thermocline
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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thermocline, a zone of sharp temperature change in the water, across which there is a sufficient increase in the density of the water to inhibit mixing between the water mass above and below it. Seasonal thermoclines occur year-round within a 100 metres (325 ft) or so of the surface in the tropics and develop in late spring as the surface ocean warms up at temperate
latitudes (>40°) and then get eroded in autumn as the weather cools down. There is a permanent thermocline in deeper water that divides the warm upper ocean from the colder deep water. Along the polar
fronts, such as the
Antarctic Convergence, the permanent thermoclines outcrop at the surface and mark the equatorward boundary of the polar oceans. For illus. see
el niño.
M. V. Angel
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