Sentences with phrase «sun warmed surface layer»

The oceans have a sun warmed surface layer overlaying the cold depths.

These turbulent currents don't generally emerge through a sun warmed surface layer.

The deep currents interact with a sun warmed surface layer that is a hundred or more metres deep.

Not exact matches

The sun's rays warm the top layer of the ocean down to 10's of meters below the surface.

In addition, if the warming had been caused by an increase in the Sun's energy, we would expect to see warming throughout the layers of the atmosphere, from the surface all the way up through the stratosphere.

With the temperature of the deep oceans explained, all the sun is doing is warm the surface layer from ~ 275K to ~ 290K.

Then, especially when there is excessive cloud cover over the oceans, the Sun's energy absorbed above the clouds can actually make its way down to the ocean surface (and below) warming the oceans by non-radiative processes, not by direct solar radiation which mostly passes through the thin surface layer and could barely raise the mean temperature of an asphalt paved Earth above -35 C.

«A second smoking gun is that if the sun were responsible for global warming, we would expect to see warming throughout all layers of the atmosphere, from the surface all the way up to the upper atmosphere (stratosphere).

So the temperature of the deep oceans (presently ~ 275K) is set by heat from inside the earth before the sun starts warming the surface layer.

If the warm water heated by the sun is driven by the wind into the deeper layers, and also bringing colder deep waters to the surface, the surface stays cool, the heat is transferred down, and La Nina works its cooling magic on the globe.

Now the sun would be expected to set up an undisturbed gradient from cold at the bottom to warm at the top but it does not because upward radiation from the surface plus energy drawn upwards by evaporation at the surface creates a layer 1 mm deep near the surface (the subskin) which is 0.3 C cooler than the water below it.

Apologies if this has already been stated, but my view on decreased Arctic ice cover is: - 1, as Judith pointed out, when ice is at a minimum the sun is already so low in the sky that there is no noticeable change to albedo, 2 when there is ice cover warm water is kept at depth by differences in salinity, When there is open water, storms mix the haline layers bringing warm water to the surface where it can more readily radiate it's energy into outer space.

Seriously though, considering our lack of measurement continuity it is conceivable (if not entirely believable) that energy from the sun that heated a surface that then emitted IR that would have been radiated to space but instead was absorbed because of the slight increase in bandwidth coverage that a few extra CO2 molecules have provided and then emitted to Earth has been transferred through the sea surface unnoticed (cough, cough) and warmed subsurface layers.

Somewhere, perhaps as much as a kilometer out, she rolled onto her back and basked in the sun and the warm surface layer of the lake like some contented otter.