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How do temperature and salinity drive ocean current convection and what is the type of ocean current called?
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Temperature and salinity drive ocean circulation by altering seawater density. Warm, fresh water is significantly less dense than cold salty water and will therefore rise to the top in the ocean. Any process that alters temperature or salinity (such as rain, sea ice formation or seasonal variation) will change the density of the water and allow it to move in the water column, causing circulation of water on a global scale. This is known as thermohaline circulation. Because things such as rainfall and temperature tend to be relatively constant in a given area over a long period of time, a set current of water known as the global conveyor belt has arisen. It plays an incredibly important role in heat transfer over the earth.
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What are circulating currents in a fluid called?
If it is a result of temperature differences, it is called convection.
What is the flow of air in a loop caused by differences in temperature and pressure called?
It's called wind.
What ishot gas or liquid circulating is called?
It could be a convection current.
Which type of heat transfer sets up currents in fluids?
The current in the fluid is the result of a difference in temperature at different depths.It's called convection, and it does the transferring of heat from the bottom to the topof the fluid.What sets up the convection currents is whatever it was that added heat to thebottom of it. That could have been conduction, radiation, or a chemical process.
Type of current that creates warmer climates along a coastal area?
The type of current that creates warmer climates along coastal areas is called (Warm-Water)
The method of heat transfer by vertical motion is called?
convection current
A circular flow of warmer fluid and cooler fluid is called a?
A convection current, however, this can also occur with gases.
What are circulating currents in a fluid called?
If it is a result of temperature differences, it is called convection.
Does the flow that transfer heat within a fluid is called convection current?
Not unless the fluid is flowing due to temperature/density differences.
What is the magma cycle called?
a convection current
What is the flow of air in a loop caused by differences in temperature and pressure called?
It's called wind.
What is a current caused by the rising of heated fluid and sinking of cooled fluid called?
The current is called a convection current.
What is it called when air flows in loop?
convection current
Thermal energy transferred by circulation of liquid or gas is called?
convection current
Is the transfer of temperature from one substance to another called convection?
No, that is called conduction.
What transfer of energy by movement of fluids or gases with different temperatures is called?
pressure increase causes temperature increase temperature increase causes pressure increase when volume is constant that's Boyle's law if the temperature increases the speed of the molecules increase and the number of collisions increases . different slant on the same thing i guess. Brown usually Brownian motion.
Current in earths mantle that transfers heat in earths interior?
It's called the convection current.
