While the baroclinic systems are efficient in transporting heat, the enormous negative radiative forcing (Fig. 2) associated with these cloud systems seems to undo the poleward
transport of heat by the dynamics.
Simpson began with a gray - body calculation, Simpson (1928a); very soon after he reported that this paper was worthless, for the spectral variation must be taken into account, Simpson (1928b); 2 - dimensional model (mapping ten degree squares of latitude and longitude): Simpson (1929a); a pioneer in pointing to latitudinal
transport of heat by atmospheric eddies was Defant (1921); for other early energy budget climate models taking latitude into account, not covered here, see Kutzbach (1996), pp. 354 - 59.
2) The silver wire will transport heat from warmer region to the cooler region, but in so doing it short circuits
the transport of heat by convection.
The vertical
transport of heat by convection tends to minimize the magnitude of dθ / dz..
6 Climate is caused by many factors including: Trapping of heat by the atmosphere Latitude
Transport of heat by winds and ocean currents
Transport of heat by winds and ocean currents
Is less poleward
transport of heat by the Gulf Stream as the AMOC weakens a positive feedback for global warming, since that energy will escape more slowly in the humid (higher water vapor GHG effect) tropics than near the poles?
Changes to
the transport of heat by the Earth's atmosphere and oceans to the poles have also been suggested as a possible contributor to the steep rise in Arctic temperatures.
Not exact matches
LNG is liquefied natural gas (the same gas that you'd use in your home
heating system) chilled to -161 °C, which reduces its volume to 1 / 600th
of the volume
of gas, making it economically feasible to
transport over long distances
by ship.
Until now,
heat transport in nanostructured materials has largely been controlled
by introduction
of atomic - scale impurities, interfaces, surfaces and nanoparticles that reduce
heat flow
by scattering the phonons diffusely.
«As powerful as the cycle is, it is also surprisingly susceptible to environmental changes — and humankind is imposing massive perturbations on Amazonia
by both cutting down the trees and
heating up the air with greenhouse gases, which reduces large - scale moisture
transport and precipitation, and end up affecting even the untouched patches
of the forests.»
«We found that
heat transported by oceans would have a major impact on the temperature distribution across a planet, and would potentially allow a greater area
of a planet to be habitable.
One
of the most harmful phenomena these investigations have discovered is the drift instability, which leads to small - scale turbulence
of the plasma that efficiently
transports heat and particles
by convection to the outer regions, where they are lost and unable to contribute to nuclear fusion.
The
transport of heat in amorphous silicon is determined
by the behavior
of phonons in the material.
Using 19 climate models, a team
of researchers led
by Professor Minghua Zhang
of the School
of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University, discovered persistent dry and warm biases
of simulated climate over the region
of the Southern Great Plain in the central U.S. that was caused
by poor modeling
of atmospheric convective systems — the vertical
transport of heat and moisture in the atmosphere.
Transport by these deep - reaching eddies provides a mechanism for spreading the hydrothermal chemical and
heat flux into the deep - ocean interior and for dispersing propagules hundreds
of kilometers between isolated and ephemeral communities.
Innovative urban design could create increased access to active
transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions
of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision
of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban
heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits
by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303
«If Earth's core consisted only
of iron, the free electrons in the iron could handle the
heat transport by themselves, without the need for any convection currents,» says Karsten Held.
Resume: Progress in the last few decades in nano - scale thermal
transport has enabled a significant degree
of control over
heat and sound propagation
by lattice vibrations - phonons.
Progress in the last few decades in nano - scale thermal
transport has enabled a significant degree
of control over
heat and sound propagation
by lattice vibrations - phonons.
The team calculated the balance between tidal
heating and
heat transport by convection in the mantles
of each planet.
Something even the UVic model can more or less do is to demonstrate that you don't get anything remotely resembling the LGM in the tropics and SH unless you include the CO2 effect — though I suspect that the tropical results are very much contaminated
by inadequacies in the diffusive representation
of heat and moisture
transport.
For this purpose, we introduce a
heat function which identifies the contribution to the
heat transport by different components
of the oceanic circulation.
A few things are unequivocal, perhaps (doubling from the present concentration
of CO2 will take 140 years [give or take]; the idea that the changes in climate since 1880 have been in the aggregate beneficial; it takes more energy to vaporize a kg
of water than to raise its temperature
by 1K; ignoring the energy cost
of water and latent
heat transport [in the hydrologic cycle] leads to equilibrium calculations overestimating the climate sensitivity), but most are propositions that I think need more research, but can't be refuted on present evidence.
By analogy, a warmer world wouldn't be rainier (or cloudier); it's an imperfect analogy, because rain isn't absolutely correlated with cloudiness, and lateral transport of energy by ocean, air, and latent heat currents in and out of the E & W Pacific Ocean areas won't scale to global warmi
By analogy, a warmer world wouldn't be rainier (or cloudier); it's an imperfect analogy, because rain isn't absolutely correlated with cloudiness, and lateral
transport of energy
by ocean, air, and latent heat currents in and out of the E & W Pacific Ocean areas won't scale to global warmi
by ocean, air, and latent
heat currents in and out
of the E & W Pacific Ocean areas won't scale to global warming
Imagine a man or woman being so arrogant, and selfish, that they'd take a job driving a CO2 belching truck, or dig for coal in a mine, or fish for salmon in the ocean, or fly a CO2 belching airliner, or flip beef patties that came from CH4 exhausting cows, or teaching a classroom
of students all
of whom belch CO2 and exhaust CH4 and whom will have offspring that produces even more
of those evil gases, or working as a climate scientist in an office
heated by CO2 belching FFs and occasionally traveling around the world
by CO2 belching airliner — all the while using computers made from FFs and powered
by CO2 belching FF power plants, or working as a Senator from Tennessee who was President
of the USA for a few hours and who travels all over the world in CO2 belching airliners, or one
of the millions
of people who mine, process, manufacture and
transport every product you have ever seen in your life and all the ones you haven't seen as well.
It is still popular nomenclature in physical oceanography and atmospheric dynamics to refer to the bodily
transport of energy
by a fluid as «
heat transport.»
As stated above, the wind - driven component is unlikely to change much, and so while the shallow, wind - driven circulations may actually
transport more
heat (and
of course the atmosphere transfers even more), the variability in the
heat transport can still be dominated
by the variability in the overturning.
Is it not possible that the polar barometric events act as significant pipelines for the re-emission
of the ocean entrapped LW in the first three meters,
by transporting the oceanic
heat content energy for stellar release?
A good way to estimate the effect
of the thermohaline part
of the
heat transport is to shut it down
by dumping a lot
of freshwater into the north Atlantic in a climate model, which stops deep water formation there.
If the
heat transport by the Atlantic thermohaline circulation suddenly increases for some reason (we'll come to that), Greenland suddenly gets warm (an effect amplified
by receding sea ice cover
of the seas near Greenland) and Antarctica starts to cool.
Global average surface temperatures are not expected to change significantly although temperatures at higher latitudes may be expected to decrease to a modest extent because
of a reduction in the efficiency
of meridional
heat transport (offsetting the additional warming anticipated for this environment caused
by the build - up
of greenhouse gases).
I agree that most people will not fully understand the implications
of this, because most don't know diddly about Hadley cells, Ferrel cells, the Polar cell, albedo, latent or sensible
heat, and mechanisms
by which solar energy can be
transported from the Arctic to melt more
of the Greenland ice sheet.
As far as I know, if the only physical mechanism under consideration is the radiative cooling
of the planet's surface (which was
heated by shortwave solar radiation and reradiated at longer wavelengths in the infrared) via radiative
transport, additional gas
of any kind can only result in a higher equilibrium temperature.
I believe that cooling
by adding trace amounts
of a gas to an atmosphere is physically impossible under the assumption that only radiation physics is responsible for
heat transport which is what the guy was arguing.
Theory and modelling suggest that if the sinking
of the salty surface waters in the North Atlantic slowed down or stopped, there would be a reduction in the
heat transport by the ocean, which would have implications for the climate
of northern Europe.
Actually, there is some interesting work being done
by Matt Huber
of Purdue, following up on some earlier ideas
of Emanuel's, suggesting that the role
of TCs in
transporting heat from equator towards the poles may be more significant than previously thought — it also allows for some interesting, though admittedly somewhat exotic, mechanisms for explaining the «cool tropics paradox» and «equable climate problem»
of the early Paleogene and Cretaceous periods, i.e. the problem
of how to make the higher latitudes warm without warming the tropics much, something that appears to have happened during some past warm epochs in Earth's history.
I hadn't heard about the
heat transport via the atmosphere, but it didn't surprise me — that is what the jet streams are all about — a wind caused
by an atmospheric temperature differential, given a little bit
of a spin.
Conceptually, it's hard to see how the Gulf Stream western boundary current could be weakened
by conditions around Greenland; this is a fluid dynamics system, not a mechanical «belt»; a backup due to less deep water formation should have little effect on the physics
of the gyre and the formation
of the western boundary current, and it also seems the tropical warming and the resulting equator - to - pole
heat transport are the drivers — but perhaps modulation
by jet stream meandering is playing some role in the cooling?
If tropical cyclone occurrence decreases, less
of the
heat is dissipated, and unless ocean circulation in some way compensates
by transporting the additional thermal energy elsewhere (i.e. for example out
of the «main development region»
of the Atlantic) some day a storm will tap the enhanced energy source.
Re 40 simon abingdon — there is very little mass loss to space (can be significant for evolution
of conditions over geologic time or in more extreme conditions, but not for Earth like conditions over the timescales over which climatic equilibrium is determined), and latent and sensible
heat are
transported by conduction and convection and mass diffusion, which can't significantly extend outside the atmosphere.
Scientists are still trying to decide how the poleward
heat transport will be affected
by global warming — but the rapid changes at the poles seem to involve a lot
of heat transport into that region via both the atmosphere and the oceans.
-- Approaches in which biomass is converted to
heat, electricity, or liquid or gas fuels followed
by CO2 capture and sequestration are limited
by the availability
of land for biomass cultivation and the need to
transport it to processing facilities.
Heat can be
transported by a veriety
of methods, including meltwater.
«The bikes will be
transported between locations
by increasing the
heat pumped into the balloon so that it may float into the sky with the rack
of bikes connected.
Meanwhile it must also, under European commitments, ensure that 15 %
of the country's total energy supply (electricity,
heat and
transport) comes from renewable sources
by 2020.
Dynamical upward
transport by convection removes excess
heat from the surface more efficiently than longwave radiation is able to accomplish in the presence
of a humid, optically thick boundary layer, and deposits it in the upper troposphere where it is more easily radiated to space, thereby affecting the planetary energy balance.
To the extent that the flow
of «
heat energy» is a part
of that process,
by means
of conduction (collisions between molecules), and convection (physical
transport of molecules), the second law insists that the natural direction
of that flow is from «hot» to «cold».
These processes affect the
transport of water,
heat, salinity, nutrients and carbon in the ocean, impacting on the climate system
by modifying it's ability to absorb human - emitted carbon dioxide and excess
heat resulting from increased carbon dioxide concentrations.
The notion
of an H2O positive feedback (which probably is present on a clear day) is squashed
by this process.While warmer air can hold exponentially more water vapor, presumably increasing greenhouse effects (an process the IPCC hangs its collective hat on), it is also this exact same property that vastly improves the chances
of convective and phase change
heat transport by thunderstorms.