Sentences with phrase «water column stratification»

In addition to this natural variability, humans have perturbed climate by increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations, which have increased ocean temperatures, water column stratification, hypoxia, and water column anoxia and have decreased surface ocean pH [6], [7].

`... The halocline is far more important in polar waters in producing water column stratification.

Global warming is expected to exacerbate the situation, through its effects on oxygen solubility and water column stratification.

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This results in an effective stratification of the water column, which prevents the mixing of water masses necessary to transfer oxygen to the water at the bottom.

The injection of so much cold water, they say, could lead to a stratification of the water column, with warm water buried underneath cold surface water.

The resulting weaker density stratification allowed more vertical mixing of the water column during storms in late September and early October, leading to the observed warming of the near - bottom layer in the still ice - free Laptev Sea... Warmer water temperatures near the seabed may also impact the stability of the shelf's submarine permafrost.»

Phytoplankton respond very quickly when the right conditions occur, growing and reproducing as soon as a slight stratification of the water column occurs.

A warming surface ocean is also likely to increase the density stratification of the water column (i.e., Steinacher et al., 2010), altering the circulation and potentially increasing the isolation of waters in an OMZ from contact with the atmosphere, hence increasing the intensity of the OMZ.

-- then the answer is probably very little — the traditional thinking (Sverdrup's critical depth concept) has the bloom requiring stratification (otherwise algae moved up and down by mixing spend too little time in the illuminated part of the water column).

The warming of the surface of the ocean is thought to increase stratification within the water column, preventing the nutrients in the cool

This results in more stratification in the water column and a decrease in the vertical mixing of nutrients.

The warming of the surface of the ocean is thought to increase stratification within the water column, preventing the nutrients in the cool deep ocean from rising to the surface.