Not exact matches
At the top of the eyewall,
water condenses; as the resulting drops
fall back down to the
ocean surface they lose power through friction with the surrounding air.
As of March 2013,
surface waters of the tropical north Atlantic
Ocean remained warmer than average, while Pacific
Ocean temperatures declined from a peak in late
fall.
As tides raised by Jupiter in Europa's
ocean rise and
fall, they may cause cracking, additional heating, and even venting of
water vapor into the airless sky above Europa's icy
surface.
As the Earth continued to cool from Years 0.1 to 0.3 billion, a torrential rain
fell that turned to steam upon hitting the still hot
surface, then superheated
water, and finally collected into hot or warm seas and
oceans above and around cooling crustal rock leaving sediments.
Just as our moon's gravity squeezes and stretches the Earth a bit, causing the
oceans to rise and
fall, Saturn's massive gravitational pull squeezes and stretches its tiny moon, causing cracks on its icy
surface to open and allowing
water to shoot out.
Flannery and other scientific writers have identified 1976 as the year when the earth's climate took a serious turn under specifically human influences, when the
ocean's
surface waters warmed and its salt content
fell.
Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice >
water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the
surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain
fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea
water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt
water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in
ocean currents -LRB-?)
Geoengineering proposals
fall into at least three broad categories: 1) managing atmospheric greenhouse gases (e.g.,
ocean fertilization and atmospheric carbon capture and sequestration), 2) cooling the Earth by reflecting sunlight (e.g., putting reflective particles into the atmosphere, putting mirrors in space to reflect the sun's energy, increasing
surface reflectivity and altering the amount or characteristics of clouds), and 3) moderating specific impacts of global warming (e.g., efforts to limit sea level rise by increasing land storage of
water, protecting ice sheets or artificially enhancing mountain glaciers).
The vertically integrated inventory of human emitted CO2 in the
oceans is (not surprisingly) much greater in areas of cold deep convection, especially in the northern Atlantic (the
falling leg of the thermohaline circulation), and much less in the tropics where the
ocean is strongly stratified; absorption in the tropics really is more in the near -
surface waters.
When four hurricanes of extraordinary strength tore through Florida last
fall, there was little media attention paid to the fact that hurricanes are made more intense by warming
ocean surface waters.
Falling back on the
surface temperatures as the metric for the most societal relevant climate metric, even if its period of record is longer, is not a reason to focus on it, if it does not serve the purpose of telling us if humans are significantly altering these circulation patterns, and thus the weather and
ocean conditions that matter the most in terms of the impacts on
water resources, food, energy, human health and ecosystem function.