Sentences with phrase «of colder deep waters»

Scientists thought strong upwelling of colder deep waters spared the region from the warming seen in other parts of the Pacific, she says.

Scientists thought strong upwelling of colder deep waters spared the region from the warming seen in other parts of the Pacific, she said.

One result is a flow of cold deep water toward the equator and warm surface water toward the poles, and this «overturning circulation» plays a crucial role in moving heat around the globe.

My guess is it increases OHC by decreasing the formation of cold deep water, this would have a temporary (hundreds of year though) heating effect at the surface.

On my rough calcs, this upwelling of cold deep water spreading out under the tradewinds will be enough to affect surface temps at the times of climate regime reversals, and sure enough there is a giveaway dip near the peak of the AMO, and the troughs are spikier than the crests of the AMO curve.

When the wind - driven ocean circulation is intense, such as during the negative phase of the IPO & La Nina, there is strong upwelling of cold deep water along the equator, and along the eastern coasts of the continents.

Upwelling of cold deep water continues to feed the cool pool, which grows, frequently reaching the West coast of S. America.

(That warming is mostly due to a slowdown in exchange of cold deep water with surface water.)

Have a look at ENSO: One mode is less upwelling of cold deep water, change in SST, trade winds and air pressure, but also cloud cover, another mode is the opposite.

Not exact matches

Its cold, deep waters are inhabited by chinook and coho salmon, pods of majestic orca whales and Kinder Morgan's Westridge Marine Terminal.

We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise.

So this Sunday, in the midst of our growing joy at the advent of God into our world, let us pause to listen to this harsh prophet standing knee - deep in cold Jordan water.

After having my first child and becoming so aware of what I was spraying in our house to clean surfaces including his highchair, I discovered that I could clean with just fibres and cold water to get a deep pore clean.

Turn heat to medium and let boil until a candy or deep fat thermometer reads 248 degrees F (or when a half teaspoon placed in a glass of icy cold water turns into a firm, chewy ball), about 17 minutes.

Our fish meal is from deep ocean water small fish, and our crab meal comes from the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest or Nova Scotia.

It is a deep - sea green freshwater plant that grows in the cold, fresh waters that contains incredible amounts of vitamins and minerals like many other freshwater plants.

The hard work and long hours (often spent in waist - deep cold water) are paying off: The calf, named Tyonek (tye - OH - nehk) by ASLC staff, is passing critical milestones similar to those we mark to monitor the well - being of belugas born at Shedd

Digging a bit deeper, the report pours cold water on a number of theories for Labour's defeat.

A capable 13 - term senator, said to be one of the best legal minds in the State Senate, DeFrancisco, like Molinaro, found the waters beyond his safe district deep and cold.

Scientists aren't sure why the blob formed, though many blame a ridge of high pressure that brought sunnier weather and less mixing of surface water with colder, deeper water.

They identified wind patterns that mixed the warmer surface and colder deep waters to cool the ocean's surface and reduce the intensity of the storm.

Muscles must stay warm to remain efficient, but that's a challenge for these beasts because they often swim in near - freezing waters, either in cold regions of the world or deep below the sun - warmed surface.

Remains in the stomach of a sperm whale caught in 1925 were the first evidence of colossal squid, which are believed to inhabit the deep, freezing - cold waters around Antarctica.

However, in their wake, hurricanes set up large - amplitude waves that mingle warm surface water with colder deep water, says climate scientist Matthew Huber of Purdue University.

The fog is a gift of the Pacific Ocean's California Current where winds create upwellings that bring cold, deep, nutrient - rich waters to the surface.

The cold water of the deep, however, expands less for the same input of heat and has a greater capacity to store warm water.

It turns out that the steady dripping of water deep underground can reveal a surprising amount of information about the constantly changing cycles of heat and cold, precipitation and drought in the turbulent atmosphere above.

This ecosystem, which alone provides 5 to 10 % of the world's catches, owes its exceptional productivity to the nutrients provided by upwellings of deep, cold, nutrient - rich water along the coasts.

Dr Andrew Meijers, an oceanographer at BAS says: «The waters around Antarctica are isolated, deep and very cold but they are not beyond the reach of climate change.

Today, cold water sinks near the Arctic and flows deep below the surface of the Atlantic toward the southern oceans, where it rises up.

According to the researchers, the presence of Osedax at these latitudes could be related to the contact with the deeper and colder waters in Blanes» underwater canyon, an area where they think more abundant and stable populations of the new Osedax species could live.

Beatty believes that when 570 degree Fahrenheit water from thermal vents hits cold, deep ocean currents, several light - producing processes may occur: sonoluminescence from imploding gas bubbles; chemiluminescence from chemical reactions (analogous to fireflies lighting up); crystalloluminescence from the formation of crystal bonds; and triboluminescence from the breaking of those bonds.

Above the 670, the mantle churned slowly like a very shallow pot of boiling water, delivering heat and rock at mid-ocean ridges to make new crust and cool the interior and accepting cold sinking slabs of old plate at deep - sea trenches.

A fleet of robotic submarines, based at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), head - quartered in in Southampton, have been used to map vulnerable cold - water coral reefs in the deep ocean off southwest England.

Most of the sharks were found in water depths shallower than 330 feet, although they seem to use deeper and colder waters as their size increases.

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Even as the surface warms, the deeps remain cool, and this cold water will continue to periodically push the ocean out of the El Niño state.

The researchers found that during glacial periods when the atmosphere was colder and sea ice was far more extensive, deep ocean waters came to the surface much further north of the Antarctic continent than they do today.

Species: Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) Habitat: deep in the North Atlantic and the cold surface waters of the Arctic

The models reveal a «hydrothermal siphon» driven by heat loss from deep in the Earth and the flow of cold seawater down into the crust and of warmed water up out of the crust.

One morning last August, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's deep - sea robot, named Doc Ricketts, was snooping around the ocean floor in 1,812 meters of very cold water off the coast of northern California.

«Cold, deep water from this little area of the Nordic seas, less than 1 % of the global ocean, travels the entire planet and returns as warm surface water.

That deep water is not only rich in nutrients, it also has relatively high concentrations of carbon dioxide, both because it is cold (cold water can absorb and hold more carbon dioxide than warm water) and because the decomposition of organic matter that sinks into the depths releases carbon dioxide.

So the air was getting colder, but the deep ocean water was getting warmer, during the coldest periods of the Ice Age.

The ice shelf floats within a pool of its own cold meltwater that sits atop a deeper, saltier and warmer layer; the two layers generally don't mix, like oil and water.

Known as the Antarctic Bottom Waters (AABW), these deep, cold waters play a critical role in regulating circulation, temperature, and availability of oxygen and nutrients throughout the world's oceans.

Somewhere deep below, a cone of bluish light raced upward through the cold water.

OTEC is a relatively marginal alternative energy source that uses cold deep water and warm surface water to run the equivalent of a reverse fridge cycle.

Both of the recorded winters were unusually cold and created similarly large amounts of deep water, but the strength of the AMOC whipsawed wildly between 8 and 25 sverdrups, a unit of flow roughly equivalent to the total flow of all the world's rivers.

The resulting EMUs include the deep, very cold, low - oxygen waters that encompass roughly one - quarter of the world's oceans.