Sentences with phrase «moved by ocean currents»

Surface heat will radiate downwards and also be moved by ocean currents.

Not exact matches

Led by Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist and marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the team found that a small fraction of contaminated seafloor sediments off Fukushima are moved offshore by typhoons that resuspend radioactive particles in the water, which then travel laterally with southeasterly currents into the Pacific Ocean.

«These results will have wider reaching implications, such as how we map the circulation of the world's oceans in the past, which are affected by how quickly the sea floor is moving up and down and blocking the path of water currents,» said Hoggard.

The litter that's swirling around on the surface of the oceans is moved by the currents, which helps to consolidate it into floating trash heaps.

Balance time for those surface layers is short, but for the deep ocean, CO2 doesn't diffuse but is gradually carried there by slow moving ocean currents, these may take on the order of a thousand years to complete.

From which this came: «Once these glacial rivers pour out into the larger body of water, they're picked up by ocean currents, moving east to west, and begin to circulate there.

We have had lengthy heating phase caused by a spurt of insolation, now we have had a big El Nino, a subsequent shift to La Nina and the resulting warm currents moving up the the Western Pacific, causing warming polar oceans and changes in atmospheric water vapor content.

Surface ocean currents are formed by winds that cause the water to move in the direction that the.

The sea ice is affected by wind and ocean currents, which can move and rotate very large areas of ice.

Sea ice may be discontinuous pieces (ice floes) moved on the ocean surface by wind and currents (pack ice), or a motionless sheet attached to the coast (land - fast ice).

Your ocean current outcroppings «tagged» by isotopes; have you ever seen a plume of smoke rising; can you predict where it will move from moment to moment??

If for some reason the Pacific ocean currents did NOT move heat around in the way we identify as ENSO events then the cloud changes instanced by Spencer would not happen.

Once energy is in the upper ocean it can move around by convection or be moved by Ekman pumping and subsurface currents, BUT The key point is the existence of the ocean surface skin layer and its unusual properties.

By understanding the relationship between the size, composition and distribution of particles found on the bottom with the motion of the water column above, scientists who study long cores of ocean sediment can tell how currents have changed or moved over time.

Relatively warm salty water is pushed upwards by ocean currents moving over a ridge in the Weddell sea.