Sentences with phrase «less saline water»

When the ice forms salt is excluded and the higher salinity water right below the forming ice sinks like a rock but gradually mixes along the way down with warmer less saline water.

I think it is sinking because it encounters lighter, fresher, less saline water.

Not exact matches

Here, the long time series shows that the surface water layers became up to 1.5 per mill less saline during the measurement period.

When a saline solution sits on one side of a semipermeable membrane and a less salty solution is on the other, he explains, water diffuses through the membrane from the less concentrated to the more concentrated side.

«They are therefore expected to respond positively to the warmer, less saline and smelly water of estuaries, but only once they've reached a certain stage of development.

The water tasted almost bloody, but less saline.

Fine sand, coconut trees, turquoise water... Salines beach is one of the most beautiful beaches in the Lesser Antilles.

This is also true to a lesser extent with solar thermal, because during long cloudy periods storing the heat in saline water tanks may not be cost effective.

Surface water tends to be less saline and colder water of low salinity is less dense and so rises potentially reversing the «normal» situation.

Cold water sinks readily in polar regions, as the surface water tends to be closer to freezing, as well as being fresher from ice melt, and therefore less dense than the inflowing currents, which are in turn are rendered more saline by the fresh water freezing out.

I'm not sure whether this is off topic, but I have read in other threads that there is less cold water plunging to the ocean floor around Antarctica (and presumably the Arctic too) due to the sea water becoming less saline due to increased precipitation and melting polar ice.

This is what one expects when the AMOC is weak, with less transport of more saline waters from the subtropics and more export of fresh waters from the Arctic.