thermocline

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* A thermocline is an abrupt transition to colder water.

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  1. noun A layer in a large body of water, such as a lake, that sharply separates regions differing in temperature, so that the temperature gradient across the layer is abrupt.

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  • During the summer of 2006, Blagdon reservoir (217Ha) was stratified with a stable thermocline. —  edie.net - Latest News
  • The 5 AQUAERATOR units mixed the entire water column, easily breaking the thermocline and increasing the DO from 5\% to 60\% within 5 days. —  edie.net - Latest News
  • #1: Global warming does not mean that the whole world gets hot and burns up, what it does mean is that there are possibly (because we do not know) irreversible changes in the weather patterns through out the world, including the oceanic thermocline system —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • * A thermocline is an abrupt transition to colder water. —  RVABlogs
  • The size of the latter three fluxes increases with diapycnal diffusivity, because the thickness of the thermocline also increases with diapycnal diffusivity leading to greater isopycnal slopes at high latitudes, and hence, enhanced isopycnal diffusion and GM advection. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. Gr.θέρμη, heat, + κλίνειν incline.
 

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/ˈθərməklaɪn/
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