Sentences with phrase «water mass formation»

MOCHA array — provide a means to evaluate intergyre connectivity within the North Atlantic and allow for a determination of how and whether deep water mass formation impacts overturning and poleward heat and freshwater transports throughout the North Atlantic.

The relationships between the NAO and deep water production are discussed by R. Dickson, «Observations of DecCen climate variability in convection and water mass formation in the northern hemisphere,» in the CLIVAR Villefranche workshop summary at http://www.dkrz.de/clivar/villesum.html. More generally, see the Climate Research Committee, National Research Council, Natural Climate Variability on Decade - to - Century Time Scales (National Academy Press 1995).

Striking changes in salinity are found from the surface to the bottom in the northern North Atlantic near water mass formation sites that fill the water column (Section 5.3.2); bottom changes elsewhere are small, being most prevalent at the under - sampled southern ends of both sections.

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What they found, Hansen says, is that melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica could inject enough fresh water into the seas to slow the formation of two key water masses: the North Atlantic Deepwater and the Antarctic Bottom Water formatwater into the seas to slow the formation of two key water masses: the North Atlantic Deepwater and the Antarctic Bottom Water formatwater masses: the North Atlantic Deepwater and the Antarctic Bottom Water formatWater formations.

This new finding is important because it's one of the first exoplanets in this mass range that lies beyond the «snow line» — the distance during formation of a planetary system beyond which ice can form from water, ammonia, and methane.

The Heterodyne Instrument for the Far - Infrared (HIFI) on the Herschel Space Observatory observed three deeply embedded protostars in the low - mass star - for... ▽ More «Water In Star - forming regions with Herschel» (WISH) is a key programme dedicated to studying the role of water and related species during the star - formation process and constraining the physical and chemical properties of young stellar objWater In Star - forming regions with Herschel» (WISH) is a key programme dedicated to studying the role of water and related species during the star - formation process and constraining the physical and chemical properties of young stellar objwater and related species during the star - formation process and constraining the physical and chemical properties of young stellar objects.

Ice shelves are important, because they play a role in the stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and the ice sheet's mass balance, and are important for ocean stratification and bottom water formation; this helps drive the world's thermohaline circulation.

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.

Water mass - A volume of ocean water with identifiable properties (temperature, salinity, density, chemical tracers) resulting from its unique formation proWater mass - A volume of ocean water with identifiable properties (temperature, salinity, density, chemical tracers) resulting from its unique formation prowater with identifiable properties (temperature, salinity, density, chemical tracers) resulting from its unique formation process.

The extent of Bering Sea ice cover this year has so far exceeded that of the previous two years, he added, because the extraordinary and record - setting low sea - ice formation of the past two winters mainly were due to a couple of short - term factors: a strong El Nino and an unusually persistent warm - water mass in the north Pacific commonly called «The Blob.»

Surface freshwater plays an important role for ocean circulation by its influence on the formation of deep water masses.

This project will use an observational program to simultaneously identify the mechanisms responsible for water mass modification within the Terra Nova Bay polynya and document all aspects of dense shelf water formation within an Antarctic polynya system.

What they found, Hansen says, is that melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica could inject enough fresh water into the seas to slow the formation of two key water masses: the North Atlantic Deepwater and the Antarctic Bottom Water formatwater into the seas to slow the formation of two key water masses: the North Atlantic Deepwater and the Antarctic Bottom Water formatwater masses: the North Atlantic Deepwater and the Antarctic Bottom Water formatWater formations.