Thermocline

In between the two layers, there is a narrow zone called the thermocline where the temperature of the water changes rapidly. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The thin yellow line is probably the thermocline, which is the place where the warm water and cold water meet. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The ocean is not really one ocean, but two -- a top and bottom layer, with a boundary layer approximately one kilometer below the ocean surface, called the thermocline, through which very little vertical transport takes place. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The thermocline was a tricky bitch, one that worked both for you and against you, Pencehaven reflected. ❋ Douglass, Keith (2000)

Coccolithophore blooms often develop during the summer when a blanket of water called the thermocline develops between the upper mixed layer above and the deep water below. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The thermocline is the layer of increasingly colder water that separates the warmer surface layer from the colder deep water. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When deployed in the open ocean, the tube would hang vertically, descending through the warm, well-mixed upper reaches of the ocean and terminating in a deeper part of the water column known as the thermocline, where water temperatures drop precipitously. ❋ Unknown (2009)

a blanket of water called the thermocline develops between the upper mixed layer above and the deep water below. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A very likely answer is that there is a thermocline, a layering effect where the upper, changeable parts of a body of water separate out from the deeper, colder, temperature-stable areas; these remain undisturbed for long periods of time. ❋ Heather McDougal (2009)

If you are fishing for kings, fish where the thermocline hits bottom because that is where the elewives will be. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Summer they run a little deeper and larger bait or live bait. fall they hang around the thermocline depends on the lake how deep it is usually between 10 and 20 ft. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In most summer trout and salmon fishing, your sonar will show larger fish and schools of baitfish at or near the thermocline, that narrow band 30 to 70 feet deep where water temperatures drop radically. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some models predict a deeper thermocline (lower respiration) as a result of global warming; others suggest the opposite (13). ❋ Sou (2010)

Energy exchange with the deep ocean below the thermocline and the solid earth even a few meters below the surface are too slow to matter. ❋ EliRabett (2010)

Also, while this phenomenon will increase reported global warming incidence, it may in fact overstate the true earth warming impact, since a proper energy balance analysis may show the surface temperature alteration is simply a thermocline distortion, not a real net increase in effective added heat content to the lithosphere. ❋ Unknown (2009)