The ocean surface rapidly exchanges heat, freshwater, and gases with the atmosphere, but once water sinks into the ocean interior, the inherited properties of seawater are closely conserved. Previous water-mass
LakeBaikal(贝加尔湖)isthebiggestbodyoffreshwateronEarth.It'sabout1.6kmindepthandisalsothedeepest.Severalunusualanimalscallithome,includingtheworld'sonlyspeciesoffreshwaterseal.TherearealargenumberofBaikalseals,about8,000-10,000.Butthelakeisnutrient-poor,sohowtheydosowellhasbeenapuzzle.AstudyconductedbyYuuki...
“When you have se a ice melt you create a floating freshwater lake on the top of the ocean surface," says Cai. He expects that acidification will continue to increase as long as there is summer ice to melt.32. What is paragraph 2 mainly about? A. What results ocean acidification ...
A conveyor belt of ocean water that loops the planet and regulates global temperatures could be heading for a tipping point.
Polluted air and steadily rising temperatures are linked to health effects ranging from increased heart attacks and strokes to the spread of infectious diseases and psychological trauma.
Despite being surrounded by seemingly endless ocean, freshwater on Oahu, the third-largest of Hawaii's six major islands, is not easily accessible. The island relies on an underground aquifer for its water supply. Replenishing that aquifer is a decades-long natural process, as it takes a single...
“I'm excited because this research hasn't been done before and it's a unique experiment,"said Sarah Giddings, a coastal oceanographer leading the study. “The aim is to understand how freshwater interacts with waves, since it is usually warmer than ocean water and more buoyant (有浮力的)...
What is the phipose aMPlumed in Nearshore Conditions? A. To introduee the benefits of dyeing the ocean. B. To study how freshwater combines with seawater. C. To prove that freshwater is much warmer than seawater D. To examine the impact of freshwater on the occne sut zone29. Why is ...
Each run was initialized from the same initial state and forced with the same surface flux and freshwater runoff from the Japanese 55-year atmospheric reanalysis surface dataset, JRA55-do182. After initialization, each run was spun up for 5 years to a quasi-steady state, at which point the ...
The speed of the seawater, which moves considerable distances over a short time period, increases glacier melt because as soon as the ice melts, freshwater is washed out and replaced with warmer seawater, Rignot said. “This process of widespread, enormous seawater intrusion will increase the proj...