Sentences with phrase «of salty water into»

A later pass showed that the south pole was much warmer than expected, and was spouting geysers of salty water into space.

This will mean the influx of saltier water into the western basin will cease.

Not exact matches

Even as the agreement was being hashed out, however, attention was already turning to a burst pipeline at Nexen's Long Lake oil sands site that spilled 31,000 barrels of bitumen, sand and salty water into the surrounding muskeg.

The newly enclosed sea succumbed to evaporation, its water level falling by thousands of meters, turning it into a desertlike environment pockmarked with shallow pools as salty as today's Dead Sea.

Part of this phosphorus has been replaced by saltier water and moved into the higher water layers.

The results were encouraging: The new «sea water» formed a layer on top of the even saltier Dead Sea water, and flowed back up into the simulated aquifer, effectively plugging it.

The heavier salty water flowing into the main basin has partially replaced the old eutrophic and anoxic water, which has in turn moved towards the mouth of the Gulf of Finland.

The impact of the salty, oxygen - rich water that flowed into the Baltic Sea main basin (Baltic Proper) in December 2014 via the Danish straits was still visible in August up to the deep basins east of Gotland.

Experiments and simulations by Marc Prat at the University of Toulouse in France and colleagues show how salty water evaporating from the pores in these materials leaves behind patches of salt crystals that grow into towers rather than a uniform film.

Beneath it lies another layer of rock full of ancient, salty water, and the change in water flow is allowing that to seep into the fresh water above.

In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied jets of water ice and vapor erupting into space from fissures on Enceladus, evidence of a salty ocean beneath the saturnian moon's placid icy surface.

Velicogna and her colleagues also measured a dramatic loss of Greenland ice, as much as 38 cubic miles per year between 2002 and 2005 — even more troubling, given that an influx of fresh melt water into the salty North Atlantic could in theory shut off the system of ocean currents that keep Europe relatively warm.

New research shows that infected crabs can rid themselves of parasites by moving into the less salty water of estuaries.

As a result, more melt water is mixing with the salty seawater and pulses of warmer Atlantic seawater have intruded into the Arctic Ocean.

«Curry found that between 1965 and 1995, about 4,800 cubic miles of fresh water — more water than is in Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and Lake Huron combined — melted from the Arctic region and poured into the normally salty northern Atlantic.»

The best - known example of this process, known as salt fingering, occurs where very salty water from the Mediterranean outflow mixes into the North Atlantic.

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At the mines, salty water is diverted into pools and then dried up by the sun — what's left is a thin layer of salt.

The opposite East Greenland Current brings cold, less salty water and lots of ice from the Arctic back into the Atlantic Ocean.

We might have a saviour in the form of the growing antarctic ice sheets in the southern winter as this causes much more planckton to form on the undersurface of the forming ice sheet driving super saturated salty waters deep into the circum polar antarctic bottom waters which is the main driver of the Great Oceanic Conveyor and later on it's travels the AMOC.

According to fluid modelling, at one point the accumulation of OCAPE was released abruptly (~ 1 month) into kinetic energy of thermobaric cabbeling convection (TCC), resulting in the warmer salty waters getting to the surface and subsequently warming of ca. 2 °C sea surface warming.

A greater - than - normal volume of warm salty tropical water was transported north with the current and this was drawn down into the ocean in the region around 60 ° N - where dense water sinking occurs.

Evaporative loss leaves the ocean saltier; the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf for example have strong evaporative loss; the resulting plume of dense salty water may be traced through the Straits of Gibraltar into the Atlantic Ocean.

Many factors — like the thermohaline circulation, which reverses direction at the poles as warm salty water releases heat into the air and sinks down to the bottom — are heavily influenced by the ocean's salinity, and thus, the movement of freshwater into and around the Arctic plays an important role in shaping both regional and global climate.

In this case, the study suggests that the massive amounts of fresh water melting into the ocean from Greenland can prevent the sinking of the dense, cold, salty water and alter the AMOC circulation.

As the last major ice age began to recede around 17,000 years ago, polar ice caps in the north and south started to melt, releasing vast quantities of fresh water into the salty oceans, altering natural currents, affecting the environment.

The salty bottom water flows west and out the bottom of the Strait of Gibraltar into the Atlantic Ocean.

It, too, has a salty waterfall, which pours the hypersaline bottom waters of the Greenland Sea and the Norwegian Sea south into the lower levels of the North Atlantic Ocean.

This makes it clear to what extent the variability in the inflow of «warm and salty» North Atlantic water at times of positive values of the NAO (North Atlantic Oscillation) dominates the temperature of the Atlantic water mass by importing «vast quantities of heat» into the Arctic Ocean to induce core temperatures in the intermediate layer in Nansen Basin that are much warmer than in the Canadian Basin, far downstream.

Of the 8.5 Sv of warm, salty Atlantic water that passes north across the Greenland ‐ Scotland Ridge annually, about 4.0 ± 2.5 Sv passes into the Barents Sea either directly to the north of Norway as a barotropic flow, or along the western coast of Spitzbergen as a baroclinic floOf the 8.5 Sv of warm, salty Atlantic water that passes north across the Greenland ‐ Scotland Ridge annually, about 4.0 ± 2.5 Sv passes into the Barents Sea either directly to the north of Norway as a barotropic flow, or along the western coast of Spitzbergen as a baroclinic floof warm, salty Atlantic water that passes north across the Greenland ‐ Scotland Ridge annually, about 4.0 ± 2.5 Sv passes into the Barents Sea either directly to the north of Norway as a barotropic flow, or along the western coast of Spitzbergen as a baroclinic floof Norway as a barotropic flow, or along the western coast of Spitzbergen as a baroclinic floof Spitzbergen as a baroclinic flow.

Scientists and municipal planners say the rising seas will likely turn underground aquifers into salty water, contaminating the drinking supply for millions of Floridians.

He noticed that the moist trade winds that cross the Isthmus of Panama and drop rain into the Pacific Ocean carry fresh water out of the Atlantic, leaving behind saltier water.

Because saltier water is denser and thus more likely to sink, the transport of salt poleward into the North Atlantic provides a potentially destabilizing advective feedback to the AMOC (Stommel, 1961); i.e., a reduction in the strength of the AMOC would lead to less salt being transported into the North Atlantic, and hence a further reduction in the AMOC would ensue.

The AMOC is a flow of warm, salty water that starts in the tropics and runs northward into the high latitudes, where the air is much colder and extracts heat from it.

More warm and salty subtropical surface water then can move northward into the eastern part of the North Atlantic basin.

Current methods of transforming salty sea water into drinkable water are land - and energy - intensive and are often powered by non-renewable sources of energy.

«Curry found that between 1965 and 1995, about 4,800 cubic miles of fresh water — more water than is in Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and Lake Huron combined — melted from the Arctic region and poured into the normally salty northern Atlantic.»