Sentences with phrase «heat content fluctuations»

I will bet that local ocean heat content fluctuations follow a scale - free power law distribution — 1 / f noise, not white, nor red.

, or 3) a 10 - year «red noise» unpredictable fluctuation of the climate system driven by an ocean heat content fluctuation [Meehl et al, NCC 2011](that, however, in the model simulations would occur in 2055 and 2075!).

Not exact matches

Numerous denier arguments involving slight fluctuations in the global distribution of warmer vs cooler sea surface areas as supposed explanations of climate change neglect all the energy that goes into ocean heat content, melting large ice deposits and so forth.

A fluctuation in the location of slightly warmer surface water could hardly cause the global increase in ocean heat content.

Chen and Tung (2014) analyse the ocean heat content data maintained by a Japanese research group, Ishii et al (2005), and make a number of statements about the cause of multi-decadal fluctuations in ocean heat mixing rates.

I would have thought that was a more reasonable view than a large coincidental natural fluctuation that somehow also more rapidly warmed the land, removed Arctic sea ice and raised ocean heat content while giving us the warmest decade on record.

The natural internal variability of the climate system arises from factors such as El Niño, fluctuations in the thermohaline circulation, and changes in ocean heat content.

Surface layer temperature tracks interannual El Niño / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) fluctuations (Roemmich and Gilson, 2011), but with the 0 — 100 m surface layer variations partially offset in heat content by opposite variability from 100 — 400 m.

If natural, internal, fluctuations move heat from the ocean to the atmosphere, that will be reflected in a reduction in ocean heat content, and hence in measured OHU, and an increase in surface temperatures.

Apparently, these GCMs can «forecast» climate change only «a posteriori», that is, for example, if we want to know what may happen with these GCMs from 2012 to 2020 we need first to wait the 2020 and then adjust the GCM model with ad - hoc physical explanations including even an appeal to an unpredictable «red - noise» fluctuation of the ocean heat content and flux system (occurring in the model in 2055 and 2075!)