Sentences with phrase «ocean heat storage»

But as discussed here, changes in ocean heat storage and ventilation offer a superior explanation.

Some important aspects were not understood back then, like the role of greenhouse gases other than CO2, of aerosol particles and of ocean heat storage.

They did the same with ocean heat storage; that is, they failed to use the raw data but only averaged data.

The vast areas of open water in 2007 and 2008 increased the amount of summer ocean heat storage.

Large areas had open water with no indication of grease ice formation, implying considerable ocean heat storage.

The most reliable source of information for changes in the global mean net air — sea heat flux comes from the constraints provided by analyses of changes in ocean heat storage.

----- On a matter unrelated to the late Sir Arthur: @Thapa (# 5), see NASA's current issue of The Earth Observer (page 16): «These findings were enough to convince the scientists who initially reported the ocean cooling [Willis et al. (2007)-RSB- to go back and closely reexamine the recent ocean heat storage data they had collected.

In fact, the calculation has been done very carefully by Hansen and co-workers, taking all factors into consideration, and when compared with observations of ocean heat storage over a period long enough for the observed changes to be reliably assessed, models and observations agree extremely well (see this article and this article.).

26; (2) 0.07 + / - 0.05 Wm - 2 from ocean heat storage at depths below 2,000 m using data from 1981 to 2010 (ref.

«Global Upper Ocean Heat Storage Response to Radiative Forcing from Changing Solar Irradiance and Increasing Greenhouse Gas / Aerosol Concentrations.»

Likewise Antarctica's Refrigerator Effect completely altered ocean heat storage and ventilation and can parsimoniously accounts for Cenozoic global cooling.

The NCAR climate model used by Meehl et al may not simulate the duration of the IPO (each phase being only around 10 years long instead of 25 - 30 years) and the exact manner of ocean heat storage correctly, but it has simulated the majority of deep ocean storage taking place in the Southern and Atlantic Oceans.

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The post Ocean heat storage: a particularly lousy policy target + Update at RealClimate finally presented a few realities of the global - warming metric known as ocean heat content — realities we have discussed numerous times.

Gray also made a mess of an attempt to analyze the mid-twentieth century ocean heat storage.»

If a noted climate scientist explains multi-year changes in ocean heat storage in terms of «tropical variablity» or «weather», I would suspect that any particularly intense tropical cyclone (or season, or multiple seasons) would surely also fall into this category of «tropical variability».

Research that ignores contributions to GMST from ocean heat storage, ventilation and vertical mixing, they must greatly exaggerate climate sensitivity to CO2.

This also relates to mixing in the ocean, the mixed layer depth and ocean heat storage and exchanges.

For example, measurement of the ocean heat storage doesn't support any slowdown.

Future topics that will be discussed include: climate sensitivity, sea level rise, urban heat island - effects, the value of comprehensive climate models, ocean heat storage, and the warming trend over the past few decades.

These uncertain quantities consists of many things including response to aerosols, water vapor / clouds and the time constant of ocean heat storage that have no solution at present.

And what about the ocean heat storage?

And that average depth of the oceans is an order of 3 magnitudes greater, about 3600 meters; changes in ocean heat storage and ventilation have humongous impacts on global climate.

Understanding the relation between sea level (SL) and bottom pressure (BP) is important for a number of topics relating to ocean circulation and climate, and in particular for diagnosing steric height changes and ocean heat storage.