Sentences with phrase «joules accumulating»

So like an obsessive accountant, Trenberth pores over the energy budget, tallying up the joules accumulating in various parts of the climate.

Not exact matches

A global energy imbalance of 0.9 W / m2 means the planet is accumulating 145 x 1020 joules per year.

The general argument however is being discussed by rasmus in the context of planetary energy balance: the impact of additional CO2 is to reduce the outgoing longwave radiation term and force the system to accumulate excess energy; the imbalance is currently on the order of 1.45 * (10 ^ 22) Joules / year over the globe, and the temperature must rise allowing the outgoing radiation term to increase until it once again matches the absorbed incoming stellar flux.

The oceans will catch up eventually, all the while accumulating joules.

If all Joules contribute equally, then each of the 240 W / m ^ 2 of accumulated forcing must also contributes 4.3 W / m ^ 2 to surface emissions adding up to over 1000 W / m ^ 2 corresponding to an average surface temperature close to the boiling point of water.

Given that all Joules are equivalent and all 240 W / m ^ 2 of accumulated forcing from the Sun must on average contribute equally to the emissions of the surface, each W / m ^ 2 contributes about 1.6 W / m ^ 2 to the surface emissions where the next 1.6 W / m ^ 2 of emissions from another W / m ^ 2 of forcing would arise from a surface temperature increase from 288K to 288.3 K.

Here are some figures from the March 2009 copenhagen Conference Synthesis report on energy accumulated between 1961 & 2003, all in 10 ^ 22 Joules