Thermohaline circulation by AUSTIN LEE https://padlet.com/alee8898/btc7g08qobnn Scawy en-us 2019-04-11 14:21:50 UTC 2026-01-31 23:02:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://imgglb.padletcdn.com/v13/image?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f975.png Global Climate Changes Means Colder too!? alee8898 https://padlet.com/alee8898/btc7g08qobnn/wish/350790854 Studies suggest the shutdown of the thermohaline circulation would mean much colder winters and hotter summers in Europe, changing rainfall patterns in the tropics, and warmer water building up along the U.S. coast that can fuel sea level rise and destructive storms. The changes in the North Atlantic could also intensify streams of icebergs into shipping lanes and coastal ice jams that hinder navigation. There are already signs that the weakening is having an effect. In 2015, scientists traced the imminent collapse of the commercially important cod fishery in the region to rapidly warming water in the Gulf of Maine, which fits the pattern of slowing Atlantic circulation. Record-warm water off the East Coast that helped fuel 2011's destructive Hurricane Irene, as well as Superstorm Sandy a year later, appears to fit that pattern, as well, according to NASA.



]]> 2019-04-11 14:26:38 UTC https://padlet.com/alee8898/btc7g08qobnn/wish/350790854 Artic Sea Ice mleo2019 https://padlet.com/alee8898/btc7g08qobnn/wish/350793299 - With the melting of Artic sea ice, water is becoming less saline, and this disrupts the thermohaline circulation, which relies on the salinity and temperature of the seas.
- The EPA climate change indicators website states that, "since 1979, the length of the melt season for Artic ice has grown by 37 days. Artic ice starts melting 11 days earlier and refreezing 26 days later than it used to."
]]> 2019-04-11 14:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/alee8898/btc7g08qobnn/wish/350793299 Thermohaline Circulation mleo2019 https://padlet.com/alee8898/btc7g08qobnn/wish/351162241 - Thermohaline Circulation: Deep ocean currents driven by differences in water density. Density is controlled by water temperature and salt content (or salinity).
- Consequences of the halt of the thermohaline circulation being shut down include an increase in major floods and storms, a collapse of plankton populations, more severe El Nino events, and even oceanic anoxic events, which are when the stagnant deeper waters of the ocean run out of oxygen, which was a probable cause of past extinction events. Regional cooling would also occur.
- In a past thermohaline shutdown, Greenland cooled by about 44 degrees fahrenheight.  With the return of the thermohaline circulation, Greenland normalized.]]> 2019-04-12 14:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/alee8898/btc7g08qobnn/wish/351162241 Impacts of Thermohaline Circulation Shutting down: ktuttle8806 https://padlet.com/alee8898/btc7g08qobnn/wish/351171783 - This shutdown would carry a tremendous amount of heat northward, catastrophically affecting current climates.
- The warm water that goes to Europe from America would never get there, leading to Europe experiencing much colder temperatures. 
- The warm water in America would stagnate in America, leading to warmer temperatures on the American East coast. ]]> 2019-04-12 14:32:32 UTC https://padlet.com/alee8898/btc7g08qobnn/wish/351171783 Thermohaline Circulation image mleo2019 https://padlet.com/alee8898/btc7g08qobnn/wish/351173436 2019-04-12 14:36:24 UTC https://padlet.com/alee8898/btc7g08qobnn/wish/351173436 alee8898 https://padlet.com/alee8898/btc7g08qobnn/wish/351659228 2019-04-15 14:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/alee8898/btc7g08qobnn/wish/351659228