So anytime a company really does something different, it's a nice change of pace, like Essential's bright blue
Ocean Depths model.
Not exact matches
Not a real one, of course, but rather a virtual voyager, a computer
model that plumbs the otherwise - inaccessible
depths of Earth's anoxic past (or an alien planet's present), exploring the possible chemistry of gases in the atmosphere and
ocean that could have occurred there.
Finally, all the climate
models assume different amounts of energy stored on Earth that is transferred to the
ocean depths, which act as an enormous heat sink.
Professor Dan Lunt, from the School of Geographical Sciences and Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol said: «Because climate
models are based on fundamental scientific processes, they are able not only to simulate the climate of the modern Earth, but can also be easily adapted to simulate any planet, real or imagined, so long as the underlying continental positions and heights, and
ocean depths are known.»
Or, to take the whole enterprise at face value, is she a perfect narrative muse of a lingerie
model who seductively chants Sigur Ros tunes to the
ocean's
depths as Colin Farrel is consigned to channeling profound sympathy with his eyebrows alone?
When the convective processes of the atmosphere remove enough water vapor from the
oceans to drop sea levels and build polar ice caps, as has happened many times before, the top 35 meters of the
oceans where climate
models assume the only thermal mixing occurs, must heat up cold
ocean water that comes from
depths below the original 35 meter depth, removing vast more amounts of heat from the earth's surface and atmosphere.
Models that don't have an accurate figure for this time constant are inevitably wrong, since they can not calculate the time taken for heat to travel from atmosphere to the
depths of the
oceans.
To produce this ensemble mean, the
model data were first interpolated to standard
ocean depths and atmospheric pressures.
Figure 13 - C
Model Forecasts and redistribution of heat in the
depths of the
ocean (in green are Levitus world - average observations above 700 m) in °C / decade Source: http://www.drroyspencer.com/2011/08/deep-
ocean-temperature-change-spaghetti-15-climate-models-versus-observations/
She and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts used the NASA GISS
ocean model and the MIT General Circulation Model to simulate one of the Atlantic's major current systems that delivers absorbed heat and gases to the de
model and the MIT General Circulation
Model to simulate one of the Atlantic's major current systems that delivers absorbed heat and gases to the de
Model to simulate one of the Atlantic's major current systems that delivers absorbed heat and gases to the
depths.
For the 2nd 4 - year
model run in Figure 3, the value of heat flow into the
ocean depths = 1.92 x 10 ^ 4 Joules / m ^ 2 per day — for both the solar increase and the equivalent DLR increase.
The amount of heat moving into the
ocean depths is much lower than convection and radiation out to the atmosphere (in this
model).
(«Inputs — outputs» includes the heat being transferred from the
model layers down into the
ocean depths below 100m).
«how it is supposed to work» = according to non-real-world theoretical
models that say CO2 molecules that are spaced together 1/20, 000 ths more closely today than they were in 1990 function just like a blanket draped over the
ocean waters, and this CO2 blanket determines the net heat changes in the
depths of the
ocean more so than variations in direct shortwave radiation absorption does.
The new study published as a Letter in Nature Geoscience shows that the warm intermediate Atlantic Layer was displaced far downward in the glacial Arctic
Ocean, resulting in a substantial warming at
depths between 1000 and 2500 m. Based on a conceptual oceanographic
model, the researchers propose a mechanism for the subsurface warming of the glacial Arctic
Ocean: A reduced influx of freshwater to the Arctic
Ocean acted to deepen the halocline and push the warm Atlantic Layer downward.