Sentences with phrase «ocean current scenarios»

Another approach is to assume that ocean currents changed, but while researchers can insert new current information into the models, they can not get the models to create these ocean current scenarios.

Not exact matches

One possible scenario is that rising temperatures may alter ocean currents, depriving Europe of the Gulf Stream and making it more like Labrador or Siberia.

However even the moderate scenarios which have eventual stabilisation give more warming than 0.8 C. Even in the extremely unlikely event that there is no further growth in emissions, the current planetary energy imbalance (estimated to be almost 1W / m2)(due to the ocean thermal inertia) implies that there is around 0.5 C extra warming already in the pipeline that will be realised over the next 20 to 30 years.

With regard to the diabatic process the exchange of radiation in and out reaches thermal equilibrium relatively quickly (leaving Earth's oceans out of the scenario for current purposes) and once the temperature rise within the atmosphere has occurred then equilibrium has been achieved and energy in at TOA will match energy out.

In addition, they found that in scenarios where the ocean current slows down due to the addition of heat, the ocean absorbs less of both atmospheric gases and heat, though its ability to absorb heat is more greatly reduced.

As most of the excess heat and greenhouse gases from climate change or even chemical pollutants will go into the ocean, ocean large - scale currents will recirculate that extra load and, at some point, will release some of it back to the atmosphere, where it will keep raising temperatures, regardless of future carbon dioxide emissions scenarios.

The nightmare scenario of a shutdown in the meridional ocean current which drives the Gulf stream was dramatically portrayed in The Day After Tomorrow.