Sentences with phrase «subducting water»

However, one potential criticism is that the model (the Cane - Zebiak model) does not allow for important extratropical feedbacks such as subducting water masses from the extratropics that eventually can influence the equatorial Pacific thermocline.

However, one potential criticism is that the model (the Cane - Zebiak model) does not allow for important extratropical feedbacks such as subducting water masses from the extratropics that eventually can influence the equatorial Pacific thermocline.

The back radiation which is entrained into the ocean bulk by wave action is minimal, because wave action subducts water which is well below the level back radiation can penetrate to (little more than its own wavelength).

Not exact matches

Jones and his colleagues propose the water came from the subducting Farallon oceanic plate under the Pacific Ocean 75 to 45 million years ago.

That's because the rising magma that produced the lavas probably mixed with upper mantle rocks, which have been contaminated with isotopically heavy surface water that got dragged down by subducting slabs of tectonic plates.

As the subducting plate sinks deeper into the earth, it encounters higher and higher temperatures and pressures, which release the significant amount of water trapped in waterrich minerals that exist within the slab.

In contrast, off the coast of central Oregon, the thick layer of subducting sediments are less compact, with water in the pore space between the grains.

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.

Water migrates upwards and causes the top of the subducted oceanic crust to melt, producing magma beneath the Cascade volcanoes.

Hydration reactions along the subducting plate are thought to carry water deep into the Earth, and dehydration reactions at greater depths release fluids into the overlying mantle that promote melting and volcanism.

Song and team believe that it may be subducted oceanic crust at unusually high levels of water saturation.

In subtropical regions, its source waters are typically surface waters at higher latitudes that have subducted and moved equatorward.

Some of the warm water would be subducted by Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation / Thermohaline Circulation, some would be carried by ocean currents into the Arctic Ocean where it would melt sea ice, and the remainder would be spun southward by the North Atlantic gyre toward the tropics so it could be warmed more by the effects of the slower - than - normal trade winds.

As this heat moves counter-clockwise around the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia and Alaska, it subducts, that is, it is covered by cold water that floats above the warm Atlantic water.

Also, it needs to be understood that eastern boundary currents are part of this meridional overturning circulation (transport and upwelling of water originating as polar water previously subducted)

However, it must be borne in mind that the MOC can also include shallower, wind - driven overturning cells such as occur in the upper ocean in the tropics and subtropics, in which warm (light) waters moving poleward are transformed to slightly denser waters and subducted equatorward at deeper levels.