Wykład 5: Balance of NADW (25) • Gulf Stream = 15 Sv, S = 35. 88 ppm • Bering Straits = 1 Sv, S = 32. 00 ppm • excess of rainfall and continental runoff over evaporation = 0. 3 Sv Balance of NADW = 16. 35 Sv S = 34. 91 ppm
Wykład 5: Thermohaline circulation breakdown (simulation) (26) • let an excess of rainfall and continental runoff over evaporation = 0. 45 Sv, • then water salinity drops to • S = 34. 59 ppm • to compensate this drop, deep water should to be cooled by 1. 4 o C and to restore a salt balance, a circulation has to double its flow !!!