Sentences with phrase «layer oceanic heat»
Our results show that repeated clusters of volcanic eruptions can induce a net negative radiative forcing that results in a centennial and global scale cooling trend via a decline in mixed - layer oceanic heat content.
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ENSO events, for example, can warm or cool ocean surface temperatures through exchange of heat between the surface and the reservoir stored beneath the oceanic mixed layer, and by changing the distribution and extent of cloud cover (which influences the radiative balance in the lower atmosphere).
ENSO events, for example, can warm or cool ocean surface temperatures through exchange of heat between the surface and the reservoir stored beneath the oceanic mixed layer, and by changing the distribution and extent of cloud cover (which influences the radiative balance in the lower atmosphere).
Changes here have a long term effect, affecting the strength of the north - ward horizontal flow of the Atlantic's upper warm layer, thereby altering the oceanic poleward heat transport and the distribution of sea surface temperature (SST — AMO), the presumed source of the (climate) natural variability.
The oceanic boundary layer (the thermocline), with its much more vast reservoirs of heat, operates on much longer time scales.
Thus, if the absorption of the infrared emission from atmospheric greenhouse gases reduces the gradient through the skin layer, the flow of heat from the ocean beneath will be reduced, leaving more of the heat introduced into the bulk of the upper oceanic layer by the absorption of sunlight to remain there to increase water temperature.
For starters the heat capacity of the atmosphere is at least two orders of magnitude below the oceanic mixed layer, which is what CO2 radiative forcing heats.
When calculating the heat capacity of the ocean, restrict attention to the oceanic mixed layer, which averages only 50m in depth.
As you rightly point out, the influence of oceanic heat - sinks is potentially a large factor and I don't really know how the transfer of energy within it is modelled in terms of difusion, layer mixing and bulk transport.