Sentences with phrase «oceanic heat»

This is consistent with the finding that reduced warming is not mainly a result of a change in radiation balance but due to oceanic heat storage.

The tagged animals traveled to and took measurements from a fourth known source of bottom water, a crucial oceanic heat sink

The probabilistic analyses of DAI reported in this section draw substantially on (subjective) Bayesian probabilities to describe key uncertainties in the climate system, such as climate sensitivity, the rate of oceanic heat uptake, current radiative forcing, and indirect aerosol forcing.

As for Pielke's polite and respectful exchange, his main point that not enough information is known about the phenomena of oceanic heat transfer.

Professor Drijfhout said: «This study attributes the increased oceanic heat drawdown in the equatorial Pacific, North Atlantic and Southern Ocean to specific, different mechanisms in each region.

Thus as sea ice expands in a cooler climate, the high - latitude oceanic heat loss to the atmosphere is inhibited, the thermohaline circulation weakens, and the sinking regions move equatorward, leading to a shallower and weaker deep circulation.

The atmospheric Greenhouse Effect merely sets a theoretical background atmospheric temperature level that is continually overridden as a result of the size of the constant interlinked changes in both the solar and oceanic heat inputs.

Seasonal forecasting of East Asian summer monsoon based on oceanic heat sources.

Some common model biases in the Southern Ocean have been identified, resulting in some uncertainty in oceanic heat uptake and transient climate response.

The great flow of Arctic deep water comes mainly from THC and is fed with NAD.It prooves the great sinking of water in this zone and the great oceanic heat transfer.

A lasting impact of the ice — albedo feedback is not possible because the large ‐ scale heat fluxes quickly adapt to release the excess oceanic heat from the Arctic.

There could, for example, be SOC events reflected in ice sheet dynamics, as oceanic heat transfer destabilises the Antarctic circulation, leading to acelerated ice sheet destabilisation.

The abstract reads (my boldface): Estimated values of recent oceanic heat uptake are of order of a few tenths of a W / m2, and...

I just feel uneasy about accrediting a recent enhanced oceanic heat content to a purely physical process.

This study showed that the predictability of La Niña duration is controlled by the magnitude of initial oceanic heat content anomalies driven by the preceding El Nino.

The influence of anthropogenic forcing has also been detected in various physical systems over the last 50 years, including increases in global oceanic heat content, increases in sea level, shrinking of alpine glaciers, reductions in Arctic sea ice extent, and reductions in spring snow cover (Hegerl et al., 2007).

They found that 68 percent of the variance in the date that ice retreats from the continental shelf break in the Chukchi Sea in spring can be explained by fluctuations in the April through June Bering Strait oceanic heat inflow.

Current events surrounding increased oceanic heat around ice sheet margins in Antarctic are expected to play a dynamical role in marine terminating glacial ice loss acceleration there as well.

While the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean has a complex three - dimensional spatial structure, the zonally integrated flow in the basin, referred to as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), is largely responsible for the net northward oceanic heat transport on climate - relevant timescales.

Enhanced oceanic warming along the equator is also evident in the zonal means of Figure 10.6, and can be associated with oceanic heat flux changes (Watterson, 2003) and forced by the atmosphere (Liu et al., 2005).

After all CO2 is itself only a tiny portion of total greenhouse gases so that it can not have any significant long term effect when the water vapour primarily affecting atmospheric heat retention is in turn itself but a tiny proportion of global heat retaining capacity when one adds in the vastly greater oceanic heat retaining effect.

Unusually warm waters extended to great depth below the storm, creating some of the highest oceanic heat content readings we see for a tropical cyclone — near 150 kJ / cm2 (as shown in the above image)

Our results show that repeated clusters of volcanic eruptions can induce a net negative radiative forcing that results in a centennial and global scale cooling trend via a decline in mixed - layer oceanic heat content.

Science Deliverable III From Deliverables I - II, predictions of (1) accelerating oceanic heating, (2) accelerating ice - mass loss, (3) accelerating incidence of extraordinary heat and drought, (4) accelerating sea - level rise - rate.

Tsang, 1985: Seasonal oceanic heat transports computed from an atmospheric model.

The Southern Ocean plays a dominant role in anthropogenic oceanic heat uptake.

Turbulent mixing driven by breaking internal tides plays a primary role in the meridional overturning and oceanic heat budget.

As only the first few millimetres of the oceans at most absorb long wave radiation emitted by GHGs and it is unlikely that this layer stops evaporation of heat from the oceans how can GHGs influence oceanic heat storage directly?