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- Thermohaline circulation (THC) is a part of the large-scale ocean circulation that is driven by global density gradients created by surface heat and freshwater...
- ocean currents are driven by density and temperature gradients. This thermohaline circulation is also known as the ocean's conveyor belt. These currents...
- temperature and salinity. They collectively make up one half of the global thermohaline circulation that encomp****es the flow of major ocean currents. The other...
- theories link the magnitude of the Cir****polar Current with the global thermohaline circulation, particularly the properties of the North Atlantic. Alternatively...
- Thermohaline staircases are patterns that form in oceans and other bodies of salt water, characterised by step-like structures observed in vertical temperature...
- have been analyzed: It appears that the "conveyor belt" of the global thermohaline circulation appears only in presence of an open Drake P****age, subject...
- Changes in the thermohaline circulation are thought to have significant impacts on Earth's energy budget. Because the thermohaline circulation determines...
- as plate tectonics. Other climate determinants are more dynamic: the thermohaline circulation of the ocean leads to a 5 °C (41 °F) warming of the northern...
- are also important factors in determining climate, particularly the thermohaline circulation that distributes thermal energy from the equatorial oceans...
- evaporation. The high surface salinity in the Atlantic, on which the Atlantic thermohaline circulation is dependent, is maintained by two processes: the Agulhas...