Sentences with phrase «of pycnocline»
This shows upward fluxes through the top of the pycnocline of about 1 watt in the Beayfort Sea, and 2 - 3 watts over the Chukchi Shelf, an area influenced by the Pacific inflow.
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Predicting sea ice extent is easy if you can mentally calculate wind variations, momentum, sea currents, multi year ice compression ratios, tidal synergy with weather patterns, the AO, the temperature of ice sea water and air, how cloudy it will be, salinity, pycnocline convection rates, sea surface to air interface, CO2 exchange, ice thickness distributions.....
«The pycnocline (meaning rapid change of density) separates the surface layer of the ocean from the deep ocean.
[5] These variations of salinity and temperature with depth change the density of the seawater, creating the pycnocline.
Capotondi A. (January 2008): Can the mean structure of the tropical pycnocline affect ENSO period in coupled climate models?
Low frequency pycnocline depth variability at Station P in the northeast Pacific, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 32, 3207 - 3215.