Sentences with phrase «upper ocean boundary»

His Medwin Prize Lecture (Vancouver Meeting) was titled «Acoustic explorations of the upper ocean boundary layer.»

He received the Prize for «development of experimental techniques to probe the upper ocean boundary layer.»

Not exact matches

As may be expected from the positions of ocean currents, most mixing in the upper layers of the ocean takes place on the western boundaries of ocean gyres where the current speeds are greatest.

Thus, some heat gets converted to kinetic energy, but that gets converted back to heat, either by viscosity or by thermally - indirect circulations that produce APE while pulling heat downward in the process (LHSO: Ferrel cell (driven by extratropical storm track activity), Planetary - scale overturning in the stratosphere and mesosphere (includes Brewer - Dobson circulation (I'm not sure if the whole thing is the Brewer - Dobson circulation or if only part of it is)-RRB-, some motions in the ocean; LVO: wind driven mixing of the boundary layer and of the upper ocean (though mixing itself tends to destroy the APE that the kinetic energy would create by forcing heat downward)-RRB-.

«The turbulent mixing in thin ocean surface boundary layers (OSBL), which occupy the upper 100 m or so of the ocean, control the exchange of heat and trace gases between the atmosphere and ocean.»

By the way — the upper 700 m «shallow» ocean is referred to as shallow because it's typically the depth above the thermocline, traditionally considered the boundary between shallow and deep regions.

Effects of hypoxia and ocean acidification on the upper thermal niche boundaries of coral reef fishes.

(Fingerprint studies draw conclusions about human causation that can be deduced from: (a) how the Earth warms in the upper and lower atmosphere, (b) warming in the oceans, (c) night - time vs day - time temperature increases, (d) energy escaping from the upper atmosphere versus energy trapped, (e) isotopes of CO2 in the atmosphere and coral that distinguish fossil CO2 from non-fossil CO2, (f) the height of the boundary between the lower and upper atmosphere, and (g) atmospheric oxygen levels decrease as CO2 levels increase.

If the subskin layer were first to dissipate and the upper boundary of the ocean bulk were to move up to meet the warmed skin layer then of course you would be right but that never happens.