Sentences with phrase «stable water depth»

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It also occurs in the sea bed of warmer waters where they are of sufficient depth to enable it to remain stable.

A lot of reseach energy is being devoted to the study of Methane Clathrates — a huge source of greenhouse gases which could be released from the ocean if the thermocline (the buoyant stable layer of warm water which overlies the near - freezing deep ocean) dropped in depth considerably (due to GHG warming), or especially if the deep ocean waters were warmed by very, very extreme changes from the current climate, such that deep water temperatures no longer hovered within 4C of freezing, but warmed to something like 18C.

The vertical temperature profile may also play a role, as warmer water is lighter, and thus the stability of the water column depends on how fast the temperature drops with depth — more stable water column is less prone to mixing.

It also occurs in the sea bed of warmer waters where they are of sufficient depth to enable it to remain stable.

Given the depth of the water, the relatively small vertical turnover, and the limited outflow (one river), it is surprising (to me) that the temperature at depth isn't stable at about 4.0 °C, as it is in most other lakes of reasonable depth.

However, even in the cold Arctic Ocean, methane hydrate is only stable below about 200 m water depth, making for an inefficient pathway to the atmosphere at best.

[9] However, it is also thought that fresh water used in the pressurization of oil and gas wells in permafrost and along the continental shelves worldwide combines with natural methane to form clathrate at depth and pressure, since methane hydrates are more stable in fresh water than in salt water.