A warm core ring is a type of mesoscale eddy which forms and breaks off from an ocean current, such as the Gulf Stream or the Kuroshio Current. The ring is an independent circulatory system of warm water that can persist for several months before losing its distinctive identity.[1] Warm core rings can be detected using infrared satellites or sea height anomalies resulting from and are easily identifiable against the surrounding colder waters. In addition, warm core rings are also distinguished by their low levels of biological activity. This type of system is thought to have helped develop several hurricanes, most notably Hurricane Katrina, into significantly stronger storms due to the abundance of warmer ocean water reaching down to a significant depth,[2] which in turn fuels and intensifies the hurricane. Warm core rings are also known for affecting wildlife, having the capacity to bring wildlife from typically warm waters to areas typically dominated by cold waters.
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A warmcorering is a type of mesoscale eddy which forms and breaks off from an ocean current, such as the Gulf Stream or the Kuroshio Current. The ring...
that the water in the core of a ring has a different temperature regime than the shelf waters, there are times when a warm-corering is undergoing its spring...
dissipate into the larger background currents. These anticyclonic warmcorerings are estimated to have a transport of 3-9 Sv each, in total injecting...
several months and occur in most ocean basins. The separated rings can have both warm or cold cores and play a role in the thermohaline circulation, interocean...
in diameter with depths over 5 kilometers (3.1 mi). Cold corerings are the product of warm water currents wrapping around a colder water mass as it deviates...
Hurricane Opal most definitively illustrates the deepening abilities of a warmcorering. After crossing the Yucatán Peninsula, Opal reentered the Gulf of Mexico...
cold-corerings, which rotate cyclonically (counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere), and warm-corerings, which...
930, during a time believed to be warm enough for sailing and farming. By retrieval and isotope analysis of marine cores and from examination of mollusc...
time period from 12,000 years ago to the present. Tree rings and measurements from ice cores can give evidence about the global temperature from 1,000-2...
into the lower nutrient waters of the northeast Pacific Ocean. These "warm-corerings" transport heat out to sea, supplying nutrients (particularly nitrate...
of Hurricane Katrina. This protrusion detached into a warmcorering, or a small region of warm waters to an abnormally deep depth, and began to drift...
and ice cores. Around 1850 thermometer records began to provide global coverage. Between the 18th century and 1970 there was little net warming, as the...
(April 27, 1999). "The Interaction between Hurricane Opal (1995) and a WarmCoreRing in the Gulf of Mexico". Monthly Weather Review. 128 (5). Miami, Florida:...
Kawaguchi, Kouichi (2006-06-13). "Diel vertical migration of squid in the warmcorering and cold water masses in the transition region of the western North...
Hatcher (1991). The biogeochemistry of particulate lipids in warm-core Gulf Stream ring systems (Thesis). OCLC 82869924. "Conte CV" (PDF). Retrieved April...
Simmonds, I. (2010). "Interactions between Hurricane Catarina (2004) and warmcorerings in the South Atlantic Ocean". Journal of Geophysical Research. 115...
the Agulhas rings, mesoscale warmcorerings that are shed from the Agulhas Current south of the Agulhas Bank. In average, five such rings are shed each...
show that the F Ring consists of one corering and a spiral strand around it. They also show that when Prometheus encounters the ring at its apoapsis...
of this fuel available. A tropical cyclone is the generic term for a warm-cored, non-frontal synoptic-scale low-pressure system over tropical or subtropical...
wind Warmcorering – A type of mesoscale eddy which breaks off from a warm ocean current. The ring is an independent circulatory system of warm water...
25,000 km (16,000 mi). However, measurements of Saturn's rings suggest a much more diffuse core with a mass equal to about 17 Earths and a radius equal...
Kunze, E. (1986). The mean and near-inertial velocity fields in a warm-corering. Journal of physical oceanography, 16(8), 1444-1461. Talley, L. D. (2011)...
Consortium 2017. A high-resolution pollen analysis of a core from Galicia concluded in 2003 that the Roman Warm Period lasted from 250 BC to AD 450 in northwestern...
contribute to the shedding of an Agulhas ring. Agulhas rings are large anticyclonic eddies or warmcorerings of ocean water that are pinched off the Agulhas...
the Greenland Summit ice core chronology, the Younger Dryas corresponds to Greenland Stadial 1 (GS-1). The preceding Allerød warm period (interstadial) is...
height about 200,000 years ago. Several tephra layers encountered in ice cores at Mount Waesche and Byrd Station have been attributed to Mount Takahe,...
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