Sentences with phrase «capacity of the ocean»

Sydney researcher Ian Jones attracted a lot of interest with his innovative scheme to increase the capacity of the ocean to absorb carbon dioxide.

The relationship between our future carbon dioxide emissions and future climate change depends strongly on the capacity of the ocean - carbon sink.

The observed fact that temperatures increases slower over the oceans than over land demonstrates that the large heat capacity of the ocean tries to hold back the warming of the air over the ocean and produces a delay at the surface but nevertheless the atmosphere responds quit rapidly to increasing greenhouse gases.

We have been consuming natural capital far faster than it regenerates, whether it's fossil fuels, fish, forests, wetlands, or the capacity of the oceans and other sinks to take up greenhouse gases.

not quite the whopper of the last point, but has he ever heard about the heat capacity of the ocean, or for that matter, the height of the tropopause (does he think it's at 500 mb globally?).

Heat accumulation as in (4) can take decades, because the heat capacity of the oceans is far larger than that of the atmosphere.

The pace of the completely man - made CO2 increase (by now the CO2 concentration is higher than at any time in the past three million years) leads to a rapid acidification of the world's oceans, because it overcomes the buffer capacity of the oceans.

Since the heat storage capacity of the ocean is > 1000 times that of the atmosphere, having a solid handle on all these is crucial to accurately projecting even average mean climate across multi-decadal time.

In our chat, Rosenthal said the work reveals the enormous capacity of the oceans to act as an efficient and copious reservoir for heat: «Maybe the ocean is taking the heat more and won't exhale it as much.»

Dyn) and one important concept is that the effective heat capacity of the ocean is proportional to the sqrt (Kv).

Because of the large heat capacity of the ocean, nothing disastrous regarding the Earth's climate is likely to happen in your lifetime.

The high specific heat capacity of ocean water causes coastal land to have a milder climate than inland areas.

It would not only have to release the carbon, but would have to warm the entire planet by 5ºC within 13 years, which is impossible, unless the heat capacity of the ocean is zero, which we know is not the case!»

Considering the heat capacity of the oceans is about 1,100 times greater than the air, would not even a modest change in cloud cover affect the radiative balance with far greater magnitude than a parts - per - million change in an atmospheric gas constituent?

Gradually, the anomaly spreads from the mixed - layer to the deeper layers of the ocean, thereby increasing the effective heat capacity of the oceans.

that.000002 the US is responsible for (termites contribute 2.5 times more co2 than man, which would mean 25 times more than the US) is in air which has 1 / 1000th the heat capacity of the ocean, which controls the whole shooting match and is now going into its cooling phases after being in the warming phases the past 20 - 30 years.

[3][4] The tremendous heat capacity of the oceans moderates the planet's climate, and its absorption of various gases affects the composition of the atmosphere.

Because of the different heat capacity of the oceans and the atmosphere — the amount of energy which would heat the atmosphere by 1 K (Kelvin) will only heat the oceans by 0.001 K. Any lack of warming of the troposphere can be excused by a minuscule change in ocean temperature.

The heat capacity of the ocean is 1,000 x greater than the atmosphere, ocean is over 70 % of earth's surface and earth is warmed by radiation from sun and GHE.

There are extremely long internal lags due to the vast thermal capacity of the oceans and the asymmetrical distribution.

Then there is the heat capacity of the oceans, on the order of 10 ^ 26 since there is that little latent heat of fusion issue.

Pekka answers this referring to the great heat capacity of the ocean, which could aborb the extra atmospheric heat due to CO2, thereby damping atmospheric increases.

Monthly averages of global mean surface temperature (GMST) include natural variability, and they are influenced by the differing heat capacities of the oceans and land masses.

The heat capacity of the ocean.

When calculating the heat capacity of the ocean, restrict attention to the oceanic mixed layer, which averages only 50m in depth.

As the heat capacity of the oceans is greater than air over land, migration is more prominent over land.

The buffering capacity of oceans is immense and ever recuperating.

The large heat capacity of the oceans mean they soak up a lot of energy and slow down the heating of the atmosphere.

If not for the heat holding capacity of oceans, Earth would be a lot colder.

From what I gather, until last year the estimate accepted by nearly all scientists with knowledge in the field was that the carrying capacity of the oceans was around 1 billion tons of fish.

The heat capacity of the oceans is vast, 5600ZJ per degree and is the main obstacle to CAGW.

The heat capacity of the oceans is ~ 1000 times the atmosphere and is stratified due to temperature / density physics.

iii) The thermal capacity of the oceans is vastly greater than that of the air and incoming solar energy penetrates the oceans by up to 200 meters.

Consider, for instance, that the heat capacity of the ocean is about a thousand times that of the atmosphere.

The basic results of this climate model analysis are that: (1) it is increase in atmospheric CO2 (and the other minor non-condensing greenhouse gases) that control the greenhouse warming of the climate system; (2) water vapor and clouds are feedback effects that magnify the strength of the greenhouse effect due to the non-condensing greenhouse gases by about a factor of three; (3) the large heat capacity of the ocean and the rate of heat transport into the ocean sets the time scale for the climate system to approach energy balance equilibrium.

The planet does not respond instant; y to increases in forcing — mainly due to the heat capacity of the ocean which requires decades (and more) to rise.

Professor Garnaut also said there were signs the capacity of the oceans and the atmosphere to absorb emissions would decrease.

It looks like the ilovemyco2 writers were correct and the whole greenhouse effect was just a result of heat capacity of the oceans and land.

The heat capacity of the oceans is recognized as a factor of enormous importance in delaying the equilibrium response of climate to a CO2 - mediated forcing.

Kenneth wrote: «Why do you think the 93 % does not «control» the 1 %, especially since the heat capacity of the ocean is more than 1,000 times greater than the air?»

Yes, it is not a simple problem considering about 70 % of the earth's surface is covered by water and the heat capacity of the oceans is several orders of magnitude greater than the atmosphere.

Energy budgets are also nonsense because of the overwhelming heat capacity of oceans.

Sense Seeker says: December 16, 2010 at 8:09 pm «You attribute all that [to] the urban heat effect, but couldn't it just be that the capacity of the ocean to absorb heat is so much greater than that of land?»

Not exact matches

Aquaculture has the capacity to relieve the severe pressure of production on the world's oceans, but some environmentalists accuse it of causing environmental problems of its own.

Therefore Halley's traditional model for monsoons — that the different heat capacities of land and ocean surfaces cause these seasonal deluges — doesn't give a full picture.

There are signs, however, that the ocean's capacity to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide has been decreasing over the past few decades, says climate scientist Samuel Jaccard of ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

«The marine calcifiers that live in polar regions are particularly vulnerable to the effects of ocean acidification, a progress which is reducing their mineralization capacity and forming calcium carbonate (CaCO3) skeletons used as a protective and supporting structure against predators» says Blanca Figuerola, main author of the scientific study.

In all, the researchers used a set of mathematical models to reveal that today animals only have about 6 % of their former capacity to move such nutrients away from «hot spots» and across the oceans and land.

It then fluctuated around that level, reaching a high of 306,220 in 2012 before declining below the carrying capacity in the years since as ocean conditions changed.

Of course the oceans and the earth itself have a large heat capacity and will therefore respond slowly and with a delay.