That said, the
efficiency of the atmospheric heat engine is rather low; from time to time, inefficiency causes the disparity between the warm source and the cold sink to increase.
Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory showed that global climate models are not accurately depicting the true depth and strength of tropical clouds that have a strong hold on the general
circulation of atmospheric heat and the global water balance.
But your papers claim of a «bias» in the surface temperature record * if * it is used as a linear
predictor of atmospheric heat content only makes sense * if * indeed people had used it in that sense.
Due to the huge volume of sea water and the density differentials between air and ocean that would be impossible or would require such huge
amounts of atmospheric heating and such huge lengths of time that for practical purposes it should be ignored.
14), addresses the
mechanisms of atmospheric heat transfer not only via radiation but also by convection, which is not mentioned once in the IPCC's scientific reports (Ref.
Keystone would boost that total to 2.2 million barrels per day, enrich the pit owners, and lay the groundwork for an ever - more - rapid exploitation of this dangerous
pile of atmospheric heat - venom.
Perhaps the negative feedback of cloud cover has kicked in, dampening global warming, or the ocean
absorption of atmospheric heat is playing a new and more decisive role.
While there is some influence of differences in forcing patterns among the scenarios, and of effects of oceanic uptake and heat transport in modifying the patterns over time, there is also support for the
role of atmospheric heat transport in offsetting such influences (e.g., Boer and Yu, 2003b; Watterson and Dix, 2005).
More than 4
°C of atmospheric heating will take the planet's climate back, within a century, to the largely ice - free world that existed prior to about 35 million years ago.
Upon condensation, this latent energy is converted into sensible heat, or heat that can be felt, and thus represents a
source of atmospheric heating.
Examining data sets of surface heat flux during the last few decades for the same region, we find that the SST warming was not a
consequence of atmospheric heat flux forcing.
Despite important impacts on the
distribution of atmospheric heating, moistening, and momentum, nearly all climate models fail to represent convective organization, while system evolution is not represented at all.