Basically, although the gas is indeed easily absorbed by sea - water, it is the timescales that matter: mixing of shallow and deep
oceanic waters takes place over hundreds to thousands of years but sea - water can de-gas parts of its carbon dioxide payload over much, much shorter periods.
Basically, although the gas is indeed easily absorbed by sea - water, it is the timescales that matter: mixing of shallow and deep
oceanic waters takes place over hundreds to thousands of years but sea - water can de-gas parts of its carbon dioxide payload over much, much shorter periods.
Not exact matches
The tagged animals traveled to and
took measurements from a fourth known source of bottom
water, a crucial
oceanic heat sink
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.
Like most
oceanic islands, the Galápagos have a history of increasing fishing pressure dating back to European whalers, and culminating in recent news of the Ecuadorian government seizing a Chinese fishing vessel with more than 6,000 sharks
taken from protected
waters around the islands.