Sentences with phrase «which warm shallow waters»

Arrays monitor circulating currents in the Atlantic Ocean, in which warm shallow waters move north (red), while cold deep waters move south (blue).

Temperatures varied more than 10 - degrees - Celsius over a single tidal cycle and became most extreme when the low tide period aligned with maximum heating by the sun at noon, which warmed the shallow water on the reefs.

Not exact matches

The AMOC currents include the Gulf Stream, which brings shallow warm waters north, nourishing fisheries and warming northwest Europe.

That leads them to suggest that the concentration of lumps may have come about when a large number of whales died and then sank to the sea floor, where the carcasses quickly decomposed in the warm, shallow waters but the ambergris — which on its own typically floats — was buried and preserved.

The AMOC's shallower limbs — which include the Gulf Stream — move warm water from the tropics northward, warming Western Europe.

With the help of waters warmed by climate change, the king crab, which has not set claw in the shallow Antarctic waters in 15 million years, may be returning.

That's a question also asked about coral, which usually forms reefs in warm, shallow waters near the equator.

Ocean warming, which is caused by climate change, is a serious threat to coral reefs, especially for coral reefs in shallower waters.

You can look for a cottage on the northern shores of Lake Superior (the world's largest lake, but unfortunately too cold for swimming), or you can look for a property on one of the numerous inland lakes in the area, which have warmer waters and shallower bays.

The gorgeous sandy coves have warm shallow waters which are perfect for paddling and swimming.

After breeding in the warmer waters, cow whales bring their calves into the shallow protected bays along which the Cockle Train steams.

They are probably best known for their extraordinary migration which takes them from the warm, shallow waters of the lagoons in the Baja California to the waters off Alaska.

Located on the quiet and tranquil north coast of the tiny island of Gili Trawangan is The Trawangan Oasis which is a beautiful little retreat which offer access directly to the viewed white sand beaches and lagoons which offer shallow warm water perfect for swimming as well as snorkeling enjoying some of the beast coral and marine life in the world.

''... worked with two sediment cores they extracted from the seabed of the eastern Norwegian Sea, developing a 1000 - year proxy temperature record «based on measurements of δ18O in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, a planktonic foraminifer that calcifies at relatively shallow depths within the Atlantic waters of the eastern Norwegian Sea during late summer,» which they compared with the temporal histories of various proxies of concomitant solar activity... This work revealed, as the seven scientists describe it, that «the lowest isotope values (highest temperatures) of the last millennium are seen ~ 1100 - 1300 A.D., during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and again after ~ 1950 A.D.» In between these two warm intervals, of course, were the colder temperatures of the Little Ice Age, when oscillatory thermal minima occurred at the times of the Dalton, Maunder, Sporer and Wolf solar minima, such that the δ18O proxy record of near - surface water temperature was found to be «robustly and near - synchronously correlated with various proxies of solar variability spanning the last millennium,» with decade - to century - scale temperature variability of 1 to 2 °C magnitude.»

A once - rich habitat in the Antarctic has become an impoverished zone as icebergs, increasingly breaking free from the surrounding sea ice because of global warming, scour the shallow - water rocks and boulders on which a diversity of creatures cling to life.

The pool of water in a warm - core ring can extend to a depth of 1500 m (4900 ft) so that they can not move onto continental shelves, which are shallow typically 200 m (650 ft) deep or less.

However, it must be borne in mind that the MOC can also include shallower, wind - driven overturning cells such as occur in the upper ocean in the tropics and subtropics, in which warm (light) waters moving poleward are transformed to slightly denser waters and subducted equatorward at deeper levels.

However, I note that the most intense storms this year have passed through the Gulf of Mexico, which is a warm, shallow body of water.

Potentially, these animals are good indicators of environmental change, because many live in shallow waters, which are changing quickly, but also in deep water, which will warm more slowly.