Sentences with phrase «occurs between ocean and atmosphere»

Also, seeing as the oceans contain 50 times the co2 of atmosphere, and the huge exchange that occurs between ocean and atmosphere, I would think such an increase would be trivial and difficult to document.

Not exact matches

Gravity does the pulling in the atmosphere and oceans, although, once in motion, viscous shear forces occur between adjacent layers moving at different velocities.

That locks global warming in for an extended period but permits the equilibration between the atmosphere and the ocean to occur at a sustainable pace.

Much of the warming, he says, stems from fluctuations in temperature that have occurred for millions of years — explained by complicated natural changes in equilibrium between the oceans and the atmosphere — and the latest period of warming will not result in catastrophe.

If we solve the differential equations governing heat transfer between atmosphere and oceans and find that heat transfer does in fact occur, in both directions, then we can conclude that the above choices are not mutually exclusive.

In that case, persistent deep convection did not occur in the central Pacific, and the usual strong interaction between the atmosphere and the ocean there failed to play its normal role in anchoring the convection and heat transfer.