How to Use upwelling in a Sentence

upwelling

noun

• The birds then dip their bills into the upwelling and feed at high speed.
  — Erica Tennenhouse, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2020
• Within minutes, the force of the upwelling cleared the pool and stasis returned.
  — Paul Voosen, Science Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
• But that upwelling was delayed in the mid-2000s, leaving the salmon with little food.
  — Catrin Einhorn Max Whittaker, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• The weather has also brought upwelling, when frigid water from the depths is pulled to the surface.
  — Joel Umanzor, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
• It can be attributed both to the heat that the storm extracted as well as the upwelling of cold water from the depths.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2017
• The start of the hypoxia season is marked by the upwelling of cold bottom water.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 26 July 2021
• The low winds reduced the upwelling of cooler, nutrient rich waters at the ocean depths to the surface.
  — Will Houston, The Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2019
• What saves salmon is an upwelling of nutrient-rich, cold water along the coast.
  — Catrin Einhorn Max Whittaker, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• As the world warms, Dr. Russell and others say, the unceasing winds that drive the upwelling are getting stronger.
  — New York Times, 13 Dec. 2021
• There’s some deep-water upwelling that happens in that area.
  — Sammy Roth Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2020
• The ocean has a huge influx of nutrients in the spring from ocean upwelling, so any seeding from the ash didn’t have as great an impact.
  — Jenessa Duncombe, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2020
• And the brief upwelling of national unity — or calls for it — faded.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021
• They have been met with an upwelling of support and an outpouring of anti-Semitism.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2021
• But with less of that upwelling, the waters in the Caribbean and around Florida have been heating like a pot on slow boil.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023
• Such upwellings typically reach the surface for just a day or two.
  — Paul Voosen, Science Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
• But, due to forecasted coastal winds, the upwelling is likely to subdue in the autumn, allowing the heat wave to settle in.
  — Fox News, 6 Sep. 2019
• In very cold places, the birds appear at openings in ice caused by water upwelling, and dippers can dive through one hole in the ice and emerge from another one.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2018
• But during an El Niño, the upwelling is suppressed, causing fish to perish or migrate.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
• The water temperature was 54 degrees and rich with plankton from months of north winds and upwelling.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 8 July 2018
• The strong upwelling near the Farallon Islands are what make the area so productive as a bird breeding haven, Warzybok said.
  — Will Houston, The Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2019
• In the thermal-only view, plate tectonics are the true movers and shakers of the world, dictating where upwelling happens.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Jan. 2020
• The heat wave will drive people to the coast, where sea surface temperatures have been cooler than normal due to coastal upwelling.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2020
• In the eastern Pacific, near South America, the action of these winds causes upwelling of cool water from the deep.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• But with weaker trade winds, there's less upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich water.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2022
• As whales evolved along these two paths, a process called oceanic upwelling was intensifying in the waters around them.
  — Jeremy Goldbogen, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2019
• With less upwelling, the algae blooms that normally feed other prey species like krill and plankton were lacking, which in turn affects the food web.
  — Will Houston, The Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2019
• One anomaly this spring is the cold water off the Bay Area coast — as cold as 50 degrees — which is a product of both La Niña and upwelling set off by winds out of the northwest, skippers say.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2021
• The algae, which grow during the spring and fall when the upwelling of water results in nutrients from deeper water rising to the surface, builds up in the food chain.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
• So, researchers think that its subduction process is triggered by a bout of volcanic upwelling followed by a longer-lasting sagging.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
• This is not exactly an upwelling of compassion, and even so Carlson rushes to qualify it.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 3 May 2023

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024