Sentences with phrase «flow between the ocean and the atmosphere»

In particular is it something that could in principle be measured in our lifetime, or are we stuck with calculating it based on our best understanding of how heat flows between the ocean and the atmosphere?

Regarding heat flow between the ocean and atmosphere, keep in mind that hte average surface temperature of the global oceans is about 17C, which is warmer than the near - surface atmosphere (on average).

Not exact matches

Understanding how carbon flows between land, air and water is key to predicting how much greenhouse gas emissions the earth, atmosphere and ocean can tolerate over a given time period to keep global warming and climate change at thresholds considered tolerable.

Increased warming of the cool skin layer (via increased greenhouse gases) lowers its temperature gradient (that is the temperature difference between the top and bottom of the layer), and this reduces the rate at which heat flows out of the ocean to the atmosphere.

As you say, the net flow of energy is always between a warmer ocean surface and a colder atmosphere.

Did warming of the earth ever start, or was it just a variation in the flow of energy between ocean and atmosphere?

Yes they ad up: the natural flows in and out are huge and only rough estimates, but the difference between the natural inflows and outflows (for oceans and vegetation and all other processes together) is well known, as that is the difference between increase in the atmosphere and the human emissions.

There is of nevertheless a time lag between the increase or decrease in energy flow from the oceans and the ability of the atmosphere to restore the equilibrium.

ENSO is a product of changing turbulent flow rates between the ocean and the atmosphere.

This is the weather, and is largely responsible for heat flow between atmosphere and ocean.

Accumulating GW gases in the atmosphere alter the thermal gradient between ocean and space, so energy flows less readily from ocean to atmosphere to space, and just like wearing a jacket on a cold day does not force more energy into your body, but rather allows the body to retain more energy.

Carbon flows between the atmosphere, land, and ocean in a cycle that encompasses nearly all life and sets the thermostat for Earth's climate.

With steady pCO2 in the atmosphere, the pressure difference between ocean pCO2 and pCO2 of the atmosphere changes and thus the flows from one to the other.

Even if not all sinks are known to any accuracy, neither the partitioning between vegetation and oceans (one of them even may be a net source), we know with reasonable accuracy that all natural flows together form a net sink of average 3 GtC / yr (ad that is the difference between emissions and accumulation in mass in the atmosphere).