Sentences with phrase «polar waters»

To cool the oceans, the cold polar waters drop into the depths because they are more dense.

There the tropical water encounters the far colder and fresher polar water.

This cold polar water eventually returns to the surface in a variety of different ways.

The boundary between the warm polar water and warm tropical water is very clearly defined in most parts of the world and the map generally reflects this pattern.

`... The halocline is far more important in polar waters in producing water column stratification.

gnomish says: April 8, 2012 at 8:55 pm (Edit) maybe the co2 came out of the cold polar waters when it warmed rather than from the warmer equatorial ones that were already depleted?

Multiyear records of remotely sensed tDOM distributions provide direct evidence of how the routing, inventory, storage and residence time of tDOM in surface polar waters change in response to climatic forcing.

They are driving fishing fleets further out to sea, ushering tropical fish into polar waters, and worsening flood hazards for coastal communities.

Blowing on polar water is like blowing on a layered cocktail.

Not meaning to give them an out, but if normally the sinking polar water is x degrees and now it is x +1 degrees (but still colder than the water it is sinking into) then heat will be transported to depth.

While cautioning against jumping to dire conclusions based on the sighting of open polar water, Dr. Serreze of the ice data center is the principal author of a review article, published this summer in the Dutch journal Climate Change, on Arctic environmental change over decades and centuries.

Microplastics in Arctic polar waters: the first reported values of particles in surface and sub-surface samples.

Hurtigruten has been sailing polar waters since 1893 - over 125 years!

Explanations for this have included physiological barriers, an example being the decapod crustaceans, which have an inability to down - regulate blood magnesium levels sufficiently below that of seawater, leading to a loss of activity and eventual death at polar water temperatures [57].

New automated submarines, for instance, now allow scientists to probe polar waters long considered too difficult to explore.

It has also decreased the amount of the oldest, thickest Arctic sea ice, leaving polar waters dominated by thinner ice that forms in the fall and melts in the summer.

In the future, Nereus could also be used under ice - capped polar waters.

Enceladus is subject to forces that heat a global ocean of liquid water under its icy surface, resulting in its famous south polar water jets which are just visible below the moon's dark, southern limb.

The new ship's maneuverability and optimal size make her quite suitable for exploring polar waters.

Set out on an expedition with MS Spitsbergen, our latest expedition ship - equipped and adapted for sailings in polar waters throughout Arctic regions.

The impacts from a changing climate also loom, from potentially shifting the abundance and distribution of essential prey species to melting previously ice - locked polar waters that will expose whales to even more human activity.

«Being able to track and forecast the tracks of these huge blocks of ice will be a major benefit to the shipping industry, particularly as more ships begin to use polar waters, as Arctic sea ice melts.

They based their findings on analysis of the chemical isotopes locked in ancient ice from the Weddell Sea embayment, and the evidence suggests that in the past, when polar waters became more stratified, the ice sheets melted much more quickly.

Also, it needs to be understood that eastern boundary currents are part of this meridional overturning circulation (transport and upwelling of water originating as polar water previously subducted)

This spectacularly beautiful island is often summed up as being like Switzerland dropped into polar waters.

In December of 2007, the BBC highlighted alleged «modeling studies» that supposedly «indicate northern polar waters could be ice - free in summers within just 5 - 6 years.»

I guess he doesn't know (or doesn't say) that his corporate sponsors are using the ongoing decrease in arctic ice as a reason to explore more drilling sites in north polar waters.

Dr. McCarthy said he would report the encounter with open polar water to environmental scientists and consult other scientists to see if new satellite remote - sensing data have detected the extent of the melting.

Here we use a general ocean circulation model to test the hypothesis that this relation is due to the reduced sensitivity of seawater density to temperature at low mean temperature; that is, at lower temperatures the surface cooling is not as effective at densifying fresh polar waters and initiating convection.

A new public web portal, designed to support implementation of IMO's Polar Code for ships operating in polar waters, has been welcomed by IMO's Stefan Micallef, Assistant Secretary - General and Director of the Marine Environment Division.

[Response: Outgassing is very regionally dependent since it is a function of the upwelling of deeper (colder) water that is high in dissolved inorganic carbon (mainly from the remineralisation of falling biological matter and the advection of polar water to depth).