Sentences with phrase «overall heat content of the oceans»

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Ocean heat content variability is thus a critical variable for detecting the effects of the observed increase in greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere and for resolving the Earth's overall energy balance.

The time series shows an overall trend of increasing heat content in the World Ocean with interannual and inter-decadal variations superimposed on this trend.

The time series shows an overall trend of increasing heat content in the World Ocean with interannual and inter-decadal variations superimposed on this trend.

Now of course I well understand the issues with ocean heat content measurements, especially prior to 2003 or so, but I think there is enough reliability to give you a good picture of the overall energy imbalance effects rippling down to the atmosphere and oceans as reflected by the 1 w / m ^ 2 TOA imbalance induced by the rising levels of greenhouse gases.

Elsewhere on this site there is a graph of overall ocean heat content which is building indicating that while the sst is decreasing slightly the overall ocean is warming, It is likely that this overall ocean warming which has nothing to do with changes to the atmospheric temperature because it is the sea surface and not the deep ocean that is in contact with the atmosphere is what is resulting in the overall rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration which is currenly increasing at 2ppmv / year.