In between the two layers, there is a narrow zone called the thermocline where the temperature of the water changes rapidly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freshwater biomes] Reference

The thermocline is the layer of increasingly colder water that separates the warmer surface layer from the colder deep water.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

A blanket of water called the thermocline develops between the upper mixed layer above and the deep water below.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Get back to me after the oil hits the thermocline fan.    From Wordnik.com.  [leo-nard bern-stein] Reference

Just show the thermocline of the top 30 feet of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [New WSJ Article « Climate Audit] Reference

A sort of natural temperature barrier, or thermocline, develops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger MacBride]

Note how the position of the thermocline has changed from Figure 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Niño, La Niña and the southern oscillation] Reference

The thermocline water affects the subtropical Pacific ocean temperature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Gray Presentation « Climate Audit] Reference

There is a sharp thermocline between 9 and 30 m, depending on the season.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malpelo Island Flora and Fauna Sanctuary, Colombia] Reference

Lots of times the pH breakline and the thermocline are at the same point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caught Me a Big ’Un . . . and then I let him go!] Reference

The North-Atlantic thermocline effect on Europe must be going full blast….    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Misconduct « Climate Audit] Reference

And his went circling up into a thermocline on Saturday, and didn't come down.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

"Maybe she got detoured by a current at the thermocline," the speaker suggests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

So, in higher latitudes, the thermocline is seasonal, and does not occur in winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorenz et al 2006: "Tropical Cooling" « Climate Audit] Reference

A submarine's sonar had as much trouble penetrating the thermocline as a surface sonar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Storm Rising]

In this case all dipped above the thermocline layer to determine if the target was close.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Storm Rising]

Isolation and 20°C water below a thermocline at 30 m prevent further development of coral.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malpelo Island Flora and Fauna Sanctuary, Colombia] Reference

Located below the thermocline, where increase in depth correlates to decrease in temperature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terror At Dawn]

A hard thermocline layer at two hundred feet severely impeded the utility of a surface sonar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Storm Rising]

Recent advances in California Current modeling: decadal and interannual thermocline variations.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Current large marine ecosystem] Reference

The thermocline consists of water layers from where the temperature decreases sensibly with depth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unthreaded #16 « Climate Audit] Reference

The Seahawk carried over a thousand feet of cable, enough to reach below the deepest of thermocline layers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Storm Rising]

If you are fishing for kings, fish where the thermocline hits bottom because that is where the elewives will be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whats the best lure and depth for trolling in Lake Michigan right now?] Reference

If you look closely and use a bit of imagination, you can see ripples and waves traveling along the thermocline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Road Map #3 « Climate Audit] Reference

In El Nino years, the thermocline -- the depth where warm surface water meets cold deep water -- drops in the east.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searching For El Nino] Reference

A number of direct and indirect effects are likely to occur in shallow arctic lakes and ponds that lack a thermocline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impacts on aquatic birds and mammals in the Arctic] Reference

It is believed that a high zooplankton biomass depends on the cold waters of the Oyashio Current below the thermocline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oyashio Current large marine ecosystem] Reference

Summer's low oxygen levels in the depths confine fish to a relatively shallow depth range above, or within, the thermocline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clearing Up the Fall Turnover] Reference

Gravity waves affect the height of the thermocline and thus mixing, and can sometimes alter the flow of major warm currents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Road Map #3 « Climate Audit] Reference

A region of anomalously cool water associated with a wave along the thermocline is mixing upwards, cooling the surface waters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unthreaded #3 « Climate Audit] Reference

For more information on nutrient enrichment, upwelling, and the strong tropical thermocline off of Costa Rica, see Wyrtki, 1964.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pacific Central-American Coastal large marine ecosystem] Reference

Sea-ice cover, sea-surface salinity and halo/thermocline structure of the northwest North Atlantic: modern versus full glacial conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels] Reference

Surface temperatures were 61oF and the thermocline is developing between.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arizona Reporter Newswire] Reference

When we hit the thermocline on the way up, it was like suddenly entering a warm bath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exercise in Futility] Reference

Visibility was a clear 10-12 'and the water temperature was 86F and no thermocline really.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScubaBoard] Reference

During the summer of 2006, Blagdon reservoir (217Ha) was stratified with a stable thermocline.    From Wordnik.com.  [edie.net - Latest News] Reference