Sentences with phrase «reservoir of cold water»

However, there is also a huge reservoir of cold water in the deep oceans.

Ray Ladbury wrote at 27 «However, there is also a huge reservoir of cold water in the deep oceans.

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«While cold traps may provide surface deposits of water ice as have been seen at the moon and Mercury, Ceres may have been formed with a relatively greater reservoir of water,» said Chris Russell, principal investigator of the Dawn mission, based at the University of California, Los Angeles.

[1] Martian lava tubes could possibly trap volatiles such as water which is considered essential for life, and may also contain reservoirs of ancient ice since cold air can pool in lava tubes and temperatures remain stable.

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?

To mitigate these impacts, aerating turbines can be installed to increase dissolved oxygen and multi-level water intakes can help ensure that water released from the reservoir comes from all levels of the reservoir, rather than just the bottom (which is the coldest and has the lowest dissolved oxygen).

Ice has a huge albedo compared to everything else, and represents an enormous reservoir of cold fresh water deposited on continent - sized chunks of the globe (not to mention winter snowfall in regions where it isn't «permanent» and glaciers where it is).

It's quite simply additional cold water from that vast reservoir of coldness getting to the surface.