Sentences with phrase «warm surface water toward»

One result is a flow of cold deep water toward the equator and warm surface water toward the poles, and this «overturning circulation» plays a crucial role in moving heat around the globe.

Not exact matches

Surface waters become warm enough (in spring) or cool enough (in autumn) to reach 4 ° Celsius, the temperature at which these waters become dense and sink toward the lake's bottom, mixing the waters.

While at single buoys the water may have warmed faster or slower than other locations, globally, there is a clear trend toward higher sea surface temperatures.

Imagine this place being like a pool of warm water, and allow your attention to flow back from the surface of your forehead, toward the center of your skull — as though sinking from the surface of a pool of water to its depths.

Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)

However, there is little change in the force needed to mechanically mix the warm waters toward the surface, against the stronger stratification.

It represents in a simple way how ocean currents carry warm surface waters from the equator toward the poles and moderate global climate.»

You may be familiar with part of this circulation, the Gulf Stream, which brings warm, tropical surface water northward along the East Coast of the United States and funnels toward the poles.

Is the heat in the warm water mixed toward the surface to melt the ice in the deep basin?

The extra boost from the warmer water is adding even more energy into this storm system, increasing the availability and transport of moisture toward land and producing more efficient wind gusts to the surface.

The overturning circulation pushes water through the Atlantic Basin, distributing heat as it moves warmer surface water from the tropics toward Greenland and the high northern latitudes and carries colder, deeper water from the North Atlantic southward.

But when the cycle reverses, and deep ocean waters cycle back toward the surface, the warming increase will continue on as the long term observed trend has shown.

(In the full 4 - dimensional climate, in some places and times and weather conditions, there will be sensible heat transfer toward the surface; there can be latent heat transfer to the surface as well (frost / dew); some places will have evaporative surface cooling with sensible surface heating (cold dry air blowing over warm water or a warm moist surface).