Sentences with phrase «of warm salty waters»

The «Agulhas leakage» of warm salty waters from the Indian Ocean, appears to be increasing, says the study - and that could help prevent the predicted slow - down of the North Atlantic Drift.

In addition, it's hard to say how the wind - driven Atlantic gyre (whose western intensification drives the Gulf Stream's transport of warm salty water northward) will affect a weakened northern end of the AMOC.

Before 2006, our warm salt subduction mechanism does not allow the Atlantic to cool when its subpolar salinity was increasing, because poleward transport of warm salty water and increasing subpolar subduction are parts of the same mechanism of enhanced AMOC upper - ocean transport.

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Smaller, younger leaves may be better; a frost sometimes boosts the sweet side of Brassicas; or, soaking leaves in warm salty water for half an hour before roasting might be helpful.

«The undersides of glaciers in deeper valleys are exposed to warm, salty Atlantic water, while the others are perched on sills, protected from direct exposure to warmer ocean water,» said Romain Millan, lead author of the study, available online in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters.

A very cold but relatively fresh water layer covers a much warmer and saltier water mass, thus acting as an insulating layer,» explains Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif, head of the Research Division at GEOMAR.

They found that western Antarctica has recently seen warmer, saltier water being driven under the shelf — the part of the ice sheet that sticks out over the ocean (Science, doi.org/xkx).

The incoming water, part of the global conveyor belt of currents circulating throughout the oceans, is relatively warm and salty compared with the rest of the Southern Ocean.

Pour warm water on the salt and it will start to dissolve, with salty water in the bottom of the glass and less salty water at the top,» says Wilson.

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.

But in the longer term, thousands of years from now, waters in the North Pacific may eventually become warm and salty enough to establish a PMOC, just as there was in the Pliocene.

The study also found that the warming of the upper 300 meters (roughly 1,000 feet) of the Northwest Atlantic increases salinity due to a change in water mass distribution related to a retreat of the colder, fresher Labrador Current and a northerly shift of the warmer, saltier Gulf Stream.

The argument is that the increased separation of the Antarctic land mass from South America led to the creation of the powerful Antarctic Circumpolar Current which acted as a kind of water barrier and effectively blocked the warmer, less salty waters from the North Atlantic and Central Pacific from moving southwards towards the Antarctic land mass leading to the isolation of the Antarctic land mass and lowered temperatures which allowed the ice sheets to form.

The warm Atlantic water was saltier, and therefore heavier and subducted at depth and reached to the bottom, actually heating up beneath a lid of ice and melt water, that prevented the release of heat to the atmosphere.

One intriguing possibility: If fluid water does persist on Mars, life that might have thrived there millions of years ago, when the climate was warmer and wetter, could be hanging on in thin layers of salty water just beneath the surface.

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

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.

This shift strengthens the ocean currents that bring warm, salty water to the surface, where it accelerates the melting of Antarctic ice.

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

Lowest readings of dissolved oxygen were found in late summers, as is the case in other estuaries along the Oregon coast, when incoming salty seawater settles longer in the estuary and warmer, drier conditions reduce the amount of fresh water from the Coos River.

Europa is now thought to have an global ocean of salty water or slush rather than warm convecting ice below its icy crust (more).

Closer investigation of these plumes, originating from geysers blasting from polar fissures in Enceladus» icy crust, revealed this water was coming from a warm subsurface salty ocean and the water was laced with hydrocarbons and ammonia, or «many of the ingredients that life would need if it were to start in an environment like that,» Soderblom tells HowStuffWorks.

Too much of the polar water, which is also less salty, and the Gulf Stream could be displaced to the south, removing the flow of water that currently warms England and Northern Europe....

That creates a return flow of warmer, saltier water toward Antarctica, where it's eroding ice shelves from beneath.»

Since the waters of the Mediterranean have been getting both warmer and saltier, http://www.livescience.com/6510-mediterranean-sea-saltier-hotter.html the needed change is in the correct direction.

In today's ocean, warm, salty surface water from the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the equatorial Atlantic flows northward in the Gulf Stream.

We were less than 5 minutes walking distance from Kata Beach where we enjoyed 3 blissful days of surfing in turquoise and deliciously warm, salty water.

Instead of floating in warm, salty water off the coast of Central America, we hopped on an early flight home and ended up having the perfect staycation in San Diego.

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As a result, while a layer of ice - cold fresh water sits just beneath the sea ice, about 20 meters (65 feet) down there is a layer of denser, saltier water that has been gradually warmed by the sun's rays.

The negative slope of the seabed creates a halosiphon (salt - driven) loop, with salty, warmer sea - water replacing cold fresh water from the melt.

The salinity levels of the northern ocean region are also influence by the inflow of warm and salty water from lower latitudes in the Atlantic Ocean.

This warmed salty dense water is some of the water that sinks to replace the cold water that came up near South America.

A pan-Arctic melt of 9,000 Gt of sea ice presumably provides a significant quantity of cold fresh water to shield the pack ice from warmer deeper salty waters.

The authors postulated that this warm salty water (WSW) layer, situated beneath the colder surface freshwater in the North Atlantic, generated ocean convective available potential energy (OCAPE) over decades at the end of HS1.

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.

But your link shows that warm saltier water can be denser than colder fresher water, I should have remembered that as it is one of the factors that drives the thermo - haline circulation.

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.

Intruding dense salty warm water also generates a reservoir of Arctic heat stored between 100 and 900 meters depth.

Carved by earlier advances of ice during colder periods, the troughs enable warm, salty water to reach the undersides of glaciers, fueling their increasingly rapid retreat.

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.

This circumpolar deep water, which is relatively warm and salty compared to other parts of the Southern Ocean, has warmed and shoaled in recent decades, and can melt ice at the base of glaciers which reduces friction and allows them to flow more freely.

That creates a return flow of warmer, saltier water toward Antarctica, where it's eroding ice shelves from beneath.»

This water warms up to the east, where it becomes saltier and then sinks in the Levantine Sea before circulating west and exiting through the Strait of Gibraltar.

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.

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation A major current in the Atlantic Ocean, characterized by a northward flow of warm, salty water in the upper layers of the Atlantic, and a southward flow of colder water in the deep Atlantic.

47 Warm, shallow current Cold, salty, deep current Fig. 20 - 12, p. 476 Figure 20.12 Natural capital: a connected loop of shallow and deep ocean currents stores CO2 in the deep sea and transports warm and cool water to various parts of the eaWarm, shallow current Cold, salty, deep current Fig. 20 - 12, p. 476 Figure 20.12 Natural capital: a connected loop of shallow and deep ocean currents stores CO2 in the deep sea and transports warm and cool water to various parts of the eawarm and cool water to various parts of the earth.

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.

The effects of this marked shift in westerly winds are already being seen today, triggering warm and salty water to be drawn up from the deep ocean, melting large sections of the Antarctic ice sheet with unknown consequences for future sea level rise while the ability of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to soak up heat and carbon from the atmosphere remains deeply uncertain.

Less of that freshwater - > Arctic siphons «extra» warm / salty water from north Pacific, via Bering's death to the ice.