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The planetary heat budget will be imbalanced, such that the seas will warm and rise.
Additionally the oceanic warming and cooling cycles introduce constant, rapid and substantial changes not yet reflected in any models and which invalidate any averaged global estimates of
the planetary heat budget.
The second step involved calculating Earth's energy balance for this time period, using estimates of greenhouse gas concentrations extracted from air bubbles in ice cores, and incorporating astronomical factors, known as Milankovitch Cycles, that effect
the planetary heat budget.
Not exact matches
Since the
heat capacity of the land surface is so small compared to the ocean, any significant imbalance in the
planetary radiation
budget (the solar in minus the longwave out) must end up increasing the
heat content in the ocean.
Extra
heat from all sources — including the interior of the planet, fossil fuel burning, nuclear fission, solar radiance, north - south asymetry and — the big one — cloud radiative forcing — is retained in
planetary systems as longwave emissions and shortwave reflectance adjusts to balance the global energy
budget.
Althoug this period of overlapping ocean
heat and ERBS data is from 1993 to 2003 — it shows how ocean
heat content is constrained by the
planetary energy
budget as it must be.