Sentences with phrase «pumping deep ocean water»

Kevin C @ 33, pumping deep ocean water to the surface will in fact draw down excess CO2, but only by limiting the extent to which the ocean will further draw down CO2 once we stop pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.

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In his letter, Alec Dunn suggests that pumping nutrient - rich deep ocean water to the surface would stimulate plankton growth and...

In his letter, Alec Dunn suggests that pumping nutrient - rich deep ocean water to the surface would stimulate plankton growth and hence capture atmospheric carbon (18 August, p 32).

Think of what would happen if you could pump cold deep water up to the surface, increasing the air / sea temperature gradient and warming the water; that would give you an anomalously large ocean heat uptake.

IF cool deep sea water were mixed relentlessly with surface water by some engineering method --(e.g. lots of wave operated pumps and 800m pipes) could that enouromous cool reservoir of water a) mitigate the thermal expansion of the oceans because of the differential in thermal expansion of cold and warm water, and b) cool the atmosphere enough to reduce the other wise expected effects of global warming?

Another is to nourish the ocean surface waters, by pumping deep, nutrient - rich bottom water to the surface to give algae a chance to bloom across the oceans.

«To explain in a little more detail: Biology - driven processes in the Southern Ocean (e.g., biological pump efficiency) make this area potentially an even bigger sink than what is described in the article, which focusses on physical processes (i.e., upwelling of «old» deep water).