Sentences with phrase «vertical temperature gradient»

Thermocline - The layer of maximum vertical temperature gradient in the ocean, lying between the surface ocean and the abyssal ocean.

As regards Katrina, although were it not for AGW a hurricane as damaging as Katrina might have occurred if one were to wait long enough, surely Katrina itself was made more damaging by AGW as that was a factor contributing to Caribbean SSTs and the local tropospheric vertical temperature gradients at that point in time?

Nevertheless, they are quite adequate to create and maintain strong vertical temperature gradients and major temperature differences across the globe.

That suggests a role for vertical temperature gradients in strengthening winds, such vertical gradients should increase with more global warming.

From the Argo temperature probes, calculating vertical temperature gradients throughout the 700 m depth should be able to tell whether or not the heating is coming mostly from the surface (i.e. due to SW solar and LW radiation absorption in the top layers of the ocean) or from the ocean depth.

The atmosphere changes in its stability - a strong vertical temperature gradient can either increase turbulence (if it is warmer below - warm air wants to rise) or decrease turbulence (cold air below - tends to resist upward movement).

Secondly, the design of the system helps to reduce the vertical temperature gradient along the envelope, homogenizing the air temperature in the chambers throughout the year.

The flash - freezing procedure establishes a vertical temperature gradient within the glass bottle.

«Neither the vertical temperature gradient nor the vertical pressure gradient drive winds, at least directly,» Summers said.

specifically deny that there is a vertical temperature gradient in the column at equilibrium for any number of particles» is based on confusing two different usages of «temperature.»