researchers suspect that the growth of these hollow structures is tied to the specific physical and biochemical conditions near the halocline, the layer that separates the freshwater from the underlying saltwater.

The halocline (a vertical zone in the water column in which salinity changes rapidly with depth) in the Arkona and Bornholm Basins is currently extremely strong and located at a depth of 30 - 60 metres.

The idea of the halocline sounds fascinating.

It creates a halocline: where fresh and salt waters meet and don't mix.

Being in the blurry water of a halocline is amusing, and quite rare.

Yes, the halocline is an interesting phenomenon.

Diving conditions can not be better: crystal clear freshwater, no current, supervisibility and stunning cavern enviroment, stalagmites, stalactites, light beams, haloclines, air domes.

Diving conditions are ideals: crystal clear freshwater, pleasant temperature, no current, supervisibility and wonderful rock formations, stalagmites, stalactites, light beams, haloclines, air domes.

What is more, you'll delight in the haloclines, a phenomenon created by the saltwater of the Caribbean mixing with the freshwater of the cenote, creating a beautifully gauzy, layered effect.

At these points, called the halocline, divers will enjoy a visual distortion effect.

The rise in BWT during stadials confirms earlier interpretations of subsurface inflow of warm Atlantic water below a halocline reaching > 1.2 km water depth.

At high latitudes, it is sometimes absent, replaced by a halocline, which is a layer of maximum vertical salinity gradient.