Both hurricanes and typhoons are strong tropical cyclones, which are storms that form
over warm ocean waters, have a well defined center of circulation, and feed off of heat energy from the ocean.
Not exact matches
The causes of the
warming remain debated, but Liu and his team homed in on the melting glacial
water that poured into
oceans as the ice receded, paradoxically slowing the
ocean current in the North Atlantic that keeps Europe from freezing
over.
They found that western Antarctica has recently seen
warmer, saltier
water being driven under the shelf — the part of the ice sheet that sticks out
over the
ocean (Science, doi.org/xkx).
The simulations suggest that
over decades, these
warming events dramatically perturb the
ocean surface, affecting the flow of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a system of currents that acts like a conveyor belt moving
water around the planet.
Southern
Ocean seafloor
water temperatures are projected to
warm by an average of 0.4 °C
over this century with some areas possibly increasing by as much as 2 °C.
«Hurricanes almost always form
over ocean water warmer than about 80 degrees F. in a belt of generally east - to - west flow called the trade winds.
Changes in
ocean currents, Kennett says, triggered the methane bursts by channeling
warmer water over continental slopes, as at Storegga.
However, when temperatures
warm over the Antarctic regions, deep
waters rise from the floor of the
ocean much closer to the continent.
A new study led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics has found that wind
over the
ocean off the coast of East Antarctica causes
warm, deep
waters to upwell, circulate under Totten Ice Shelf, and melt the fringes of the East Antarctic ice sheet from below.
Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by
warm water that reaches the ice when winds
over the
ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
As the storm moves forward
over these eddies, the
warm ocean waters below help fuel the storm's intensity through enhanced and sustained heat and moisture fluxes.
«We've got so much open
water in the Arctic right now that has absorbed so much energy
over the summer that the
ocean has
warmed.
The
warm ocean water evaporates, adds moisture to the air and falls as precipitation
over nearby regions.
The Gulf Stream, an
ocean current that brings
warm water from the equator toward the North Atlantic, has been credited with this observed variation in temperature for
over a century.
Understanding how carbon flows between land, air and
water is key to predicting how much greenhouse gas emissions the earth, atmosphere and
ocean can tolerate
over a given time period to keep global
warming and climate change at thresholds considered tolerable.
The world's
oceans have already risen by an average of 8 inches
over the last century from a combination of
water added by ice melt and the expansion of
ocean waters as they
warm.
With the sun continuing to heat the
ocean water at the tropical latitudes regardless of ice cap conditions up north, it would seem that the presence of an ice cap would result in a
warmer ocean over the long term, with the converse also being true.
The
warmer ocean waters mean more moisture in the atmosphere for the storm to suck up; the cold air
over the continent ensures that moisture falls as snow.
In any year, temperatures around the world can be nudged up or down by short - term factors like volcanic eruptions or El Ninos, when
warm water spreads
over much of the tropical Pacific
Ocean.
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When you have the largest Atlantic storm in recorded history that is being feed by unusually
warm ocean waters (+5 °F) and is being steered in a very unusual direction by a «3 - sigma» blocking higher
over Greenland after the largest Arctic sea ice melt in human history, you might want to consider the «steroid» hypothesis a bit more.
«
Warm ocean waters helped contribute to ice losses this year, pushing the already thin ice pack
over the edge,» said Meier.
Precipitable
water over a colder
ocean is nowhere as great
over sea
water 10 degrees
warmer.
Is it just folklore that hurricanes (I think these are TC's) occur due to
warm ocean water that causes air to rise
over a region, drawing in air that then develops into circular winds?
In Relationships between
Water Vapor Path and Precipitation over the Tropical Oceans, Bretherton et al showed that although the Western Pacific warmer surface waters increased the water in the atmosphere compared to the Eastern Pacific, rainfall was lower in the Western Pacific compared to the Eastern Pacific for equal amounts of water vapor in the atmospheric column — e.g., about 10mm / day in the Western Pacific, versus ~ 20mm / day in the Eastern Pacific at 55 mm water vapor, the peak of the distribution of water vapor amo
Water Vapor Path and Precipitation
over the Tropical
Oceans, Bretherton et al showed that although the Western Pacific
warmer surface
waters increased the
water in the atmosphere compared to the Eastern Pacific, rainfall was lower in the Western Pacific compared to the Eastern Pacific for equal amounts of water vapor in the atmospheric column — e.g., about 10mm / day in the Western Pacific, versus ~ 20mm / day in the Eastern Pacific at 55 mm water vapor, the peak of the distribution of water vapor amo
water in the atmosphere compared to the Eastern Pacific, rainfall was lower in the Western Pacific compared to the Eastern Pacific for equal amounts of
water vapor in the atmospheric column — e.g., about 10mm / day in the Western Pacific, versus ~ 20mm / day in the Eastern Pacific at 55 mm water vapor, the peak of the distribution of water vapor amo
water vapor in the atmospheric column — e.g., about 10mm / day in the Western Pacific, versus ~ 20mm / day in the Eastern Pacific at 55 mm
water vapor, the peak of the distribution of water vapor amo
water vapor, the peak of the distribution of
water vapor amo
water vapor amounts.
Warmer air temperatures help prevent
ocean water from freezing
over in the first place, and winds can push the ice together, keeping ice extent lower.
«Before the industrial revolution,
over 98 % of
warm water coral reefs were surrounded by open
ocean waters at least 3.5 times supersaturated with aragonite» says Cao.
sheesh 2 DEGREES just look at the s ** t we are getting at 0.8 degrees Its like goodbye coral reefs, goodbye amazon rainforest, goodbye himalayan glaciers that provide
water to 40 % worlds population (lot of poeple in china), goodbye east india monsoon rains needed to grow crops, hello more droughts, hello more forest fires, hello more heat waves, hello more stronger huricanes / typhones / cyclones, hello more floods (because
warmer oceans have even more
water evaporated from them turned into clouds and blown
over land so even more rain pours down at once), hello more jellyfish (they thrive in acidified
oceans because of CO2 absorbtion).
The surface heat capacity C (j = 0) was set to the equivalent of a global layer of
water 50 m deep (which would be a layer ~ 70 m thick
over the
oceans) plus 70 % of the atmosphere, the latent heat of vaporization corresponding to a 20 % increase in
water vapor per 3 K
warming (linearized for current conditions), and a little land surface; expressed as W * yr per m ^ 2 * K (a convenient unit), I got about 7.093.
Corresponding time for surface + tropospheric equilibration: given 3 K
warming (including feedbacks) per ~ 3.7 W / m2 forcing (this includes the effects of feedbacks): 10 years per heat capacity of ~ 130 m layer of
ocean (~ heat capacity of 92 or 93 m of liquid
water spread
over the whole globe)
Vertical diffusion is slower, but happens
over most of the
oceans, while downward advection of anomalously
warm water happens in fewer spots but is faster (the North Atlantic, «Mode»
water formation regions north of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, shelf
water formation in Antarctica).
Consenquently, the associated SST pattern is slightly cooler in the deep convection upwelling regions of the Equitorial Pacific and the Indian
Ocean, strongly cooler in the nearest deep convection source region of the South Atlantic near Africa and the Equator,
warm over the bulk of the North Atlantic, strongly
warmer where the gulf stream loses the largest portion of its heat near 50N 25W, and strongly cooler near 45N 45W, which turns out to be a back - eddy of the Gulf Stream with increased transport of cold
water from the north whenever the Gulf Stream is running quickly.
The currents flowing across the sill bring
warm Atlantic
water into the polar sea, and although the net gain each year is tiny,
over thousands of years it is enough to make the Arctic
Ocean very much
warmer.
However, at the same time, there's been the steady increase in subtropical
ocean surface temperatures in the Atlantic
Warm Pool, leading to record
water temperatures off the US east coast in winter, which tends to fuel more extreme storms (via the increase in
water vapor pressure
over the
warmer ocean).
Water from the melting ice makes the oceans rise, only a fraction of an inch a year but, in the fullness of time, enough to let the currents increase their flow over the northern sill, bringing ever more warm water into the gelid Ar
Water from the melting ice makes the
oceans rise, only a fraction of an inch a year but, in the fullness of time, enough to let the currents increase their flow
over the northern sill, bringing ever more
warm water into the gelid Ar
water into the gelid Arctic.
Air -
water heat flux may not significantly affect the temperature of the
ocean, but it does affect the temperature of the atmosphere — as in the air
over Europe is
warmed by the North Atlantic Drift.
It seems that those who fear AGW (or at least some of them) do admit that it is not realistic to expect a planetary atmosphere such as ours to
warm up
oceans of
water over the timescale required by AGW theory because of the huge volume and density of that
water and thus the heat storage differentials.
Though hurricanes strenthen when moving
over warmer water, this is merely due to the fact that the horizontal temperature gradient of the atmosphere is not as steep, i.e. the temperature differential between the
water and the atmosphere increases as the storm hits tropical
waters; it is not the
ocean temperature per se that drives the hurricane.
Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by
warm water that reaches the ice when winds
over the
ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Over most of the
oceans, surface
water is
warmer, and so less dense, than the
water beneath it.
Most interesting is that the about monthly variations correlate with the lunar phases (peak on full moon) The Helsinki Background measurements 1935 The first background measurements in history; sampling data in vertical profile every 50 - 100m up to 1,5 km; 364 ppm underthe clouds and above Haldane measurements at the Scottish coast 370 ppmCO2 in winds from the sea; 355 ppm in air from the land Wattenberg measurements in the southern Atlantic
ocean 1925-1927 310 sampling stations along the latitudes of the southern Atlantic oceans and parts of the northern; measuring all oceanographic data and CO2 in air over the sea; high ocean outgassing crossing the warm water currents north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly av
ocean 1925-1927 310 sampling stations along the latitudes of the southern Atlantic
oceans and parts of the northern; measuring all oceanographic data and CO2 in air
over the sea; high
ocean outgassing crossing the warm water currents north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly av
ocean outgassing crossing the
warm water currents north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic
ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly av
ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2
over sea surface in northern Atlantic
Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly av
Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2
over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly average
The record
warm sea surface and atmosphere held a never before seen excess of
water vapor and moisture in suspension — primarily
over the Equatorial
Ocean zones.
As a consequence, cold air from the North American continent traveled farther
over ice, instead of
warmer ocean waters, remaining cold until it hit
warmer open
water in the middle of Labrador Sea.
There is some discussion
over what effect greenhouse
warming will have on
ocean currents, particularly the Gulf Stream, which
warms Europe with tropical
water.
The authors postulated that this
warm salty
water (WSW) layer, situated beneath the colder surface freshwater in the North Atlantic, generated
ocean convective available potential energy (OCAPE)
over decades at the end of HS1.
A2) The Sun is the source of all this energy as it is the hottest thing around, and by the greenhouse explanation above the GHGs redistribute insolation into the
ocean until their heating from above and the tendency for
warm water to rise once again cancel each other out and the new stable (w.r.t. averaging
over 24h) vertical gradient is attained.
More
ocean in the SH, more land in the NH,
water absorbs more solar, more
warming over land, land use impact?
There's less
water over land than
ocean so look for more
warming over land than
water.