Some 97.5 percent of the Earth's water is salty, and most of the rest is freshwater that is spread out in hard-to-reach places like ice caps or deep aquifers or is only available one month each year (for example, during the monsoon season). As...
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? C A. What results ocean acidification ...
(脱盐)the ocean water in the largely coastal state. Some desalination plants exist where feasible, but they are costly to run and can need constant repairs. Wells are much more reliable sources of freshwater, and California is hoping that these deep wells may be the answer to their severe ...
The ocean circulation is forced at large scales by boundary fluxes of momentum, heat and freshwater as well as by the astronomical tidal potential. The variability of these forcings provide energy to the ocean, whose motions span a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Yet, climate equilib...
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 ...
“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 ...
Freshwater refers to waters that are not derivative of sea or ocean water, which contain some sort of salt. It's, essentially, naturally occurring water, water deriving from precipitation. Freshwater is drinkable water, unlike the salted waters of the world's seas and oceans....
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...