Sentences with phrase «upwell from»

Consider oyster farmers in the Pacific Northwest, who have seen over 90 percent of their oyster «spat» (their term for baby oysters) die off when corrosive waters upwell from the deep Pacific onto the continental shelf.

This heavy element upwells from a star's core (where it is produced) to the surface (near where it is observed) in a phase called the third dredge - up, when material in deep helium - burning layers is brought to the surface through convection.

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.

A new study led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics has found that wind over the ocean off the coast of East Antarctica causes warm, deep waters to upwell, circulate under Totten Ice Shelf, and melt the fringes of the East Antarctic ice sheet from below.

That is, increased upwelling also increases salt upwelling from the deep, which makes the column of water heavier and more difficult to upwell.

This upwells cold water in the tropics and downwells warm water from the tropical surface out to the mid-latitude depths.

The AMO should be out of phase in the region of the Antarctic circumpolar ocean (21), where deep water from the North Atlantic upwells.

These findings suggest that there are two sources of low ∆ 14C waters that upwell at the Galapagos, Subantarctic Mode Water and shallow overturning water from the subpolar North Pacific.