MEANING
1. The upward movement of deeper water toward the surface, often bringing colder, nutrient-rich water into upper layers.
2. A rising or outward emergence of something, including a feeling or impulse.
Use it for
explaining nutrient supply near the sea surface; describing cold deep water rising; discussing coastal productivity and ocean circulationNames water rising from depth and distinguishes this process from horizontal currents. Writing functions: Vertical ocean circulation.
Words that belong together
- coastal upwelling
- nutrient-rich upwelling
- seasonal upwelling
On the page
The survey traced the cold coastal water to seasonal upwelling.
Upwelling supplied nutrients to the sunlit layer above.
An upwelling of relief left him briefly unable to speak.
She felt an upwelling of anger at the empty promises.
Word forms
- Base
- upwelling
Usage notes
Normally mass noun; upwellings for separate events or systems. Lexicalized process noun here, not a separately counted participle of upwell. Register: technical. Commonness: moderately common in marine science (dictionary-informed qualitative editorial estimate; not a measured frequency).
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