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Almost always warmer at the surface.
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What is the boundary between the warmer surface water and colder ocean water called?
Thermal Layer
What is a movement of ocean water that forms far below the surface of the ocean called?
The water that forms far below the surface is called a Deep Current.
What is the boundary between the warmer surface water and colder deep ocean water called?
Thermal Layer
The replacement of warmer surface water by colder waters from below is referred to as?
Rechanging
Colder air moving over significantly warmer ocean surface water may produce?
Fog may form as much colder air moves over warmer ocean surface water. As the ocean evaporates into the colder air, it saturates the air producing fog that looks like streamers rising off the water.
What is the temperature in the ocean at Antarctica?
Ocean water off the Antarctic coast is between 32F degrees and about 27F degrees, based on the salinity of the water. It's always warmer in the ocean water than it is above the surface of the water.
Streamlike movements of water at or near the surface of the ocean are called?
Stream like movements of water that occur near the surface of the ocean are called surface currents. Stream like movements of ocean water far below the surface are known as a deep current.
A streamlike movement of ocean water far below the surface?
Deep currents are streamlike movements of water that flow very slowly along the ocean floor. Deep currents occur when the cold, dense water from the poles sinks below warmer, less sense ocean water and flows towards the equator.
What is meant by thermal expansion of the ocean?
It probably means that if the ocean water gets warmer, it will expand slightly.It probably means that if the ocean water gets warmer, it will expand slightly.It probably means that if the ocean water gets warmer, it will expand slightly.It probably means that if the ocean water gets warmer, it will expand slightly.
What is The rising of cold water from deeper layers to replace warmer surface warmer surface water?
upwhelling
What is ocean warming?
When the light from the sun touches the surface of the water in oceans, the water absorbers the heat in the rays from the sun. Due to ice melting their is more water and it traps more heat inside the water making the oceans warmer and warmer.
Is the temperature below the surface the same in all oceans?
no. Ocean temperature is not uniform with depth or surface coordinates. Tom Clancy's novel, Hunt for the Red October, describes the phenomenon of thermocline; the novel is a great read too. The ocean surface that is facing the sun in the Tropics is a lot warmer than the surface in the Antarctica. The water temperature near a undersea volcano vent is the hottest of all.
