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Date "UPWELLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Weather | The vertical motion of water in the ocean by which subsurface water of lower temperature and greater density moves toward the surface of the ocean. Upwelling occurs most commonly among the western coastlines of continents, but may occur anywhere in the ocean. Upwelling results when winds blowing nearly parallel to a continental coastline transport the light surface water away from the coast. Subsurface water of greater density and lower temperature replaces the surface water, and exerts a considerable influence on the weather of coastal regions. Carbon dioxide is transferred to the atmosphere in regions of upwelling. This is especially important in the Pacific equatorial regions, where 1 - 2 GtC/year may be released to the atmosphere. Upwelling also results in increased ocean productivity by transporting nutrient-rich waters to the surface layer of the ocean. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Localized upwelling may be due to deflection of deep currents by a seamount providing a nutrient rich island in otherwise low productivity ocean areas. These provide islands of life in such areas and are important to migrating species and human fishing.
Upwellings also occur in other fluid environments, such as the magma in Earth's mantle or the plasma within a star. They are often a result of convection.
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Crosswords: UPWELLING |
| Specialty definitions using "UPWELLING": Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Normally an oceanographic phenomenon known as upwelling keeps the surface waters of the southeast Pacific Ocean cold and teeming with small pelagics that are fished by purse seiners. Upwelling occurs in this zone when southeasterly trade winds , produced by the South Pacific anti-cyclone, along with other facto rs drive coastal waters out to sea, forcing deep nutrient-rich waters to rise. Credit: Fisheries. |
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| "UPWELLING" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "UPWELLING" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 20.83% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
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| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "UPWELLING": upwelling-diffusion. | |
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| Language | Translations for "UPWELLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | feláramlás (up draft, updraft). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ellingupway | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "UPWELLING": upwellings. (additional references) | |
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"UPWELLING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: upselling, upweling, upwellimg. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-l-n-p-u-w" | |
-2 letters: pulling, welling. | |
-3 letters: ligule, lineup, lupine, pilule, plunge, puling, pungle, unpile, unwell, upwell. | |
-4 letters: genip, guile, ingle, lunge, lungi, lupin, unpeg. | |
-5 letters: genu, gien, gill, glen, glue, gull, gulp, iglu, lien, lieu, line, ling, lipe, luge, lune, lung, lwei, nill, null, pein, pile, pill, pine, ping, plew, plie, plug, pule, puli, pull, pung, well. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-l-n-p-u-w" | |
+1 letter: upswelling, upwellings. | |
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