Sentences with phrase «whole water column»

I did not suggest that the whole water column needed to reach a new temperature.

Claisse suggests rigs are havens for fish because of their huge surface area which, unlike in reefs, spans the whole water column.

Not exact matches

Funded by the National Science Foundation, Ridge 2000 is «an interdisciplinary initiative to study the Earth's oceanic spreading ridge system as an integrated whole, from its inception in the mantle to its manifestations in the biosphere and water column.»

The whole issue of the phytoplankton role in the carbon cycle is still poorly understood, and recent research indicates that most photosynthetically fixed carbon is simply recycled in the water column.

So, 500 m of ocean have around 200 times the heat capacity of the whole depth of the atmosphere (which weighs roughly the same as 10 m of water column, which is therefore equal to 1 bar or 1 atmosphere of pressure).