Sentences with phrase «positive heat capacity»

; you answered: If by heat you mean thermal energy, yes, of course, as long as the object has a positive heat capacity.

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The warm air above nocturnal or polar inversions, or even stable air masses with small positive lapse rates, are warmer than otherwise because of heat capacity and radiant + convective heating during daytime and / or because of heating occurring at other latitudes / regions that is transported to higher latitudes / regions.

Re 9 wili — I know of a paper suggesting, as I recall, that enhanced «backradiation» (downward radiation reaching the surface emitted by the air / clouds) contributed more to Arctic amplification specifically in the cold part of the year (just to be clear, backradiation should generally increase with any warming (aside from greenhouse feedbacks) and more so with a warming due to an increase in the greenhouse effect (including feedbacks like water vapor and, if positive, clouds, though regional changes in water vapor and clouds can go against the global trend); otherwise it was always my understanding that the albedo feedback was key (while sea ice decreases so far have been more a summer phenomenon (when it would be warmer to begin with), the heat capacity of the sea prevents much temperature response, but there is a greater build up of heat from the albedo feedback, and this is released in the cold part of the year when ice forms later or would have formed or would have been thicker; the seasonal effect of reduced winter snow cover decreasing at those latitudes which still recieve sunlight in the winter would not be so delayed).

By relying on a GCM, Stott's analysis omits the reaction of the ocean's heat capacity, and the strong, positive and negative feedbacks of cloud albedo, two of the omissions in GCMs that also serve to negate the affirmative hypothesis.

Since we know that ECS must be greater than TCR (since ocean heat capacity is surely positive), and that F&G 2006 used a completely different method that G&F 2008, isn't it possible to statistically constraint the ECS result from F&G 2006 (or any other ECS estimate) with the PDF of TCR from G&F 2008?