Long Story Shorts: What is Ocean Stratification?

The ocean has layers that mix-sometimes. What are the layers made of? And why is it bad news when they don’t?
Hey, teachers! Here’s a cheat sheet of what’s included in this episode of Long Story Shorts:
• Water density and how it's impacted by temperature and salinity
• Mixing between ocean layers: how and when it happens
• As global temperatures rise, the ocean layers are becoming more stable
• More stable layers are problematic: effects on nutrient circulation and weather
This episode is part of our series Long Story Shorts-fun, quick explainers about all things coastal science!
Created by the Hakai Institute
Produced by Kristina Blanchflower and Josh Silberg
Animations by Kristina Blanchflower
Illustrations by Mercedes Minck
Stock images by Shutterstock

[@woodmansecurity5902]

Thanks Hakai . Understood the concept in 2 mins. Great Animation!!!

[@kaushallagrawal6684]

Crisp and simple thank you for this explanation

[@sagarsrivastav8076]

gr8 explaination

[@nicolepumarada3019]

Love the image to show difference in salinity. Thanks for making that easier to remember!

[@nibiruresearch]

In every layer of the earth we find sediment from an alien dust cloud. Also in the youngest layer, which is less than 6000 years old, we find sediment that is perhaps more than a billion years old. This dust cloud originates from the collision of our planet with another planet, planet 9. That planet crosses the ecliptic plane of the other planets every few thousand years. Just before the beginning of our era, that planet was seen, depicted on coins and remnants of that dust cloud were found in the ice sheet of Greenland.

[@whatabouttheearth]

What rubbish. Study real science. The only major impact that there is evidence that the earth has been through is with Theia, and Theia exploded, part remained on earth, part was flung out of the gravitational pull of our solar system and the rest became our moon.
Study real science instead of psuedoscience Nibiru bullshit and it will all make a lot more sense.

[@tmada8270]

was going to be nice without climate bs

[@whatabouttheearth]

"climate bs"? Really?
Explain the Suess Effect
Maybe those like you that are uneducated about a subject should stop running your mouth and buying into oil money propaganda