Sentences with phrase «dark land and ocean»

However, as the snow and ice melts, it's replaced by dark land and ocean, both of which absorb energy.

This is because when the Earth warms, snow and ice melt, uncovering darker land and ocean surfaces.

This is because when the Earth warms, snow and ice melt, uncovering darker land and ocean surfaces.

Not exact matches

Map of current land and ice separating the Weddell and Ross seas, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Wutsje / CIA Octopuses have made themselves at home in most of the world's oceans — from the warmest of tropical seas to the deep, dark reaches around hydrothermal vents.

Figure 1: Land, atmosphere, and ice heating (red), 0 - 700 meter ocean heat content (OHC) increase (light blue), 700 - 2,000 meter OHC increase (dark blue).

Figure 1: Land, atmosphere, and ice heating (red), 0 - 700 meter ocean heat content (OHC) increase (light blue), 700 - 2,000 meter OHC increase (dark blue).

On the other hand they melt fast when a rising ocean hits their boundary and turns landlocked ice directly into dark ocean surface with no intermediate state of ice - free land surface.

above: land, atmosphere, and ice heating (red), 0 - 700 meter ocean heat content (OHC) increase (light blue), 700 - 2,000 meter OHC increase (dark blue).

This increases the surface area of exposed, dark ocean water, and promotes a self - reinforcing cycle of land and sea ice melting and climate warming.

Which means that the proportion of heat in the ocean as opposed to the atmosphere might be slightly different (big deal because the oceans store so much heat), that albedo might be slightly higher because you have less areas covered by forests which are darker than clear land and thus absorb more sunlight, and so on.

Snow and ice are positive feedbacks because, as they melt, the darker ocean and land absorb more sunlight.

So, yet again, this is global warming: Figure 1: Land, atmosphere, and ice heating (red), 0 - 700 meter ocean heat content (OHC) increase (light blue), 700 - 2,000 meter OHC increase (dark blue).

But you are right, a great potion from the sun that does get absorbed by land would be in the IR and the darker oceans would absorb a larger portion of the visible along with nearly 100 % IR.