Congressman Farr has been a steadfast champion and leader on
ocean issues since he first came to Congress.
The PIM conferences have contributed to the development and formation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and to policy and science debates on
ocean issues since their inception.
Not exact matches
Since so many explanations of the hiatus (however you want to define it) hinge on what's happening in the
oceans, I'd think this would be an
issue climate scientist would need to deal with.
Oceans would be a significant
issue,
since data is very sparse over significant
ocean areas.
Now,
since the cloud / aerosols
issue has reared its ugly head, internal
ocean dynamics also can have a profound impact on climate.
Another
issue these turtles face is the plastics in the
oceans,
since they subsist almost entirely on jellyfish, they often mistake plastic bags, balloons and other plastics for their food.
Since then you've said that «the original
issue is: How does the missing (CO2 - induced) heat from the atmosphere, get into the
ocean?»
Tony -
Since deep
ocean heat seems to be the lynch pin of much of the debate I am most interested in what you find out about the
issue.
Since I tend to enjoy the
ocean paleo more than most I have focused more on convective trigger temperatures and
issues with different SST proxies.
Then there is the heat capacity of the
oceans, on the order of 10 ^ 26
since there is that little latent heat of fusion
issue.
Gates tries to fog up the
issue by bringing in suspected warming of the
ocean, which has really only been measured
since around 2003,
since ARGO came on line.
Barnett et al. «Penetration of Human - Induced Warming into the World's
Oceans» (Science, Vol 309,
Issue 5732, 284 - 287, 8 July 2005) «A new study has found a «compelling agreement» between observed changes in
ocean temperatures
since 1960 and the changes simulated by two climate models under rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.
Roger Bedard,
ocean energy leader for EPRI and author of the EPRI reports, said the number of tidal project proposals has boomed
since the reports were
issued late last year and early this year.
The statement about «no time - lag» is puzzling,
since latency is a big
issue in
ocean studies.
When I started to look at the global warming
issue my initial inclination was to look at
Ocean data,
since it's such a huge heat sink, relatively constant backscatter, and potentially the source one would want to measure with as much accuracy as possible., Also, Seemed to me like it was a «natural» filter of noisy data.
To roughly solve the problem you use a moist air and
ocean model applying basic thermodynamics and compare that to a radiant model
since the surface is the
issue.
Global Warming: Overview and Causes Global Warming, the general increase in the earth's near - surface air and
ocean temperatures, remains a pressing
issue in a society that has expanded its industrial use
since the mid-twentieth century.
Since his first election in 2000, he has developed a strong track record of leadership and support for
ocean issues.
Since the topic of the thread is
Ocean Heat Content Uncertainties, in the context of OHC as a proxy for globalclimatewarmingchange, I would have thought it was obvious I was speaking of «close» in the sense of giving sufficiently precise and accurate measurements to determine the central
issue in this debate.
The main
issue of interest is to what extent can
ocean heat sequestration explain the hiatus
since 1998.