Sentences with phrase «oceanic water column»

This rise may have been eustatically controlled, possibly through a combination of thermal expansion of the oceanic water column and melting of unknown sources of high - altitude or polar ice caps in response to global warming.»

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Funded by the National Science Foundation, Ridge 2000 is «an interdisciplinary initiative to study the Earth's oceanic spreading ridge system as an integrated whole, from its inception in the mantle to its manifestations in the biosphere and water column.»

The Indian Ocean Garbage Patch on a continuous ocean map centered near the south pole The Indian Ocean garbage patch, discovered in 2010, is a gyre of marine litter suspended in the upper water column of the central Indian Ocean, specifically the Indian Ocean Gyre, one of the five major oceanic gyres.

Water columns are much more strongly stratified in the tropics than in higher latitudes, so it takes a lot less energy to move parcels from deep oceanic layers to the surface in high latitudes — and, not surprisingly, this is where most communication occurs between deep and surface waters.

Doug Cotton, doesn't it strike you as odd that the simple physical model that Geoff Wood presents, and that your and fellow members of Principia Scientific International (PSI) defend so vociferously, applies with equal force to (1) the water molecules in the 10,000 - meter gravitational column of the oceanic Challenger Deep, and (1) the air molecules in the 100,000 - meter gravitational column of the atmosphere over the Challenger Deep.

During the six years of in - situ measurements, an oceanic warming of 0.77 ± 0.11 Wm − 2 occurred in the upper 2000m depth of the water column.