thermocline in English
noun
1
a steep temperature gradient in a body of water such as a lake, marked by a layer above and below which the water is at different temperatures.
Later investigations focused on the sea's thermal structure and determined that it is actually a huge body of warm water separated from the colder layers below by a pronounced thermocline - a zone of rapidly changing temperature.
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1. Thus, in these small lakes, water color significantly affected temperature, thermocline depth, and light climate.
2. Both Mysis and adult alewife concentrated on the bottom during day and migrated upwards to the base of the thermocline at night.