Sentences with phrase «stratified upper ocean»

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However, the ocean is very strongly stratified, and the interaction with the bulk of the deep cold water is very slow — it is generally the upper ocean that determines the time scale for the transient warming we might expect.

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.