Sentence examples for downwelling from inspiring English sources

Conversely, downwelling forces water into the water column below the Ekman layer, inducing drift toward the Equator.

The primary downwelling regions are in the subtropical ocean waters e.g., the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic.

A region of convergence forces surface water downward in a process called downwelling, while a region of divergence draws water from below into the surface Ekman layer in a process known as upwelling.

An additional consequence of upwelling and downwelling for stratified waters is to create a baroclinic field of mass (that is, a volume whose horizontal pressure gradient varies with depth due to horizontal variations in temperature and salinity).

Upwelling and downwelling also occur where the wind blows parallel to a coastline.