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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...
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    global thermohaline circulation that encompasses the flow of major ocean currents. The other half is the Southern Ocean overturning circulation. The AMOC...
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    of underwater robots in the 2000s. The thermohaline circulation is a part of the large-scale ocean circulation that is driven by global density gradients...
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    Antarctic overturning circulation) is the southern half of a global thermohaline circulation, which connects different water basins across the global ocean...
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    extent than the thermohaline circulation, is the formation of Antarctic Bottom Water (ABW) by halothermal dynamics. The halothermal circulation is that portion...
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    oceanic circulation and temperature distribution have been analyzed: It appears that the "conveyor belt" of the global thermohaline circulation appears...
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  • These two areas of brine rejection play an important role in the thermohaline circulation of all of Earth's oceans. As sea ice freezes, it rejects increasingly...
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    of the thermohaline circulation. Oceanic currents are largely driven by the surface wind stress; hence the large-scale atmospheric circulation is important...
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    The North Atlantic Current, in contrast, is largely driven by thermohaline circulation. Its carrying warm water northeast across the Atlantic makes Western...
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    link the magnitude of the Circumpolar Current with the global thermohaline circulation, particularly the properties of the North Atlantic. Alternatively...
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    oceans where these winds drive a two-gyre circulation. Physical characteristics like weak thermohaline circulation in the North Pacific and the fact that...
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    The high surface salinity in the Atlantic, on which the Atlantic thermohaline circulation is dependent, is maintained by two processes: the Agulhas Leakage/Rings...
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    such, could be of great significance in a possible shutdown of thermohaline circulation. In oceanography the Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas are often referred...
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    that circulation. The Southern Ocean overturning circulation is important because it makes up the second half of the global thermohaline circulation, with...
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    Changes in the thermohaline circulation are thought to have significant impacts on Earth's energy budget. Because the thermohaline circulation determines...
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    thermohaline circulation was proposed as an explanation for the LIA, specifically, through the weakening of the North Atlantic Gyre. The circulation could...
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    large Mediterranean Basin scale which includes the thermohaline circulation. The thermohaline circulation in the Strait of Sicily is anti-estuarine and is...
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    current flows through all the world's oceans and is known as the thermohaline circulation or global conveyor belt. This movement is slow and is driven by...
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  • and elevation), as well as on the large scale circulation patterns (such as the thermohaline circulation). Freshwater fluxes in general describe how freshwater...
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    affecting the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) which is part of the thermohaline circulation, possibly related to global warming-induced...
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  • transported within downward convected water masses such as the Thermohaline Circulation. Hydrothermal vents also deliver heat and chemicals such as sulfide...
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  • Overturning Circulation Abrupt climate change Oceans portal Aken, Hendrik M. van. (12 March 2007). The Oceanic Thermohaline Circulation An Introduction...
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  • magmatic event of the last 150 million years. In the oceans, the thermohaline circulation probably was much different from what it is today, with downwellings...
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    Changes in ocean circulation such as: Increasing frequency of El NiƱo events Potential disruption to the thermohaline circulation, such as that which...
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  • supergyre of the Southern Hemisphere and an important part of the thermohaline circulation. The source of the water of the Tasman Outflow is the East Australian...
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    the poles weakens both the Atlantic and the Antarctic limb of thermohaline circulation, which further changes the distribution of heat and precipitation...
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    energy in the ocean and atmosphere, for instance, changes in the thermohaline circulation. Climatic changes due to internal variability sometimes occur in...
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    reduced circulation is the production of stratified oceans. In such cases, it is more difficult to subduct water through the thermohaline circulation. Not...
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    politics. The thermohaline circulation can occur from the deep oceans to the ocean's surface. But the waters can mix; the thermohaline circulation from surface...
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    There is a continuous circulation of water in the oceans. Thermohaline circulation (THC) is part of the large-scale ocean circulation. It is driven by global...
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