| That would dilute the salt content and could lead to the thermohaline circulation breaking down suddenly. |
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| The thermohaline circulation is driven by differences in seawater density, caused by temperature and salinity. |
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| The circulation driven by density differences is thus called the thermohaline circulation. |
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| The answers are blowing in the wind, but by 2010, the world's thermohaline circulation system may begin to collapse. |
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| A collapse of the thermohaline circulation is a low-probability, but high-impact event. |
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| From there it flowed to the North Atlantic to once again interrupt thermohaline circulation. |
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| The North Atlantic thermohaline circulation, which currently warms Europe by transporting heat from the tropics, weakens in the models. |
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| It explained that the influx of massive quantities of freshwater into the polar oceans could slow down, or even halt, the global thermohaline circulation. |
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| Well, the greatest and most mysterious ocean current is called the thermohaline circulation, or the Great Ocean Conveyor, which exchanges warm and cool water around the world. |
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| A collapse of the west Antarctic ice sheet might shut down the Atlantic thermohaline circulation, including the Gulf Stream, that warms western Europe. |
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| The physical pump operates by virtue of the thermohaline ocean circulation, a vast global heat exchanger. |
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| For example, if the thermohaline circulation slows down, there may be major changes in ocean circulation. |
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| Surface water, driven by thermohaline circulation and winds, transports heat from the tropics to the poles. |
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| That is, it is an important component of the thermohaline circulation and is thus directly linked to the dynamics of the earth's climate. |
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| From the thermohaline circulation pattern perspective the Mediterranean behaves like a small ocean. |
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| This slows the thermohaline circulation and reduces ocean heat transport to the region. |
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| If so, it could lead to the Earth's thermohaline circulation slowing, as has happened in the past and Wales could cool as a result. |
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| The thermohaline circulation is sometimes called the ocean conveyor belt, the great ocean conveyor, or the global conveyor belt. |
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| For example, alterations to ocean processes such as thermohaline circulation play a key role in redistributing heat in the world's oceans. |
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| This process, called thermohaline circulation, happens in just two regions of the Earth's polar areas. |
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| Another possibility is that there was a slowing of thermohaline circulation. |
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| There is some concern that a shutdown of thermohaline circulation could happen again as a result of the present warming period. |
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| In the early parts of this record, it does indicate, as noted in this diagram, a cooling due to a change in the north Atlantic thermohaline circulation in that region. |
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| A new study shows that in the Northern Hemisphere, the cooling effect of a sudden shutdown of the thermohaline circulation would outweigh the warming effect of increasing greenhouse gases for about 100 years. |
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| The thermohaline circulation affects the climate in the Norwegian Sea, and the regional climate can significantly deviate from average. |
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| Changes in the thermohaline circulation are thought to have significant impacts on the Earth's radiation budget. |
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| Their delivery of warm water from the Indian to the Atlantic Ocean can control the rate of thermohaline overturning of the entire Atlantic. |
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| Seasonal variation of the thermohaline structure in the Magdalena-Almejas Bay lagoon system and adjacent sea. |
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| Lawrence, to weaken ocean thermohaline circulation and have a frigid effect on global climate. |
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| Hence it is difficult in this case to subduct water through the thermohaline circulation. |
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| The likelihood of a Younger Dryas shutdown of the thermohaline circulation has also been argued to be unlikely by our 2006 Logan medallist. |
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| In a separate NatureNews article, Broecker indicates that these waters would ultimately have flowed into the North Atlantic where they would have disrupted the thermohaline circulation as originally proposed. |
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| The subpolar gyre forms an important part of the global thermohaline circulation. |
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| The movement of water due to differences in density as a function of water temperature and salinity is called thermohaline circulation. |
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| Changes in the thermohaline circulation are thought to have significant impacts on Earth's energy budget. |
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| For a discussion of the possibilities of changes to the thermohaline circulation under global warming, see shutdown of thermohaline circulation. |
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| It is often stated that the thermohaline circulation is the primary reason that the climate of Western Europe is so temperate. |
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| The Nordic Seas are the main connection between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans and, as such, could be of great significance in a possible shutdown of thermohaline circulation. |
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| For instance, warmer waters could be a normal part of the thermohaline circulation cycle, or a period of 20 to 30 years in which the Atlantic Ocean naturally warms and cools. |
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| Mixtures of cold, fresh water ice melt and the warm, salty Spitsbergen Current may experience cabbeling, and might contribute to thermohaline circulation. |
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| In Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, large temperature excursions were possibly related to changes in the strength of North Atlantic thermohaline circulation. |
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| In addition to the water cycle and churning atmosphere, LOOP features Earth's enigmatic yet powerful oceanic circulation system, the so-called thermohaline conveyor belt. |
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| However, because this thermohaline upwelling is so widespread and diffuse, its speeds are very slow even compared to the movement of the bottom water masses. |
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| Thermohaline circulation of the world's oceans involves the flow of warm surface waters from the southern hemisphere into the North Atlantic. |
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