Sentences with phrase «saline water below»

As temperatures cool dramatically in the winter, ice forms and intense vertical convection allows the water to become dense enough to sink below the warm saline water below.

Not exact matches

When the ice forms salt is excluded and the higher salinity water right below the forming ice sinks like a rock but gradually mixes along the way down with warmer less saline water.
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