In addition to reducing greenhouse emissions, we can
upwell cold water and nutrients to cool the surface and increase ocean food production.
This upwells cold water in the tropics and downwells warm water from the tropical surface out to the mid-latitude depths.
Not exact matches
«Essentially, the very
cold water that
upwells off the California coast and gives coastal California such a cool, benign climate also protects it from hurricanes.
During La Niña,
cold waters
upwell to cool large areas of the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
During normal conditions, trade winds blow to the west across the tropical Pacific Ocean, piling up warm surface water in the western Pacific, and
cold, deeper water rises up, or
upwells, off the west coast of South America.
Cold bottom water
upwells on the eastern margin.
During a La Nina the trade winds push warm water across the Pacific and
cold water
upwells behind it and heat is exchanged with the atmosphere.
Eventually this
cold water will
upwell in the tropics and release its CO2.
During La Niña,
cold waters
upwell to cool large areas of the equatorial Pacific Ocean.