Sentences with phrase «oceans accumulating heat»

For 2004 — 2011, the data show the oceans accumulating heat at a rate of 0.19 W / m2 (3x1021 J / yr) in the upper 300 meters, 0.30 W / m2 (5x1021 J / yr) in the upper 700 meters, and 0.56 W / m2 (9x1021 J / yr) in the upper 1,800 meters.

If over a long period of time that portion of the ocean accumulates heat, then the index (a statistic calculated from temperatures and pressures) running mean will change over that time span.

Not exact matches

Because Charon's modern - day surface is mostly water ice, it makes sense that the 1212 - km - diameter moon once had a subsurface ocean kept liquid by heat from the radioactive decay of elements in its core, as well as by the heat generated from collisions of smaller bits when the moon first accumulated.

Oceanographers may have solved one of the biggest sea mysteries in years: why the upper ocean didn't warm between 2003 and 2010, even as heat - trapping greenhouse gases accumulated in the air above.

While the planet's surface didn't warm as fast, vast amounts of heat energy continued to accumulate in the oceans and with the switch in the PDO, some of this energy could now spill back into the atmosphere.

When all the heat accumulating in the oceans, warming the land and atmosphere and melting ice is tallied up, we see that global warming is still happening.

«The rise and fall in CERES and ERA - Interim net radiation and upper - ocean heating rates after 2007 (Figs 2 and 4) is entirely consistent with variability linked to ENSO (Fig. 3) and shows no evidence of a discrepancy between TOA net radiation and energy accumulating in Earth's climate system»

Because of it's much higher thermal mass the oceans will represent the largest single location where heat accumulates.

total ocean heat content to 2009 appears to be about 20 × 10 to the 22nd power J. which I take it means Levitus et.al could be ignoring 8 % or so of the heat accumulating in the ocean.

Warmer ocean temperatures are also one of the hallmarks of global warming as most of the heat the planet is accumulating is ending up in ocean.

This is consistent with the amount of heat accumulating in the ocean.

While measurements of ocean heat going down to 700 metres have showed declining heat accumulation, von Schuckmann 2009 shows that measurements of ocean heat going down to 2000 metres find the oceans have been steadily accumulating heat at 0.77 W / m2 from 2003 to 2008.

From 2003 to 2008, the world's oceans have been accumulating heat at a rate of 0.77 W / m2.

But the ocean seems to be accumulating less heat.

More than 90 percent of the accumulated heat due to climate change is ending up in the oceans and its effects are being acutely felt.

Oceans are cooling «Ocean heat touches on the very core of the AGW hypothesis: When all is said and done, if the climate system is not accumulating heat, the hypothesis is invalid.

Burt Armstrong @ 16, you are very much on the right track, but think more in terms of accumulating ocean heat content and rising sea surface temperatures.

If the heat that's accumulated in the oceans between, say, 2003 and 2012 (~ 9 * 10 ^ 22 J) were instead entirely to heat the atmosphere, GAT would have risen ~ 17 K in that time, ex any feedbacks.

Now anyone can see from the data that the ocean heat capacity (OHC) has been accumulating energy at a rate on the order of 0.5 to 1 W / m ^ 2.

My question, if the El Nino does not deliver the punch anticipated or does not actually arrive this fall or winter, where does the accumulating ocean heat go?

Even if ocean surface temperatures fall as in (3), heat continues to accumulate in the earth system until the amount of outgoing radiation at the top of atmosphere equals the amount of incoming radiation there.

The reasons clearly lie in the shift in the distribution of the accumulating heat in the ocean to greater depths with less remaining on the surface.

Hurricanes dissipate heat energy accumulated in the Oceans — they are one of Prigogine's dissipative structures.

But during the «Hiatus» periods, the top of the ocean doesn't accumulate nearly as much heat whereas the next lower levels accumulate more.

A new paper by Trenberth et al. (2014) notes that the amount of heat accumulating in the global climate (most of which is absorbed by the oceans) is generally consistent with the observed global energy imbalance.

The troposphere doesn't exhibit a hot spot, the stratosphere isn't cooling, the oceans are not accumulating heat, the warming has been 40 % of that expected, and the models are inching close to falsification.

Of the heat accumulating in the upper 1,800 meters of oceans for 2004 — 2011, 46 percent was sequestered in the deep oceans (below 700 meters) in the Lyman & Johnson data set.

In recent years, about one - third of that heat has accumulated in the deep oceans.

If the oceans weren't continuing to accumulate heat, sea levels would not be rising nearly as fast.

The incremental response is an acceleration factor, and the accumulated forcing function is still there, which is what is continuing to add the bulk of the heat to the ocean, land, and atmosphere.

Greenhouse gas concentrations spike — heating the atmosphere and the deep ocean after a period of glaciation during which vast stores of carbon accumulated.

Skippy, That decadal incremental response is a growth factor, and the accumulated forcing function is still there, which is what is continuing to add the bulk of the heat to the ocean, land, and atmosphere.

Further, the inertia accumulated by the slowly heating, yet physically vast oceans, means that should large - scale polar melting begin, it will almost certainly be impossible to halt.

At comment # 16.2 below claims that at night the oceans lose all the heat they accumulated during the day.

Storms and extreme rainfall events have always happened, but with the added heat in the atmosphere and oceans due to greenhouse gas emissions, storms now occur with increasing accumulated energy and higher moisture loading.

The indirect solar part is the stored heat in the world ocean and land masses that does not cool off overnight, and hence «accumulates».

Globally, the oceans have continued to accumulate heat to the end of 2008 at a rate of 0.77 ± 0.11 Wm?

Coming from one who at comment # 16.2 stated that at night the oceans lose all the heat they accumulated during the day,...

Failing that, you might like to explain the existence of the great ocean thermal currents that, together with the slipstream air currents, determine our global weather patterns, in your strange little world where the oceans lose their accumulated heat overnight.

While the warming of average global surface temperatures has slowed (though not nearly as much as previously believed), the overall amount of heat accumulated by the global climate has not, with over 90 percent being absorbed by the oceans.

The point is to think how current weather patterns are affected by anthropogenic climate change, so it's necessary to consider the vast majority of that heat accumulating in the oceans.

The paper also includes this useful table illustrating that according to observational data, ocean heat content has indeed accumulated rapidly in the deep oceans in recent years.

A new paper by Trenberth et al. (2014) notes that the amount of heat accumulating in the global climate (most of which is absorbed by the oceans) is generally consistent with the observed global energy imbalance (see the previous post for further details).

Of the heat accumulating in the upper 1,800 meters of oceans for 2004 — 2011, 46 percent was sequestered in the deep oceans (below 700 meters).

The fact that a great deal of the melt in Arctic sea ice is affected by the accumulating heat in the oceans and the fact that energy is advected to the Arctic via the oceans in much larger amounts than via the atmosphere and the extreme loss we've seen in Arctic sea ice volume as a result means nothing to the «skeptics».

But the ocean seems to be accumulating less heat.

Much cooling was hyped yet the oceans have continued to accumulate heat.

While measurements of ocean heat going down to 700 metres have showed declining heat accumulation, von Schuckmann 2009 shows that measurements of ocean heat going down to 2000 metres find the oceans have been steadily accumulating heat at 0.77 W / m2 from 2003 to 2008.

Over the past decade, aerosol emissions (which cause cooling by blocking sunlight) have risen, solar activity has been low, there has been a preponderance of La Niña events (which also cause short - term surface cooling), and heat has accumulated in the deep oceans.

You wrote - «The fact that a great deal of the melt in Arctic sea ice is affected by the accumulating heat in the oceans and the fact that energy is advected to the Arctic via the oceans in much larger amounts than via the atmosphere and the extreme loss we've seen in Arctic sea ice volume as a result means nothing to the «skeptics».»