Sentences with phrase «matter from the surface waters»

Life there is sustained by the intermittent rain of dead organic matter from the surface waters.

Not exact matches

The first is to emphasize your point that degassing of CO2 from the oceans is not simply a matter of warmer water reducing CO2 solubility, and that important additional factors include changes in wind patterns, reduction in sea ice cover to reveal a larger surface for gas escape, and upwelling of CO2 from depths consequent to the changing climate patterns.

In that case it does not matter how the water is heated but simply the temperature of the layer of surface water down to a few multiples of the inverse of the IR absorption coefficient which is I think varies from around a few cm to less than 1 mm with increasing wavelength.

The system is vulnerable because even a relatively small decrease in surface salinity prevents water - no matter how cold it is - from sinking.

The ocean surface layer is what directly matters, that contains somewhat more CO2 than the atmosphere (1,000 GtC vs. 800 GtC), but the chemical reactions in the ocean water push the equilibrium back, so that ultimately the surface water - air equilibrium is reached with a 1:9 partitioning between water and air, reverse and far away from the 50:1.

As to the absorption of long - wave radiation from the earth's surface, while it may be true that carbon dioxide and water together do absorb certain frequency ranges of that radiation, I don't think that that matters a whole lot because most of the heat from the surface is transported to the top of the troposphere by conduction, convection and latent heat of vaporization of water during the day.

The AGW Greenhouse Effect energy budget has taken out, excised, the real heat from the Sun which is capable of heating matter and does reach the Earth's surface to heat land and water and replaced it with the claim that visible light heats the matter of the Earth's surface, this is impossible in the real world.

We don't have visible light saunas, we have thermal infrared saunas; we don't have visible light heaters to heat our homes, we have thermal infrared heaters heating matter directly, just as the real thermal infrared direct from the Sun heats the matter on the Earth's surface directly; heats water of the oceans, heats the land, heats it so intensely at the equator that it gives us our HUGE and dramatic WINDS flowing from the equator to the poles and back again.

The increased albedo from melting arctic ice should not matter very much, but the newly exposed cold surface water might absorb extra carbon dioxide, acting as a negative feedback on the whole system.

Light waves can be reflected / scattered, absorbed, refracted, or transmitted to pass through matter unchanged and different materials will have different effects in these encounters; high energy light waves get scattered in our atmosphere from encounters with dust, water vapour, molecules, etc. as the white light hits the rough surface composed of these, so we have a blue sky for example, while the longer IR gets absorbed by water and earth, on a smooth surface such as glass or still water these high energy lights get reflected, angle of incidence equal to, and some pass through to get reflected or scattered at the next surface, think rainbow.