How to Use upwelling in a Sentence

upwelling

noun
Definition of upwellingnext
Synonyms for upwellingnext
  • 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
  • In the Middle Holocene, modern conditions started to develop: coastal fog and coastal redwoods increased, as did coastal upwelling and ocean productivity, Palmer said.
    — Claire Hao, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2023

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'upwelling.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: