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Definition of Thermohaline
1. Adjective. of, or relating to a combination of temperature and salinity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thermohaline
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thermohaline
Literary usage of Thermohaline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Turning Up the Heat: How Global Warming Threatens Life in the Sea by Amy Mathews-Amos, Dwann A. Berntson (1999)
"Second, thermohaline circulation acts to redistribute heat from the equators ...
Because thermohaline circulation is driven by density differences of water ..."
2. Our Changing Planet: The FY 1999 U. S. Global Change Research Program by Rick Piltz (1999)
"This salinity plays an important role in determining the intensity of the deep
ocean thermohaline circulation that brings substantial amounts of heat to the ..."
3. Preparing for Climate Change: Proceedings, Second North American Conference (1993)
"The thermohaline component of ocean circulation (ie, that component driven by
global temperature and salinity differences rather than directly by wind) is ..."
4. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Pacific Climate (PACLIM) Workshop edited by Caroline M. Isaacs, Vera L. Tharp (1995)
"Stability and variability of the thermohaline _ circulation. J. Phys. Oceanogr.
... thermohaline effects in the ocean circulation and related simple models. ..."
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