"Heat content" refers to the amount of heat energy stored within a substance or system. It indicates how much heat is present or available for transfer or use.
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He is also correct that
global heat content of the ocean is a huge part of warming or the lack thereof, but his next statement is not entirely correct.
To answer this, we need to view observations of ocean
heat content over the past 40 years.
[2] This, in turn, could have driven the higher rate of increase in ocean
heat content shown in [1].
If this was so widely supported by the community, there would be an actual paper that used this equation to calculate atmospheric
heat content anomalies surely?
A major feature of Figure 5.1 is the relatively large increase in global ocean
heat content during 1969 to 1980 and a sharp decrease during 1980 to 1983.
However, our Figure 1 and Table 1 illustrate that the long - term global
heat content trend has risen at a steady, increasing rate over the past 4 decades.
Just a general observation in regards to the oceanic
heat content value in determining global warming.
I tend to think for the reasons we discuss last year that the
large heat content provides us with a buffer, but it also has its own limitations.
It is not yet standard practice to use ocean
heat content observations, which are available for the past 50 years, to validate forced climate simulations.
The increased
heat content leads to higher sea levels, melting glaciers, and stress to marine ecosystems.
Land and
ice heat content (eg - the energy required to melt ice) were also included.
For graph 2, the ocean
heat content numbers are new and were not used in any model training, and for graph 3, the true projections started in 1984 as stated.
Note that the layers below 2.5 km depth have much smaller changes in
heat content compared with the surface.
I will bet that local ocean
heat content fluctuations follow a scale - free power law distribution — 1 / f noise, not white, nor red.
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