Sentences with phrase «outgoing heat drives»

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But there is this much physics behind it: both the melting of glaciers and the warming of ocean water is driven by the imbalance between incoming and outgoing heat energy.

One of the most puzzling things is that the heating between 1980 and 2000 seems to have been driven by a large increase in net received shortwave radiation due to albedo reduction, rather than by any observed reduction in outgoing longwave radiation.