Definition of pycnocline in English:
pycnocline
nounˈpɪknə(ʊ)klʌɪnˈpiknəˌklīn
Geography A layer in an ocean or other body of water in which water density increases rapidly with depth.
Example sentencesExamples
- Saline and warm Mediterranean water flowing through the Bosporus Strait maintains a permanent pycnocline.
- Specifically, more oceanographic research in Hudson Bay, particularly documenting pycnocline development, is needed.
- The polar regions are the only places where deep waters are ever exposed to the atmosphere because the pycnocline is not always present.
- Bezys and Risk suggested that the black shales and mudstone facies were the results of a stratified water column with a pycnocline.
- Deployments of the HRS and measurements of microscale turbulence were made simultaneously in the mixed surface layer, the pycnocline, and the DCM.
Origin
1950s: from Greek puknos 'thick' + cline.