Sentences with phrase «upper ocean heat storage»
Not exact matches
It seems to me that they must show deeper mixing than 50 M, since there is not enough mass in the upper 50 meters of ocean to account for the annual heat storage changes that are implied by observations for the the full integrated 700 meter volume of ocean.
http://www.realclimate.org/
«Our simulated 1993 - 2003 heat storage rate was 0.6 W / m2 in the upper 750 m of the ocean.
Increased heat storage in the upper polar ocean leading to destabilization of shallow - water methane hydrates and massive CH4 / CO2 fluxes to the atmosphere would not be good news (I'm assuming I can skip a discussion of petroleum geology and the various routes of methane formation).
While surface melt is likely to reach a maximum in August, bottom melt has just gotten underway at all the sites and is expected to continue beyond the date of the September minimum ice extent, as a result of storage of solar heat in the upper ocean.