Sentence examples for layer of the ocean from inspiring English sources
Photic zone, surface layer of the ocean that receives sunlight.
Marra, J. & Barber, R. T. Phytoplankton and heterotrophic respiration in the surface layer of the ocean.
Hurricanes draw their energy from warm waters in the top layer of the ocean.
Marine snails – pteropods – live in this top layer of the ocean," she said.
My group will study how the top layer of the ocean interacts with the bottom layer of the atmosphere.
The surface mixed layer of the ocean is a huge reservoir of heat when compared with the overlying atmosphere.
The surface layer of the oceans is continuously being stirred by the overlying winds and waves, and thus a surface mixed layer is formed that has vertically uniform properties in temperature and salinity.
Together, these tiny, single-cell life forms that drift on the upper layer of the oceans produce half our oxygen, act as carbon sinks, influence our weather and serve as the base of the ocean food web.
We therefore predict that psbA will have a greater impact on phage genome replication under this switch to a higher level of irradiance, such as could occur in the surface mixed layer of the oceans.
The dynamics of the upper layer of the oceans is intimately tied to the lower layers of the atmosphere; the wind notably plays a driving role in the genesis and evolution of superficial and subsurface oceanic currents.
Phytoplankton blooms are ephemeral events of exceptionally high primary productivity thriving seasonally in the sunlit layer of the oceans, while driving mass transfer of gases and elements between the water layer, the atmosphere and oceans-floor and composing the basis of marine food-webs.
