Sentences with phrase «warmer subsurface water»

The upper 3 meters of the world's oceans hold more heat than the entire atmosphere, so continual ventilation of just 10 meters of warmer subsurface water will affect the global average for decades.

Intruding water maintains a thick layer of warmer subsurface water several hundred meters thick.

Studying how that turbulence mixes relatively warm subsurface water with colder water at the surface.

New research shows how easterly winds in the summer of 2014 caused the anomalously warm subsurface water of the tropical Pacific — which presages an El Niño event and formed following the early 2014 westerly wind burst — to never discharge poleward, thereby remaining in the tropical Pacific and giving a head start to the developing 2015 - 16 El Niño.

Thus, the static stability of the near - surface water increases and the convective mixing of cold surface water with the relatively warm subsurface water is reduced, thereby contributing to the reduction of sea surface temperature in the Circumpolar Ocean.

Not exact matches

Scientists say Charon could have been warm enough to cause the water ice to melt deep down, creating a subsurface ocean.

They based it on a subsurface plume of warm water, called a Kelvin wave, surging from west to east across the tropical Pacific.

The moon's south pole has strange, warm fractures, and plumes of liquid water from a subsurface ocean many believed was impossible in such a small, cold world.

The search for this subsurface ocean warmed up after scientists discovered plumes of mineral - rich water vapor squirting out of cracks near the south pole.

Closer investigation of these plumes, originating from geysers blasting from polar fissures in Enceladus» icy crust, revealed this water was coming from a warm subsurface salty ocean and the water was laced with hydrocarbons and ammonia, or «many of the ingredients that life would need if it were to start in an environment like that,» Soderblom tells HowStuffWorks.

These episodes occurred toward the end of a period of hundreds of millions of years during which warm water interacted with subsurface rocks.

Heat can change ocean dynamics and eventually will increase glacial melting, which is mainly responding to subsurface water rather than air warming.

Highly cited Holland et al 2008 (Acceleration of Jakobshavn Isbræ triggered by warm subsurface ocean waters) uses 20 year grided dataset of subsurf ocean T from commercial fishing industry.

Clearly, warmer waters can produce more intense hurricanes, especially if the depth profile also shows warming in the subsurface layers.

Arctic subsurface waters are also warmer than normal, meaning that ice formation over the winter will be lower than usual.

And what happens to all of the subsurface warm water that had shifted east during the El Niño and had remained below the surface.

But again, I have to ask a question that you have not answered: How does the heat trapped by CO2 at the surface skin warm the subsurface ocean waters since it is widely acknowledged that the infrared heat from CO2 can't penetrate into the ocean itself?

The results suggest that warm Atlantic water never ceased to flow into the Nordic seas during the glacial period; inflow at the surface during the Holocene and warm interstadials changed to subsurface and intermediate inflow during cold stadials.

Let's see — a negative SAM --(http://curriculum.pmartineau.webfactional.com/monitoring-southern-hemisphere-stratospheric-vortex-fluctuations-and-tropospheric-coupling/)-- pushes cold water along the Peruvian Current to the Nino1 +2 zone dissipating the warm surface mixed layer and allowing cold subsurface upwelling.

dana1981 - An additional part of that correction is that the deeper subsurface Antarctic waters are (relatively) warmer than surface waters, not colder as stated in the OP.

The warm water and calm winds of this periodic Pacific tropical condition are «a big way to get subsurface heat back to the surface.»

The temperature of the water below the surface remained above - average, as the large area of warmer - than - average subsurface waters continued to move slowly to the east (a downwelling Kelvin wave).

Because solar heating has declined and (according to the IPCC) added CO2 has little impact on heating tropical waters as discussed in part 2, subsurface heat should decline and future ventilations will not cause a resumption in a warming trend.

Then, as the La Nina of 1998/99/00 / 01 progressed, the trade winds, Pacific Equatorial Currents, and a phenomenon known as a Rossby wave returned the remaining surface and subsurface warm water to the western Pacific.

The layer of warm surface water that was blown west is then replaced by cooler water from the subsurface, cooling the entire tropical Pacific.

After the warm surface waters have been stripped and pumped poleward by the wind, the subsurface waters are cooler than before.

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It does that by pumping warm water from the surface Pacific to the poles and replacing it with cooler subsurface water.

Localized rapid warming of West Antarctic subsurface waters by remote winds (Nature Climate Change)

Warming of surface ocean waters is well known, but how the subsurface waters are changing is less clear.

The study found that the Pacific Ocean is the main source of the subsurface warm water but some of these waters have already been pushed to the Indian Ocean.

Reduced equatorial cloud cover during La Nina (due to the cooler sea surface temperature), combined with the strong upwelling (Ekman suction) in the eastern equatorial Pacific, does indeed lead to greater warming of the ocean - because it's bringing cool subsurface water to the surface, where it can be heated by the sun.

Based on discussions with my colleagues Rong Zhang and Mike Winton, this seems to be a consequence of an AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) which builds in strength when the aerosol cooling is strong, trying to balance a part of the cooling at the surface with warm waters advected in from the tropics, but also — by a process that is not particularly straightforward — cools the subsurface waters.