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upwell
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up·well  (p-wl)
intr.v. up·welled, up·well·ing, up·wells
To rise from a lower or inner source; well up: tears upwelling in my eyes.


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The fog is created by moist air flowing over the cold water that upwells in the ocean near the coast.
The deep ocean water, whose increased alkalinity is due to the dissolution of calcium carbonate, moves in such deep currents as the thermohaline driven circulation that runs south from the northern North Atlantic, proceeds as a bottom current through the Indian Ocean, and eventually upwells in the northern North Pacific (See Oceanus Vol.
We believe that the indicated seven million cubic meters per second eastward flow of the colder level upwells in the eastern tropical Atlantic to supply the indicated seven million cubic meters per second of westward flowing water on the warmer level of the cloverleaf.
 
 
 
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