Sentences with phrase «know ocean heat»

If we knew ocean heat uptake as well as we know atmospheric temperature change, then we could pin down fairly well the radiative imbalance at the top of the atmosphere, which would give us a fair indication of how much warming is «in the pipeline» given current greenhouse gas concentrations.

Given a free choice of GCMs, I would not choose to use OHC data from a model with a known ocean heat transport problem.

Not exact matches

More amazingly, we now know that beneath the crust of Enceladus is a global ocean of liquid saltwater and organic molecules, all being heated by hydrothermal vents on the seafloor.

«Ultimately, we want to know what effect the transportation and storage of heat has on the ocean.

More frequent and larger changes in the North Pacific High appear to originate from rising variability in the tropics and are linked to the record - breaking El Niño events in 1983, 1998, and 2016 and the 2014 - 2015 North Pacific Ocean heat wave known as «The Blob.»

Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corals.

One reason the oceans took up more heat was because of a phenomenon known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.

Whipped up by surface winds and girded by the Coriolis effect (produced by Earth's rotation), eddies may grow to several hundred kilometers in diameter and are known to transport heat, chemicals and biology throughout the oceans» shallower depths.

«People who try to predict the circulation of ocean currents and the atmosphere have to know how energies mix — in this case, the heat energy and heat flux,» Hou said.

There is no way to know that for sure, but the revised sea - level numbers are consistent with the idea that the oceans are absorbing much of the lost heat in the past decade.

It has been known since far before industrial times that land heats faster than the oceans.

But they now know this is not the case — so something else must be heating the ocean.

In Earth's oceans, that sort of heating shows up at sites known as hydrothermal vents.

We know that it has an internal heat source (hence the liquid oceans).

The upper ocean, which scientists know captures much of the excess energy trapped in the atmosphere, also reached its largest heat content on record in 2017, Arndt said.

During the fall, the heat that was added to the oceans gets released into the atmosphere as sea ice reforms, and this added heat is bound to change weather patterns somehow (this is a process known as «Arctic Amplification»).

«Scientists do not yet know exactly how the tiny moon generates enough heat to sustain this large ocean.»

I am not sure if WUWT fans know that here are no urban heat islands over the arctic ocean??

Data collected by a network of free - floating sensors, known as ARGO floats, show that from January 2006 to December 2013, a lot more heat has been finding its way to the deep ocean instead.

I know about the aerosols and the heat in the deep oceans.

Your attempt to estimate equilibrium climate sensitivity from the 20th C won't work because a) the forcings are not that well known (so the error in your estimate is large), b) the climate is not in equilibrium — you need to account for the uptake of heat in the ocean at least.

If global surface temperatures continue not to increase v quickly over the next decade or two then I think this could seriously slow down action to cut GHG emissions, no matter how well understood the «slow - down» is, and no matter how much additional heat is measured accumulatng in the oceans.

As you will know, heat passes from a hotter to a cooler body; and on the average, the surface layers of the oceans are cooler than the air above them (as anyone who has tried swimming in the North Sea on a sunny day in August will testify).

You do know the oceans release heat daily, weekly, seasonally, and in various oscillations and cycles, etc..

... not intended to suggest that the heat capacity exchange / transfer / transport rates used are a realistic representation of actual ocean circulation, although from what little I know, it could be a step in that general direction from using one upper and one deep ocean reservoir.

- but yes, by IPWP I meant the Indo - Pacific Warm Pool and sorry if the term seems obscure but it is well known by those studying ocean to atmosphere interactions and as such, is key to really understanding El Niño activity and the spikes in tropospheric heat El Niños can bring.

We're essentially running a large experiment where we're putting this heat into the deep ocean and we don't quite know what the downstream effects are going to be.

- This semi-permanent state might end up when the AMOC will stear its trajectory or slow down to the point that it no longer bring heat into the Artic ocean which may refreazed, get colder and stop the Greenland melt.

I know nothing about climate science, but just reading your post I wonder if it is possible that the decrease in measured ocean heat content is mostly a factor of having better tools (the ARGO floating profilers)?

Another 0.5 K of warming is already «in the pipeline» due to ocean heat storage no matter what we do.

Lawrence, yes, the accumulation of heat in the oceans is the primary metric of global warming, but it's distributed unevenly, and we don't know how much of it will be diluted in cold waters and how much, when and where it will be released to the atmosphere.

The heat would dissipate to the general volume of the ocean — so, no, the deep ocean would NOT be hot.

What you don't seem to know is that most of the heat retained by the earth because of the difference between incoming and outgoing radiation (which is inhibited by CO2 and H2O and other GHG's) is almost entirely absorbed by the oceans 90 % of it, which have a huge heat capacity.

It did not «cause» the LIA, as indeed, you know the LIA was quite variable, but it made a serious dent in global ocean heat content, and thus, was the doorway to the LIA cooling period that followed.

Why would you look for a direct correlation there unless you are too dumb to know most of the heat is stored in the oceans, over 90 % in fact.

As such I am extremely skeptical of goofy claims to know what the global heat content of the ocean is to hundredths of a degree.

Despite measurements of total heat absorbed by the oceans by Levitus et al. (2000) and Levitus et al. (2001), «20th - century sea level remains an enigma — we do not know whether warming or melting was dominant, and the budget is far from closed,» according to Munk (2003).

I don't know about all of you, but I do find that the uncertainty around e.g. the various issues related to ocean heat content or issues regarding connecting the Argo float network to other data networks is SO much better covered in Judith's bizarre and uniquely repetitive mischaracterizations of other scientists» comments, than by the published science and its critical review.

It would not only have to release the carbon, but would have to warm the entire planet by 5ºC within 13 years, which is impossible, unless the heat capacity of the ocean is zero, which we know is not the case!»

We also know for a fact that our GHG emissions have resulted in large amounts of heat being stored in the ocean.

-- no it isn't Ocean heat content is rising — no it isn't, model - based The tropical belt is widening — since LIA Storm tracks are shifting polewards.

A quick sample confirmed my suspicion that 17 times as many people know that the world ends this Friday as know that the ocean is not absorbing heat, contrary to the claims of climate scientists.

Bob Droege, since you know that only the «known» anomaly may have doubled with a fairly large range of uncertainty, do you think saying, «ocean heat content doubled in 16 years.»

SUN, yo: sequestered in the oceans, lakes and subsurface clays, and the heat is on the move, and the heat continually arrives as we all know based on anciet scrolls — i.e.: the heat it arrives via a flaming chariot drawn by four winged horses that are flogged by GOD

So if the DLR is not heating the ocean, and we know less than a quarter of it is going into evaporation, and it's not heating the air... then where is it going?

If they don't have the instruments to measure the temperature if the deep ocean, how do they know the heat has gone there?

Well now, that is something you should take up with Webster, I just know that more efficient mixing increases the average temperature of the oceans which is increasing the total heat in the ocean system which has about 1000 times the heat capacity of the air that that heat would be lost to if the mixing didn't take place as efficiently.

fanciful — has it ever been proposed that ocean heat uptake during interglacials might be the planets way of preparing for the next ice age, when the oceans give up the heat to preserve continuity of life on the surface — I know, sounds a bit link an intelligent Gaia mythology, but doesn't the notion of synergy suggest the possibility?

One of the prime suspects for this has been an increase in trade winds which help to mix heat into the subsurface ocean - part of a natural oscillation known as the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO).

I would have liked to see mention of uncertainty that inherent in examining short term data, whether the end points used introduces an element of bias, whether the «pause» is on a much higher plateau of warming than in the past, whether decadel cycles in ocean heat displacement may have interacted with the the known minimum levels of solar activity (not modelled) to cause this «pause».