Sentences with phrase «water formation shuts»
This will be a surprise to many Arctic researchers who believe deep water formation shuts down during glaciations.»
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That lid of low - density water shut off the formation of deep water in the Atlantic.
For global warming scenarios, additional forcing comes into play: surface warming and enhanced high - latitude precipitation, which will also reduce density of northern surface waters (an effect which alone has shut down deep water formation in some model experiments, e.g. Manabe and Stouffer 1993, 1994).
Modelling uncertainty currently is such that in some climate models, this amount of freshwater (without any other forcing) would shut down deep water formation, in some it wouldn't.
A good way to estimate the effect of the thermohaline part of the heat transport is to shut it down by dumping a lot of freshwater into the north Atlantic in a climate model, which stops deep water formation there.
[Response: You're talking of cold events that are a response to massive freshwater influx to the Atlantic and a subsequent shut - down of deep water formation.
Thus it appears that disruption of deep water formation in the North Atlantic, via a blob of colder fresher water coming off of Greenland, would not «shut down» or even affect the Gulf Stream net mass transport at all, but instead would shift its northern return flow southwards, with many severe regional consequences.
The system can weaken or shut down entirely if the North Atlantic surface - water salinity somehow drops too low to allow the formation of deep - ocean water masses.
The influx could slow down or shut off the North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) formation, the driving factor behind the conveyor belt current known as thermohaline circulation, which brings large amounts of warm water to the North Atlantic reWater (NADW) formation, the driving factor behind the conveyor belt current known as thermohaline circulation, which brings large amounts of warm water to the North Atlantic rewater to the North Atlantic region.