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    resulting in downwelling. Typical downwelling rates associated with ocean gyres are on the order of 10’s of meters per year. Coastal downwelling occurs when...
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  • Downwell is a 2015 vertically scrolling shooter video game with roguelike elements. It was developed by Ojiro Fumoto and published by Devolver Digital...
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  • current can induce secondary water flow in the form of upwelling and downwelling, geostrophic flow, and western boundary currents. Friction between wind...
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    versus the observed cross cutting relationships. In the downwelling model, mantle downwelling, possibly due to mantle convection, causes compression and...
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    silhouette of a small fish, while the rest of its body blends into the downwelling light via its ventral photophores. When a would-be predator approaches...
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    column, resulting in areas of downwelling. Ekman pumping has dramatic impacts on the surrounding environments. Downwelling, due to Ekman pumping, leads...
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    Indonesia from May to September (shown here, June). This may signify coastal downwelling in the summer. It is also observed that the region develops a weak but...
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    upwelling of air from the tropical troposphere and the extra-tropical downwelling of air. Stratospheric circulation is a predominantly wave-driven circulation...
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    in the summer and can persist all day on rare occasions. The seasonal downwelling on the other hand is most common in the winter and gives Nazaré a more...
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    stress curl that drives Ekman pumping in the subtropics (resulting in downwelling) and Ekman suction in subpolar regions (resulting in upwelling). Ekman...
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  • summer pole and downwelling at the winter pole. Air rising will expand and cool resulting in a cold summer mesopause and conversely downwelling air results...
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    the height. Using two downwelling inlets on both sides of the tank lets gravity create two gyres in the tank. A single downwelling inlet may be used in...
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    downwelling current in convergent zone, upwelling current in divergent zone, retention zone in LC vortex and region between upwelling and downwelling...
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    Winds and precipitation can both affect the Alaska Current. Winds are downwelling along the coastal area most of the year, which helps to keep the density...
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    movement of ocean currents is observed, this is known as upwelling and downwelling. An international program called Argo began researching deep ocean currents...
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  • of the North Atlantic and regions of Southern Ocean where downwelling occurs. This downwelling brings young, surface water with relatively low concentrations...
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    ISBN 978-0-521-84786-5. "Wind Driven Surface Currents: Upwelling and Downwelling Background". Ocean Motion and surface currents. NASA. Retrieved 22 January...
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    flocculate and increase the density of the drilling fluid to overcome high downwell gas pressures. Whenever a drill hits a salt formation, salt is added to...
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    exchange of heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients. Wind-driven upwelling and downwelling of open water can induce mixing of different layers through the stratification...
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    or 159 W/m2. Some emitted radiation is effectively cancelled out by downwelling radiation and so does not transfer heat. Evaporation and convection partially...
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    concentrations. Periodic depression of the thermocline and associated downwelling may also play an important role in the vertical transport of planktonic...
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  • strength. Cyclonic (Anticyclonic) eddies lead primarily to upwelling (downwelling). It is a key mechanism driving biological and biogeochemical processes...
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    currents send warm, oxygenated, nutrient-poor water into the deep ocean (downwelling), while the cold, oxygen-limited, nutrient-rich water travels upwards...
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    filters which may alter the wavelength of luminescence closer to that of downwelling moonlight and starlight; a lens with biochemical similarities to the...
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  • arcade-style game where the player continuously moves downwards. The teams cited Downwell as one of the game's earliest inspirations, and drew further influence...
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    overcome the visual complications of the pelagic zone (the combination of downwelling daylight, bioluminescence, and light scattering with increasing distance)...
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    Baumgardner, John, "Mantle Viscosity and the Thickness of the Convective Downwellings", igw.uni-jena.de, archived from the original on 2007-06-11 Xie, Hong-Yi;...
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    sites of atmospheric upwelling, whereas belts are manifestations of downwelling. When air enriched in ammonia rises in zones, it expands and cools, forming...
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    the Portuguese and Galician Atlantic coasts where, due to upwelling/downwelling phenomena average temperatures in summer can vary through as much as...
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  • phase transition to play an important role in geodynamical models. Cold downwelling material might pond on this transition. There is another major phase...
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