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Oceanography: Slowing Nature's Sea Pump
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One of the oceans' natural pumps - it made cold water near
Greenland sink to the depths and pulled warmer water north -
suddenly and mysteriously switched off in the 1980s, according to
scientists at Columbia University.
Under normal conditions, cold and salty (and therefore heavy)
water at the surface of the Greenland Sea sinks. The surface waters
are replaced by warmer, less salty surface water flowing from the
south.
This natural pump is part of a larger, more complex "conveyer
belt" that has warmed Europe and the British Isles.
By tracking radioactive tritium in the water, Peter ...
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