Sentences with phrase «total heat content of the ocean»

I would be suprised if the increased flow of cold water from the melting polar icecaps could decrease the total heat content of the oceans, given the amount of additional heat that must be in the oceans that is causing the coral bleaching episodes throughout the tropics.

So the total heat content of the oceans has double in the past 16 years?

To me the best and perhaps only way to make a strong case for AGW is to measure two simple things: radiation budget at the top of the atmosphere and total heat content of the ocean.

Accurate monitoring of deep ocean floor water temperatures is, in my opinion, the only way to really get a read on total heat content of the oceans.

Not exact matches

total ocean heat content to 2009 appears to be about 20 × 10 to the 22nd power J. which I take it means Levitus et.al could be ignoring 8 % or so of the heat accumulating in the ocean.

To calculate the Earth's total heat content, the authors used data of ocean heat content from the upper 700 metres.

One very important consideration to think about is that while surface temperature has a very high degree of variability, you do expect total ocean heat content to vary a great deal less in response to a constant forcing.

From 1992 to 2003, the decadal ocean heat content changes (blue), along with the contributions from melting glaciers, ice sheets, and sea ice and small contributions from land and atmosphere warming, suggest a total warming (red) for the planet of 0.6 ± 0.2 W / m2 (95 % error bars).

A total of 2.3 million salinity profiles were used in this analysis, about one - third of the amount of data used in the ocean heat content estimates in Section 5.2.2.

And so far, you still have not replied to my points in 156 and 231 that explain where the heat increase in the total system of ocean and atmosphere comes from and that demonstrates the physically impossibility of your main causal claim that all the ocean heat content increase since 2000 is merely due to a transfer of heat from the atmosphere, where you claim that all this heat was in the atmosphere in 1979.

The objective of our study was to quantify the consistency of near - global and regional integrals of ocean heat content and steric sea level (from in situ temperature and salinity data), total sea level (from satellite altimeter data) and ocean mass (from satellite gravimetry data) from an Argo perspective.

[Response: Theoretically you could have a change in ocean circulation that could cause a drop in global mean temperature even while the total heat content of the climate system increased.

However because we don't measure ocean heat content below 2000m (about half of the total volume), the OHC you cite applies to the top half volume only, so the average dT in this part of volume is just under 0.1 K (0.08) consistent with the estimates.

Also global heat content of the ocean (which constitutes 85 % of the total warming) has continued to rise strongly in this period, and ongoing warming of the climate system as a whole is supported by a very wide range of observations, as reported in the peer - reviewed scientific literature.

DK12 used ocean heat content (OHC) data for the upper 700 meters of oceans to draw three main conclusions: 1) that the rate of OHC increase has slowed in recent years (the very short timeframe of 2002 to 2008), 2) that this is evidence for periods of «climate shifts», and 3) that the recent OHC data indicate that the net climate feedback is negative, which would mean that climate sensitivity (the total amount of global warming in response to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 levels, including feedbacks) is low.

For the estimation of the total ocean heat content (OHC) a lesser precision would probably be almost as good, because errors of individual measurements always cancel to a large extent as long as the floats do not have common systematic errors.

I would suggest that a new proxy for heat being stored (or lost) from the Earth climate system be developed based on Total System Enthalpy, using a combination of moist enthalpy in the troposphere (after Pielke Sr.), ocean heat content, and total ice mass on the plTotal System Enthalpy, using a combination of moist enthalpy in the troposphere (after Pielke Sr.), ocean heat content, and total ice mass on the pltotal ice mass on the planet.

Since the IPCC's graph above up to 2003 shows that most of the energy from global warming is in the oceans, to a first approximation, Ocean Heat Content change since then is going to be close enough to the Total Heat Content change.

I've presented videos and gif animations to show the impacts of ENSO on ISCCP Total Cloud Amount data (with cautions about that dataset), CAMS - OPI precipitation data, NOAA's Trade Wind Index (5S - 5N, 135W - 180) anomaly data, RSS MSU TLT anomaly data, CLS (AVISO) Sea Level anomaly data, NCEP / DOE Reanalysis - 2 Surface Downward Shortwave Radiation Flux (dswrfsfc) anomaly data, Reynolds OI.v2 SST anomaly data and the NODC's ocean heat content data.

From 1992 to 2003, the decadal ocean heat content changes (blue), along with the contributions from melting glaciers, ice sheets, and sea ice and small contributions from land and atmosphere warming, suggest a total warming (red) for the planet of 0.6 ± 0.2 W / m2 (95 % error bars).

I inferred from your statement that since the heat capacity of the atmosphere is small compared to «say, the oceans» that (a) it [the atmosphere] won't store much energy, and (b) as such won't change the total «heat content» of the Earth, and (c) as such won't change the Earth's temperature.

New estimates of ocean heat content show a growing large discrepancy between ocean heat content integrated for the upper 300 vs 700 vs total depth.

The analysis by Trenberth and Fasullo (2010) of the total energy budget, which reveals missing energy in recent years because the ocean heat content has not kept up with the excess of incoming radiation at the top of atmosphere, reveals shortcomings in the total observing system.

Natural variability in air temperature (the lack of significant warming in the last decade) can be regarded as noise in the monotonic increase due to GHGs, but a one year total (ocean) heat content change can't.

Of course 70 % of the globe is covered in water, we should look for global changes by studying changes in total ocean heat content (TOHCOf course 70 % of the globe is covered in water, we should look for global changes by studying changes in total ocean heat content (TOHCof the globe is covered in water, we should look for global changes by studying changes in total ocean heat content (TOHC).

Thus in terms of impacts the problem is surface warming — which is described much better by actually measuring surface temperatures rather than total ocean heat content.

(By the way, neither has sea - level rise due to thermal expansion, because the thermal expansion coefficient is several times larger for warm surface waters than for the cold deep waters — again it is warming in the surface layers that counts, while the total ocean heat content tells us little about the amount of sea - level rise.)

A total of 2.3 million salinity profiles were used in this analysis, about one - third of the amount of data used in the ocean heat content estimates in Section 5.2.2.