Sentences with phrase «salty shelf water»
How do the water column profile and dense salty shelf water (HSSW) characteristics evolve on time scales ranging from sub-synoptic to the annual cycle?
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They found that western Antarctica has recently seen warmer, saltier water being driven under the shelf — the part of the ice sheet that sticks out over the ocean (Science, doi.org/xkx).
The ice shelf floats within a pool of its own cold meltwater that sits atop a deeper, saltier and warmer layer; the two layers generally don't mix, like oil and water.
The Amazon plume, the area where fresh water from the river mixes with the salty Atlantic Ocean, creates gaps in the reef distribution along the tropical shelves, making it difficult for the corals to grow.
That creates a return flow of warmer, saltier water toward Antarctica, where it's eroding ice shelves from beneath.»
That creates a return flow of warmer, saltier water toward Antarctica, where it's eroding ice shelves from beneath.»
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.
Temperature and salinity of shelf waters fluctuate seasonally (from 10 to 29 °C and from 33.0 to 36.5 psu), whereas warm and salty surface Gulf Stream waters are much less variable.