Sentences with phrase «warm deep water»

My back of the envelope calculation suggests that we should be able to do this for several centuries without warming the deep waters very much while maintaining constant surface water temps.

Due to both bottom - boundary layer friction and interior adjustment, this coastal current anomaly facilitates the movement of warmer deep water upward onto the continental shelf and toward the coast (see Figure).

About 19 months after the wind churned the ocean, cycling warm deep waters upward and sending the cold surface waters down, the Totten ice shelf was noticeably thinner and had sped up.

Dr Hillenbrand continues: «Our reconstruction shows that warm deep water flooded Pine Island Bay at the end of the last ice age.

A shift in the wind direction during the 1940s caused renewed upwelling of warm deep water on to the shelf.

Driven by stronger winds resulting from climate change, ocean waters in the Southern Ocean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of the ice.

By comparing these shells with those of modern shells bathed in warm deep water today the researchers were able to identify time intervals when warm deep water was either present or absent.

The Cosgrove Ice Shelf doesn't provide major drainage today for WAIS as it did earlier in the Holocene epoch, but it still has lessons to teach scientists about how outlet glaciers can react when exposed to warmer deep water, she added.

Eventually the surface water became denser than the warming deep water and started to sink, causing the corrosive deep water mass to spill over the ridge — overflowing the «giant bath tub».