Sentences with phrase «only between ocean and atmosphere»

It is important to mention that these processes are not uniform over the global ocean and thus the disequilibrium is not only between ocean and atmosphere, but there are also differences in radiocarbon levels within the ocean.

Not exact matches

Then, last year, after analyzing crust samples collected from the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans, scientists estimated that our planet had, sometime between 2.6 million and 1.5 million years ago, been buffeted by supernovae shock waves — ones that left their mark not only on Earth's surface but also affected its atmosphere.

But all three also point to the same bleak conclusion: human impacts on the atmosphere promise only the choice between a dangerous future, and a catastrophic one, as the planetary thermometer rises, glaciers and icecaps melt, the oceans become more acidic and more likely to flood coastal communities, hurricanes and typhoons become more intense and destructive, heatwaves become more lethal and droughts become more devastating.

According to Wikipedia they explain the RE by saying: «If CO2 in the atmosphere is increased by one part per million, the CO2 in the ocean is increased by only a tenth of a part per million, because of the way that the carbon dioxide in the water is partitioned between carbonate ions and bicarbonate ions and free CO2.

Yes they ad up: the natural flows in and out are huge and only rough estimates, but the difference between the natural inflows and outflows (for oceans and vegetation and all other processes together) is well known, as that is the difference between increase in the atmosphere and the human emissions.

Its turnover time is only about four years because of the rapid exchange between the atmosphere and the ocean and terrestrial biota.

Seasonal exchanges are huge: about 20 % of all CO2 in the atmosphere is exchanged between atmosphere and other reservoirs over the seasons, but as the exchanges with oceans and vegetation are countercurrent with temperature (vegetation in the NH dominates), the net result is only some 2 % change in the atmosphere over the seasons which is visible in the Mauna Loa curve.

There's only a rather fixed amount of CO2 in circulation between atmosphere, biosphere / land and ocean at any time, of order about 2000 Gt.

My educated layman's physicist's gut (layman as far as climate science goes, not physics) tells me 2W / m2 out of the ocean seems pretty high given that the temperature difference is generated by a peak forcing of only -3.4 W / m2 - it implies that the ocean response is of the same order as the atmospheric response, which seems unlikely given the «impedance mismatch» between the ocean and atmosphere.

The emissions and their partitioning only include the fluxes that have changed since 1750, and not the natural CO2 fluxes (e.g., atmospheric CO2 uptake from weathering, outgassing of CO2 from lakes and rivers, and outgassing of CO2 by the ocean from carbon delivered by rivers) between the atmosphere, land and ocean reservoirs that existed before that time and still exist today.

The basic idea, as I interpret the point, is that variability in the state of oceans does not affect climate only trough heat transfer between deep ocean and surface / atmosphere, but also trough albedo.

And warmer oceans (even if they are only marginally warmer) should absorb less CO2, and there is a fairly good year - to - year correlation between the fraction remaining in the atmosphere and the temperature change from the previous year (higher in warmer yearAnd warmer oceans (even if they are only marginally warmer) should absorb less CO2, and there is a fairly good year - to - year correlation between the fraction remaining in the atmosphere and the temperature change from the previous year (higher in warmer yearand there is a fairly good year - to - year correlation between the fraction remaining in the atmosphere and the temperature change from the previous year (higher in warmer yearand the temperature change from the previous year (higher in warmer years).