Atlantic Conveyor Belt System
The Great Ocean Conveyor, also called the thermohaline circulation, has great implications for climate. The conveyor is slow moving but over 30 million cubic meters of water enter the conveyor every second.
Surface water that is warmed at the equator moves to high latitudes where it releases heat to the atmosphere. As a result of this, the water cools and becomes denser and sinks to the bottom of the ocean. Most of the sinking happens in …
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…winter than other countries at the same latitude. Now it seems that not only is pollution and the greenhouse effect is helping escalate the problems with global warming and the thinning of the ozone it is also being linked to influencing the Oceans Conveyor Belt System.
Works Cited:
Atlantic Conveyor Belt. 2004. Planet Earth.
www.nerc.ac.uk/publication/documents/pe-spr04/atlantic.pdf
Suzuki, David. 2005. Abrupt Climate Change
www.davidsuzuli.org/Climate_Change/Science/Conveyor.asp
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