Sentences with phrase «salty bottom water»

The salty bottom water flows west and out the bottom of the Strait of Gibraltar into the Atlantic Ocean.

The density difference between cold, salty bottom water and the warm surface prevent effective mixing.

Not exact matches

The crew found the three new species of Loricifera (jellyfish - like animals less than a millimeter long) in the sediment of L'Atalante Basin, a zone of salty, oxygen - depleted water at the bottom of the Mediterranean.

Pour warm water on the salt and it will start to dissolve, with salty water in the bottom of the glass and less salty water at the top,» says Wilson.

This would shut down a global ocean circulation system that is driven by dense, salty water falling to the bottom of the north Atlantic and that ultimately produces the Gulf Stream.

The warm Atlantic water was saltier, and therefore heavier and subducted at depth and reached to the bottom, actually heating up beneath a lid of ice and melt water, that prevented the release of heat to the atmosphere.

Many physicists predicted that the gravitational bear hug Jupiter exerted on Europa as the moon drifted closer to the planet in its elliptical orbit, and the subsequent release as it drifted away, would generate friction and heat — enough heat, scientists guessed, to keep the bottom 50 or so miles of that salty water completely melted.

We might have a saviour in the form of the growing antarctic ice sheets in the southern winter as this causes much more planckton to form on the undersurface of the forming ice sheet driving super saturated salty waters deep into the circum polar antarctic bottom waters which is the main driver of the Great Oceanic Conveyor and later on it's travels the AMOC.

In shallow seas that dominated subtropical regions, warm salty water became dense enough to sink to the bottom.

(Page 384) The cold, saltier water sinks and starts moving back towards the equator along the bottom of the ocean.

The cold, saltier water sinks and starts moving back towards the equator along the bottom of the ocean.

Many factors — like the thermohaline circulation, which reverses direction at the poles as warm salty water releases heat into the air and sinks down to the bottom — are heavily influenced by the ocean's salinity, and thus, the movement of freshwater into and around the Arctic plays an important role in shaping both regional and global climate.

The heavier, hotter, saltier waters sank — carrying with them the Equatorial surface heat which they then delivered to the ocean bottom.

This lower - density water does not mix and sink as readily as colder, saltier water, and may be changing the rate of bottom water renewal.

It, too, has a salty waterfall, which pours the hypersaline bottom waters of the Greenland Sea and the Norwegian Sea south into the lower levels of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Two items: the first, the layered Ocean currents, fresh water on top, then the warmer but saltier layer and finally the deep bottom layer.

We also have more brine rejection from sea ice that sends a lot of very cold, very salty water to the bottom of the ocean in a hurry.

The fjords contain cold, fresh Arctic water on top and warm, salty waters from the Gulf Stream at the bottom.

However, the upwelling of cold water off of the east coast of South American is also part of the meridional overturning of the ocean that begins with the sinking of cold salty water near the poles (thermohaline circulation) that forms the characteristic deep water found at the bottom of the major oceans.

The reason why the water on the bottom of the Antarctic Ocean is getting less salty is because the melting ice is dropping straight down to the ocean floor.

This sea ice formation creates cold, dense, salty water that sinks to the seafloor and forms very dense Antarctic bottom water.

In the ocean the effect of the polynya is the massive production of salty, freezing point shelf water that is the prime ingredient in the formation of the globally important Antarctic Bottom Water and associated ventilation of the world owater that is the prime ingredient in the formation of the globally important Antarctic Bottom Water and associated ventilation of the world oWater and associated ventilation of the world ocean.

They found that the dense, salty water from the Marmara Sea — which leads out to the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas at the other end of the Bosphorus — is flowing out of the strait and along the bottom of the Black Sea, carrying along sediment and nutrients that could be key in providing vital nutrients to remote parts of the ocean.

The AMOC results in cold, relatively salty surface waters in the far North Atlantic exchanging with bottom water.

Before 1980 this salty water reached the surface releasing large amounts of heat, then cooled and sank to the bottom of the ocean.

This layering results from a strong density gradient: water layers near the surface are less salty and therefore less dense, while bottom waters are the densest.