Sentences with phrase «vast ocean conveyor»
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The sink in the Greenland Sea is simply part of a vast conveyor belt that carries the North Atlantic's excess salt to the less salty southern oceans and eventually to the Pacific Ocean.
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Nothing like this happens in the Pacific Ocean (which is, in consequence, about 5 °C cooler), but the Pacific is nonetheless affected, because the sink in the Nordic Seas is part of a vast worldwide salt - conveyor belt.
A fundamental element of today's climate system is a conveyor - like ocean circulation pattern that distributes vast quantities of heat and moisture around our planet.