Sentences with phrase «stratified ocean layers»

Or if you look at Klemeà... ⟠ take on long - term variability, you need look no further than long - term «storage» of energy in things like glaciers, or even in stratified ocean layers.

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The rising temperatures cause layers of ocean water to stratify so the more oxygen - rich surface waters are less able to mix with oxygen - poor waters from the deeper ocean.

Increased ocean temperatures also make the waters more stratified — preventing nutrient - rich water from below from rising to the surface and oxygen - rich water from reaching the middle layers.

The ocean is known to be thermally stratified, with a warm layer, some hundreds of meters thick, lying on top of a cold deep ocean (a).

With less mixing, respiration by organisms in the mid-water layers of stratified oceans will produce oxygen - poor waters, so - called oxygen minimum zones (OMZs).

Please refer to textbooks like the book of S.A. Thorpe The turbulent ocean, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 439 pages, for an explanation that the idea of a stratified ocean limited to a 50 m top layer is foreign to reality.

Changes in ocean - atmosphere circulation have left the southern ocean stratified − a cold layer at the surface, and a warmer ocean lapping the base of the ice below.

When the MJO inhibits convection, light winds and clear skies allow the upper few meters of the ocean to warm and separate into stable layers stratified by temperature and salinity.

Were this not so, only the surface oceans would warm, the surface layers would stratify, and surface warming would be occurring much faster than it is.

In such events, the oceans become stratified, with warm layers acting as «lid» on deeper, cooler water.

The Arctic Ocean is highly stratified with a roughly 50 metre thick layer of cold relatively fresh water above a thermocline where the water temperature and salinity both increase with depth.