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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / August 20071 of deep ocean's most turbulent areas has big impact on climate
FSU study in Nature says newfound turbulence in undersea mountains affects ocean circulation. http://www.evolutionarycommunism.com/news/n111.html More than a mile beneath the Atlantic's surface, roughly halfway between New York and Portugal, seawater rushing through the narrow gullies of an underwater mountain range much as winds gust between a city's tall buildings is generating one of the most turbulent areas ever observed in the deep ocean. This post, and web address looked a little fishy to me, so I googled the information, and found a bunch of web sites with this story. The new story says: "turbulence levels as large as one-10th watt per cubic meter" One-10th watt ?? that would be 1/10 watt right? that's nothing. That would be the equivalent of 1 100 watt powerhead every 1,000 cubic meters. That's not much water movement. That makes no sense at all. Maybe I'm missing something. Wayne Sallee Webmaster@LeesburgNazarene.org nicholaschapman.fr@gmail.com wrote on 8/11/2007 11:23 AM: > FSU study in Nature says newfound turbulence in undersea mountains > affects ocean circulation. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > city's tall buildings is generating one of the most turbulent areas > ever observed in the deep ocean.  SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > The new story says: > "turbulence levels as large as one-10th watt per cubic meter" > > One-10th watt ?? that would be 1/10 watt right? that's nothing. In addition to that, the article makes no claim that this "turbulence" is increasing or decreasing. If it's been doing this for thousands of years and keeps it up, we're in good shape. George Patterson If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess to anything. |
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