Sentences with phrase «warm surface water up»

The cold water sets up wind and current feedbacks that piles warm surface water up against Australia and Indonesia.

Turbulent deep ocean flows surface and set up wind and current responses that again extend the cold tongue and piles warm surface water up against Australia and Indonesia.

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This is accomplished with a powerful blast of warm air that quickly breaks up the layer of surface water on a userâ $ ™ s hands for quick removal and evaporation.

The only major potential drawback of baby wipe warmers is the simple fact that they are a piece of electrical equipment that heats up and is often in close contact to water and wet surfaces.

However, in their wake, hurricanes set up large - amplitude waves that mingle warm surface water with colder deep water, says climate scientist Matthew Huber of Purdue University.

Chan says that lighter warm water creates a cap over the colder depths, making it less likely that deeper waters — where everything from «plankton to whale poop» sucks up oxygen — will rise to mix with the oxygenated surface.

Heat that stays at the surface will ultimately result in greater sea - level rise as warmer water expands more readily as it heats up.

So, for example, a big part of what drives a hurricane is the fact that you've got a lot of warm water near the surface of the ocean that is transferring heat into the air, and that's what's moving up, and that is a big part of then what's propelling the entire bigger storm system.

About 19 months after the wind churned the ocean, cycling warm deep waters upward and sending the cold surface waters down, the Totten ice shelf was noticeably thinner and had sped up.

«During Norwegian winters, sea surface water is colder than at depth, so by lifting warmer water to the surface using bubble curtains, we can prevent the fjords from icing up», he says.

Furthermore, a deeper upper layer of warm surface water may weaken the cold tongue if the Ekman pumping doesn't reach down below the thermocline to bring up colder water, and weakened trade winds would have a similar effect through reduced Ekman pumping near the equator.

With the removal of the warm surface waters, an upwelling current is created in the east Pacific Ocean, bringing cold water up from deeper levels.

During normal conditions, trade winds blow to the west across the tropical Pacific Ocean, piling up warm surface water in the western Pacific, and cold, deeper water rises up, or upwells, off the west coast of South America.

These strong, constant winds push and drag the warm surface water westward, «piling» it up and holding it in the western Pacific Ocean basin.

The CO2 concentration of the atmosphere is going up continuously, and so it invades the ocean as it equilibrates with warm surface waters.

Think of what would happen if you could pump cold deep water up to the surface, increasing the air / sea temperature gradient and warming the water; that would give you an anomalously large ocean heat uptake.

2 — previously warm saline surface water, now wind cooled (cold) saline surface water sinks to depths up to 2000m.

Furthermore, a deeper upper layer of warm surface water may weaken the cold tongue if the Ekman pumping doesn't reach down below the thermocline to bring up colder water, and weakened trade winds would have a similar effect through reduced Ekman pumping near the equator.

Normally, a hurricane sucks up cold water from deeper layers, cooling the sea surface and weakening the hurricane, but in the case of deep warm water layers, the hurricane intensifies because it is sucking up warm water.

Independent computer models (about 23 or so world - wide, I believe), generally show a warming of the surface and even more in the tropsophere in the tropics due to increased water vapor (warm the air up and it has more available water vapor (a greenhouse gas)..

Water at the surface that is below the equilibrium temperature will be warmed mainly radiatively until it warms up again.

I recall mention that Katrina was unusual because while crossing the Gulf «Ring Current» the deeper water pulled up by the hurricane was almost as warm as the sea surface, so the deeper water fed almost as much heat energy into the storm as the surface.

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).

The real problem here is that this AMO explanation was picked up and broadcast by the press in a very uncritical manner, usually in these terms: «Surface waters of the Atlantic ocean warm up then cool down in long, subtle cycles.

The ocean's surface begins to warm, but before it can heat up much, the surface water is mixed down and replaced by colder water from below.

Hurricanes stirr up the sea (mixing or Ekman pumping), and if there is a thin warm surface layer, colder water underneath will be brought up, and hence give rise to lower surface temperatures (SST).

Would the incoming insolation go to warming up the waters surface (and shading the depths) or would it go to converting H2O and CO2 to sugar?

The decade - long analysis showed that as the surface water of the oceans warmed up, phytoplankton biomass declined.

We also know that while the ocean surface wasn't anomalously warm (it was still about 30 °C which is fairly normal for that part of the planet), the water up to at least 100 meters bellow the surface was 4 — 5 °C (7 — 9 °F) warmer than average.

All the sea surface water, warmed by the tropical sun, is blown to the west of the Pacific and, to compensate part of the imbalance, cooler deep ocean waters well up on the western shores of Latin America (and spread all the way up to the Solomon Islands).

Most interesting is that the about monthly variations correlate with the lunar phases (peak on full moon) The Helsinki Background measurements 1935 The first background measurements in history; sampling data in vertical profile every 50 - 100m up to 1,5 km; 364 ppm underthe clouds and above Haldane measurements at the Scottish coast 370 ppmCO2 in winds from the sea; 355 ppm in air from the land Wattenberg measurements in the southern Atlantic ocean 1925-1927 310 sampling stations along the latitudes of the southern Atlantic oceans and parts of the northern; measuring all oceanographic data and CO2 in air over the sea; high ocean outgassing crossing the warm water currents north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly average

Water takes longer to heat up and cool down than does the air or land, so ocean warming is considered to be a better indicator of global warming than measurements of global atmospheric temperatures at the Earth's surface.

Even if ALL the OCEAN ICE around the POLAR REGIONS does «melt», the newly warmed sub-artic regions, verdant with streams and rivers, will take up much of the release to increase the proportion of FRESH LIQUID water available on a now EXTENDED verdant land surface.

Then some mysterious combination of flagging trades, QBO, and the up and downwelling effects of Rossby and Kelvin waves sloshing back and forth across the Pacific; suddenly releases this mechanically submerged warm water eastward across the Pacific ocean surface.

Um... while the oceans as a whole would have to cool, the sea surface would have to warm up substantially in order to transfer lots of heat to the air (and in order to warm up substantially, I suppose there would have to be reduced circulation with cold deeper waters).

«once you remove a large heat flow, for example by letting all the water boil away, the surface heats up» So, Eli is saying, if absorptive material is added (to the atmosphere) the surface cools; if absorptive material is removed, the surface warms.

If ocean oscillations are as powerful a climate driver as the anti-CO2 alarmists claim then this graph suggests a simple story: that cold Pacific surface waters swallowed up a big gulp of warmth from 1940 - 1970, which the PDO then belched back up during its warm - phase in the 80s and 90s.

Stronger easterlies in the Pacific spin up the gyres in both hemispheres and Ekman pumping in those regions intensifies, bringing warmer surface waters to depth.

Global surface temperatures in the last few years have received a bump in recent years because of a large El Niñ0 event, which brought warm water up from the depths of the Pacific ocean and released the energy into the atmosphere.

AGW climate scientists seem to ignore that while the earth's surface may be warming, our atmosphere above 10,000 ft. above MSL is a refrigerator that can take water vapor scavenged from the vast oceans on earth (which are also a formidable heat sink), lift it to cold zones in the atmosphere by convective physical processes, chill it (removing vast amounts of heat from the atmosphere) or freeze it, (removing even more vast amounts of heat from the atmosphere) drop it on land and oceans as rain, sleet or snow, moisturizing and cooling the soil, cooling the oceans and building polar ice caps and even more importantly, increasing the albedo of the earth, with a critical negative feedback determining how much of the sun's energy is reflected back into space, changing the moment of inertia of the earth by removing water mass from equatorial latitudes and transporting this water vapor mass to the poles, reducing the earth's spin axis moment of inertia and speeding up its spin rate, etc..

Vaporization rate increases with vapor pressure, so that as the surface temperature warms up, increasingly large amounts of energy are transferred to water vapor instead of more temperature increase — and that leads in turn to more clouds (blocking the sun and transferring energy to the upper troposphere) and rainfall.

Harvey's rapid intensification from a tropical depression to an 85 - mile - per - hour hurricane in less than 24 hours was due to favorable conditions — warm water and low wind shear [29]-- in the Gulf of Mexico, where sea surface temperatures were up to 2.7 - 7.2 °F (1.5 - 4 °C) above the 1961 - 1990 average.

Despite higher than normal surface temperatures and heat contents of ocean waters where the storms developed, evidence is lacking that global warming is revving them up.

But as they grow, their strong winds often pick up seawater, churning the oceans and moving the warmest waters deep below the surface.

The hurricane churned up water 100 or even 200 meters below the surface, said Trenberth, but this water was still warm — meaning that the storm could keep growing and strengthening.

Because only very cold surface water is able to sink, it is simple to understand that the deep ocean can never warm up, regardless of how warm the surface ocean around the world may become.

So if on shined that laser on a square meter for say 10 mins then the 1 mm depth of square meter could warm by about 1 C. Rather than water one could also heat up anything with a thin surface [and assuming one reduces the heat loss] So thin sheet of paper which absorbs [has heat capacity of whatever wavelength one is using could heated within mins of exposure.

2] here is why US was WET, WET, WET: before Gibraltar straights and the English Chanel opened — there was no «Gulf - stream» Now, as soon as the surface water in the Mexican gulf warms up — GOES east,, as on a convayer - belt — no time to produce enough moisture in the air.

When ENSO is in La Niña, the Pacific trade winds blow true and strong causing sun warmed surface water to pile up against Australia and Indonesia.

ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) variability is linked to the spinning up or down of the South Pacific gyre — as it brings more or less cold Southern Ocean water northward — along the Peruvian coast — to more or less displace warm surface water and initiate upwelling.