Sentences with phrase «weaken under global warming»

Adding heat to the ocean, in contrast, slows down the overturning circulation because ocean currents depend on temperature gradients — moving from warmer locations to cooler locations — that weaken under global warming as cooler waters heat up.

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I also have a hard time understanding how the Gulf Stream — the western boundary current of the North Atlantic gyre — would weaken much under global warming, as it is driven by a physical process, gyre circulation, amplified by the presence of the coastline: http://oceanmotion.org/html/background/western-boundary-currents.htm