Sentences with phrase «saline bottom water»

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As the Atlantic Ocean's water gets fresher from the melting ice caps, the warm, saline, and more dense Gulf Stream sinks further south, taking the warmer water with to the bottom of the ocean.

Due to the refrigerator effect, cold saline Antarctic Bottom Water (proto - AABW) began to dominate the ocean floor.

Contributions of Warm Saline Deep Water (WSDW) diminished, and the influential Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) was increasingly cooled by much colder Antarctic Bottom Water.