Sentences with phrase «tropical ocean heat transport»

Cameron's thesis is entitled Understanding Climatic Adjustments to Variations in Tropical Ocean Heat Transport.

Not exact matches

A continual cycle of heat and moisture is pulled from the tropical ocean and transported around the globe on belts of atmospheric energy.

And no, there is no huge plunge in tropical or global surface air temperatures when the ocean circulation spins up because there is a near - compensating decrease in poleward heat transport via the atmospheric circulation.

A good explanation of the details is provided here: Koll & Abbot (2013)-- Why Tropical Sea Surface Temperature is Insensitive to Ocean Heat Transport Changes.

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.

Stronger vertical mixing invigorates the MOC [Meridonal Overturning Circulation] by an order of magnitude, increases ocean heat transport by 50 — 100 %, reduces the zonal mean equator - to - pole temperature gradients by up to 6 °C, lowers tropical peak terrestrial temperatures by up to 6 °C, and warms high - latitude oceans by up to 10 °C.»

It has been noted in a five - member multi-model ensemble analysis that, associated with the changes in temperature of the upper ocean in Figure 10.7, the tropical Pacific Ocean heat transport remains nearly constant with increasing greenhouse gases due to the compensation of the subtropical cells and the horizontal gyre variations, even as the subtropical cells change in response to changes in the trade winds (Hazeleger, 2ocean in Figure 10.7, the tropical Pacific Ocean heat transport remains nearly constant with increasing greenhouse gases due to the compensation of the subtropical cells and the horizontal gyre variations, even as the subtropical cells change in response to changes in the trade winds (Hazeleger, 2Ocean heat transport remains nearly constant with increasing greenhouse gases due to the compensation of the subtropical cells and the horizontal gyre variations, even as the subtropical cells change in response to changes in the trade winds (Hazeleger, 2005).

Heat from anomalously warm ocean temperatures is transported vertically and eventually northward by unusually active tropical convection (thunderstorms), warming the upper atmosphere in the lower latitudes.

We find that an increase in poleward heat transport by the tropical ocean results in a warming of the extra-tropics, relatively little change in the tropical temperatures, moistening of the subtropical dry zones, and partial but incomplete compensation of the planetary - scale energy transport by the atmosphere.

For instance, if over 50 % of actual downwards heat transport takes place in the West Pacific / Southern Indian Ocean (s), could differences in tropical cyclonic activity be driving the major differences in heat flow?

Effects of tropical cyclones on ocean heat transport in a high resolution coupled general circulation model.