Sentences with phrase «ocean interior»

This paper in Journal of Marine Research has nearly 500 citations and describes vertical eddies in ocean interior using diffusivity as a metric.

Synthesis products developed to date: SOCAT, CARINA, PACIFICA and GLODAPv2 have dramatically increased our understanding of several critical phenomena including air - sea fluxes of carbon, ocean interior carbon storage, ocean acidification, net community and export production, and interior ocean circulation which allowed us to take the relevant actions listed above.

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When these tiny marine algae die or are consumed by predators, their biomass sinks to the ocean interior where it becomes food for other types of bacteria.

Oceanographers call this the ballast effect — the transport of carbon into the ocean interior via sinking dead cells or fecal pellets where it is stored for a very long time,» explains Prof. Dr. Thorsten Reusch, head of Evolutionary Ecology at GEOMAR.

Thanks to the natural circulation pattern, that oxygen would then be carried deeper into the ocean interior, where it might still be detectable years later as it travels along its flow path.

Transport by these deep - reaching eddies provides a mechanism for spreading the hydrothermal chemical and heat flux into the deep - ocean interior and for dispersing propagules hundreds of kilometers between isolated and ephemeral communities.

«And, what puzzles researchers working on the biological carbon pump: it is higher than that of non-calcifying phytoplankton and marine snow, the main sinking particles and organic carbon sources to the ocean interior».

«How phytoplankton communities absorb CO2 and export it into the ocean interior, and therefore how atmospheric CO2 will evolve over the coming millennia, will depend on these sensitivities, Buchanan added.

Jellies are especially important because they rapidly consume plankton and particles and quickly export biomass and carbon to the ocean interior.

There are at least five types of upwelling: coastal upwelling, large - scale wind - driven upwelling in the ocean interior, upwelling associated with eddies, topographically - associated upwelling, and broad - diffusive upwelling in the ocean interior.

Where the poleward & equatorward currents of this intensified circulation converge — the centre of the gyres — surface water is pumped downwards into the ocean interior in a process known as Ekman pumping.

Kelvin waves can travel eastward along the equator and poleward on the coasts along the eastern boundary of the ocean basins, but not in the ocean interior.

For example, with some species of coccolithophores increasing in abundance at the expense of others, the ocean ecosystem might shift towards species that carry more carbon away from the surface and into the ocean interior, causing greater uptake of carbon into the oceans (See Langer et al., 2007).

Internal tides are generated as the surface tides move stratified water up and down sloping topography, which produces a wave in the ocean interior.

Most of the deep ocean warming is occurring in the subtropical ocean gyres - vast rotating masses of water in each ocean basin where near - surface currents converge and are forced downward into the ocean interior.

Consider the extensive loss of dissolved oxygen in the ocean interior that follows from warming (e.g. Rabalais et al. 2008 and Moffitt et al. 2015, here is a factsheet).

The IPO is, essentially, an oscillation in the strength of winds (primarily the tropical Trade Winds) which promote the mixing of heat down into the ocean interior and thus affect sea surface temperatures.

Bio-optical sensors would supplement satellite observations of the ocean's color by providing measurements of chlorophyll, light, and light scattering deep into the ocean interior throughout the year, in cloud - and ice - covered areas, or during the dark of polar winter.

By contrast, in codes which represent the ocean in terms of constant - density layers (which represent the flow in the ocean interior much more faithfully)- representation of the ocean mixed layer becomes a challenge.

Additionally, because mixing in the ocean interior is largely along lines of constant potential density rather than along lines of constant depth, mixing must be rotated relative to the coordinate grid - a process that can be computationally expensive.

While the projected changes are largest at the ocean surface, the penetration of anthropogenic CO2 into the ocean interior will alter the chemical composition over the 21st century down to several thousand metres, albeit with substantial regional differences (Figure 10.23).

By far the largest uncertainty in the future evolution of these ocean interior changes is thus associated with the future pathway of atmospheric CO2.

Rob Painting > Ray — for a long time it was thought he thermohaline circulation was the only way the ocean interior was able to be ventilated, but the oceanographic community has realized that wind - driven mixing plays a very large part in this process.

Ray — for a long time it was thought he thermohaline circulation was the only way the ocean interior was able to be ventilated, but the oceanographic community has realized that wind - driven mixing plays a very large part in this process.

The result of that research was basically that directly injecting CO2 into the ocean interior was not a particularly good idea, and now that option is largely off the table.

Recent advances in our understanding of internal - wave driven turbulent mixing in the ocean interior are summarized.

In the ocean interior, it is mainly sustained by breaking internal waves.

Simulations suggest that seafloor topography enhances turbulent mixing and energy dissipation in the ocean interior.