To accumulate heat means to gather or store heat over time.
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[T] he atmosphere admits of the entrance of the solar heat, but checks its exit; and the result is a tendency to
accumulate heat at the surface of the planet.
This new research combines measurements of ocean heat, land and atmosphere warming and ice melting to find that our climate system continued to
accumulate heat through to 2008.
By yesterday afternoon, the week's
accumulated heat made the spa feel like you'd turned the gas on — it was very tropical.
«Also, if the atmosphere is
n't accumulating heat at the rate forecast by the models, then the theoretical positive climate feedbacks which were expected to amplify the CO2 effect won't be as large,» McNider said.
While measurements of ocean heat going down to 700 metres have showed declining heat accumulation, von Schuckmann 2009 shows that measurements of ocean heat going down to 2000 metres find the oceans have been
steadily accumulating heat at 0.77 W / m2 from 2003 to 2008.
Combined with the results of Murphy 2009 who finds the
planet accumulating heat right to 2003, we now see a picture of unbroken global warming.
John showed that when you consider the full body of evidence, it is evident that the oceans are
indeed accumulating heat thereby contributing to global sea level rise.
You start sweating before you even turn a wheel, and it only gets worse from there, the
laps accumulating heat in your body, your helmet, those long corners seemingly lasting forever, all made worse if you have someone chasing you down as I did!
What's more, according to Chin and Sillett, the transfusion tissue
also accumulates heat and drives transpiration.
Some climate scientists see compelling arguments
for accumulating heat and added water vapor fueling the kinds of turbulent storms that spawn tornadoes.
The fact that I can point to the majority of models not predicting this fast of a decline, and you can point out a few that say that it might have started by now and it hasn't, totally ignores the fact that either way, sea ice is diminishing and that is consistent
with accumulating heat in the Earth's climate system.
The
latter accumulates heat inside by physically preventing escape of hot air thereby concentrating it in a confined space.
Question based on Sullivan's explanation of carbon dioxide's role as glass in greenhouse and the inability to
vent accumulated heat to the atmosphere: If a man - made greenhouses on earth must have a venting system to avoid killing the plants protected within, what is the natural venting system for our planet - greenhouse?
In fact, the combination of a powerful El Niño event and the sudden re-emergence of
accumulated heat from the tropical West Pacific has created unprecedented warmth over a vast expanse of ocean, stretching thousands of miles from coastal Peru to the Gulf of Alaska.
This begs the question: «If the
worlds accumulated heat can be so quickly transported down to below 3000m in the Southern Oceans then why doesn't it also take carbon dioxide with it?»
«There was a lot of open ocean water and we saw periods of very slow ice growth in late October and into November, because the water had a lot
of accumulated heat that had to be dissipated before ice could grow.
GHG's continue to
accumulate heat in the atmosphere from the time they're released to the time they get scrubbed out by natural processes.
We also know from satellite observations that the planet is
accumulating heat due to a global energy imbalance (measured at the top of the atmosphere).
Empirical measurements of the Earth's heat content show the planet is
still accumulating heat and global warming is still happening.
While measurements of ocean heat going down to 700 metres have showed declining heat accumulation, von Schuckmann 2009 shows that measurements of ocean heat going down to 2000 metres find the oceans have been
steadily accumulating heat at 0.77 W / m2 from 2003 to 2008.
For 2004 — 2011, the data show the
oceans accumulating heat at a rate of 0.19 W / m2 (3x1021 J / yr) in the upper 300 meters, 0.30 W / m2 (5x1021 J / yr) in the upper 700 meters, and 0.56 W / m2 (9x1021 J / yr) in the upper 1,800 meters.