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upwelling Definition

up·well·ing (upwel)

noun

an upward flow or current of water; esp., a rising, cold, nutrient-rich, coastal ocean current that attracts fish

upwelling Usage Examples

Object

  • water: The OMZ is created by the monsoon upwelling nutrient-rich water from greater depths which drives plankton growth, increasing productivity in the surface waters.

Converse of object

  • create: This creates a great upwelling of nutrients, which sustains the biodiversity of this region.
  • localize: Flushes are associated with lateral water movement, and springs with localized upwelling of water.

Adjective modifier

  • coastal: A high and late autumn peak of phytoplankton off the coast of Portugal may be associated with coastal upwelling.
  • equatorial: Trade winds and the equatorial upwelling maintain warm sea surface temperatures at the western equatorial Pacific and cold surface temperatures in the east.
  • tropical: The differences in the stratosphere between the runs were ascribed to a different tropopause structure in 49L and to greater tropical upwelling in 49L.
  • transient: Fine-scale transient upwelling ( from eddies, fronts and planetary waves ) provides the dominant supply of nitrate.
  • great: This creates a great upwelling of nutrients, which sustains the biodiversity of this region.
  • fine-scale: Fine-scale transient upwelling ( from eddies, fronts and planetary waves ) provides the dominant supply of nitrate.

Modifies a noun

  • region: The coastal upwelling regions are thus playing an essential role in the marine biogeochemical cycle of many elements.
  • system: A database of vertical distributions of chlorophyll in the upwelling system of Western Iberia were used for the analysis.
  • area: Identifying 3-D plankton from net hauls in the upwelling area near the West coast of Vancouver Is and BC's north coast.
  • water: The most magnificent of these submarine forests are found in the cool upwelling waters off the California coast.
  • process: There are also descriptions of inertial motion, geostrophic flow, the Ekman layer and the upwelling process.
  • current: In Chile we visited the coastal desert with its oases and its nutrient-rich upwelling sea currents.

Noun used with modifier

  • mantle: Aims To understand the Formation and Evolution of the Ocean Crust from mantle upwelling to subduction.

Preposition: of

  • water: It surfaced a few yards away with a huge upwelling of water.
  • nutrient: This creates a great upwelling of nutrients, which sustains the biodiversity of this region.

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