Sentences with phrase «prevents warmer ocean water»

The mighty Southern Ocean Circumpolar Current prevents warmer ocean water from reaching the Antarctic sea ice zone, helping to isolate the continent.

That might include draining away the water that lubricates the bottom of an ice sheet, speeding its progress to the sea, or installing barriers to prevent warming ocean waters from hitting the bottom of such glaciers and hastening meltdown.

Not exact matches

For example, the Gulf of Mexico has an east - west coastline that prevents a northerly or poleward shift of species in response to warming ocean waters,.

Cassini discovered a liquid - water ocean under the icy surface of the moon Enceladus and, perhaps a victim of its own success, must die to prevent any chance that its warm electric generators might melt their way down into those life - friendly waters.

Warmer air temperatures help prevent ocean water from freezing over in the first place, and winds can push the ice together, keeping ice extent lower.

Reefs: Natural temperature - limiting processes may prevent ocean surface waters from warming past levels dangerous to corals, at least in some important regions, according to a study being published in Geophysical Research Letters on Saturday.

In turn the ocean surfaces prevent the air from warming because water always dictates the temperature of the air above.

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.

It's even possible that that the Triple R played a role in sustaining itself by reducing North Pacific storm activity and preventing vertical mixing of cooler sub-surface ocean water, culminating in a self - reinforcing feedback loop by which atmospheric ridging led to warm SSTs, which in turn led to more ridging, and so on.

The warming of the surface of the ocean is thought to increase stratification within the water column, preventing the nutrients in the cool

The warming of the surface of the ocean is thought to increase stratification within the water column, preventing the nutrients in the cool deep ocean from rising to the surface.

This creates an effective barrier preventing bottom warmed water from reaching the surface (unless you believe in back - conduction of course; — RRB - Cooling of the deep oceans is only possible at high latitudes.