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
  • What saves salmon is an upwelling of nutrient-rich, cold water along the coast.
    — Catrin Einhorn Max Whittaker, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Such upwellings typically reach the surface for just a day or two.
    — Paul Voosen, Science Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Within minutes, the force of the upwelling cleared the pool and stasis returned.
    — Paul Voosen, Science Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
  • And the brief upwelling of national unity — or calls for it — faded.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021
  • But with weaker trade winds, there's less upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich water.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Lots of fish near shallow structure despite cold water upwellings.
    — Mark Blythe, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 July 2018
  • They have been met with an upwelling of support and an outpouring of anti-Semitism.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2021
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Now, a process called upwelling is responsible for pushing the acid into the aquatic food chain.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The monsoon might also have shifted wind patterns that reduced upwelling of colder waters from the ocean floor.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2019
  • If the trade winds relax, the strength of upwelling is significantly reduced.
    — Jennifer Fitchett, Quartz Africa, 16 Feb. 2020
  • Typically, storms that run over the continental shelf cause an upwelling that works to weaken the storm.
    — Kimberly Miller, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Cold upwellings rise from the deep, bringing nutrients that fuel an explosion of life, much of it found nowhere else on Earth.
    — Tatjana Baleta, Time, 28 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 the thermal-only view, plate tectonics are the true movers and shakers of the world, dictating where upwelling happens.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • The upwelling of cold water resulted in the sea surface temperature cooling five degrees in the storm’s wake.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 13 June 2018
  • When upwelling is curtailed by winds or other factors, surface water temperatures can soar.
    — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025

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