Sentences with phrase «between ocean and atmosphere make»

However, it is also very noisy because a small amount of energy exchange between ocean and atmosphere make a big difference to surface temperature.

Not exact matches

Volume, in contrast, is crucial in determining the vulnerability of Arctic sea ice to rapid future reductions (since thin ice is much more prone to react strongly to a single warm summer, making single very - low sea - ice summers more likely), and the thickness of the ice determines the exchange of heat between ocean and atmosphere.

I see parallels between some of the statement is your quote and James Hansen's statements that there is a risk the oceans will evaporate and Earth will get an atmosphere like Venus unless humans stop their evil ways and stop burning evil fossil fuels — and, if we don't stop burning fossil fuels within the next few years it'll be too late (he made this statement about a decade ago!).

Some time ago, I made an estimate of the deep ocean — atmosphere exchanges to explain the difference in 13C isotope drop in the atmosphere between what was expected from fossil fuel burning and what was observed.

Dan, Could not agree more, Interestingly enough, our oceans have been happily taking part in the Carbon cycle since time immemorial, I wonder if the acid ocean alarmists are prepared to draw a correlation between the proportion of CO2 in our atmosphere and the amount needed to make the oceans «harmfully» acidic.

Climate depends on a multitude of non-linear processes such as the transfer of carbon from the atmosphere to the oceans, the earth and plants, but the models used by the IPCC depend on many simplifying assumptions of linearity between causes and effects in order to make the computation feasible.

Using atmospheric general - circulation models, as well as coupled ocean - atmosphere models, he investigates the interactions between large - scale climate systems such as ocean and wind currents to understand natural variability and how climate responds to human - made forcings.

The magnitude of the [geomagnetic - CO2] mechanism is small compared to the magnitude of the preponderant mechanisms driving the exchange of carbon between ocean and atmosphere, such as water temperature, biological pumping, overturning circulation... it would be preposterous to make the weakening Earth's magnetic field responsible for global warming.

Punta Arenas, Chile, Feb. 28, 2008 — Scientists from over a dozen institutions will embark today from this port on the tip of South America to spend 42 days amid the high winds and big waves of the Southern Ocean, where they will make groundbreaking measurements to explain how large amounts of climate - affecting gases move between atmosphere and sea, and vice-versa.

In the Metzl et al paper for example (your link above), Ocean - atmosphere fluxes differ wildly between models and observations (more than 5 GTc / month, ie 60 Gt / y,) and measurements are made on short periods (less than a decade).