In that case, persistent
deep convection did not occur in the central Pacific, and the usual strong interaction between the atmosphere and the ocean there failed to play its normal role in anchoring the convection and heat transfer.
Not exact matches
«This has to
do with water vapor, which is the fuel for explosive
deep convection in the atmosphere.
Hurricanes
do have a
deep surface mixing effect that normal tropical
convection doesn't produce, and that would be expected to result in greater transfer of heat to the atmosphere, but it gets complicated in a hurry; see the realclimate discussion of the Walker circulation for example, as well as the link between hurricanes and sea surface temps.
«How
do environmental conditions influence vertical buoyancy structure and shallow - to -
deep convection transition across different climate regimes?»
It
does seem certain that the much lower effective thermal resistance of
convection is needed to get the solar energy from the rather
deeper parts where some was absorbed.
«what
does happen is that the water surface radiates away at about 400W / m ^ 2, in fact the top few microns will be cooler than the water a mm
deeper because the transfer of heat from lower down (conduction,
convection, diffusion etc.) is slower than the loss from the surface.»
Obviously that doesn't happen, what
does happen is that the water surface radiates away at about 400W / m ^ 2, in fact the top few microns will be cooler than the water a mm
deeper because the transfer of heat from lower down (conduction,
convection, diffusion etc.) is slower than the loss from the surface.
It says nothing about
deep - sea temperatures, although it
does reference increased warm water and
convection (i.e. tropical cyclones) in the Indian Ocean, which might, in turn, be involved with the 0 - 2000 meter trend in the Indian Ocean mentioned above (originally from Bob Tisdale).
Without winds or a high vertical diffusivity, the ocean
does not support
deep convection.