Sentences with phrase «which ocean reservoirs»

It has become clear over the past few years that the importance of Southern Ocean upwelling for our understanding of climate rivals that of North Atlantic downwelling, because it controls the rate at which ocean reservoirs of heat and carbon communicate with the surface.

Not exact matches

A newly discovered reservoir of rare earths, which are needed for high - tech, automotive and renewable energy applications, may remain on the ocean floor for some time

It is our hope that wider consideration of this feedback loop and the timing of its onset, will improve our understanding of the extent to which Earth's atmosphere - ocean oxygen reservoir is regulated.»

Water pressure and thermal shock are intense as oil from the reservoir bubbles up into the well at 140 degrees Fahrenheit, only to hit near - freezing temperatures at the ocean floor, which can cause it to coagulate in the pipes.

The ocean, which covers 70 % of the planet, is a huge reservoir of carbon dioxide and heat.

Professor Wunsch: 25:43 The ocean is the major reservoir into which carbon dioxide goes when it comes out of the atmosphere or to from which it is re-emitted to the the atmosphere.

Prof. Wunsch says: The ocean is the major reservoir into which carbon dioxide goes when it comes out of the atmosphere or to from which it is re-emitted to the the atmosphere.

ENSO events, for example, can warm or cool ocean surface temperatures through exchange of heat between the surface and the reservoir stored beneath the oceanic mixed layer, and by changing the distribution and extent of cloud cover (which influences the radiative balance in the lower atmosphere).

ENSO events, for example, can warm or cool ocean surface temperatures through exchange of heat between the surface and the reservoir stored beneath the oceanic mixed layer, and by changing the distribution and extent of cloud cover (which influences the radiative balance in the lower atmosphere).

Setting aside the effects of the deep ocean, etc, — ie just using a single unified reservoir's heat capacity — and using only fast feedbacks (I didn't introduce any slow feedbacks anywhere in this particular series of comments), the expectation based on physics is that each delayed response T curve (each of which must correspond to a different value of heat capacity, for the same ECS) must have a maximum or minimum when it intersects the instantaneous response curve (my Teq value)-- maximum if it was below Teq before, minimum if it was above — because it is always going toward Teq.

I wrote up a simple model in excel which puts CO2 into the atmosphere and takes it into the ocean according to various reservoir sizes and ventilation times.

Probably the partitioning he wanted is among the atmosphere, the terrestrial «reservoir» and the surface ocean buffer, which would be 560 / (560 +900 +2190) = 15 %, which is still just within his range of 14 - 30 %.

So, all the energy released when water condenses is reabsorbed when it evaporates again - unless what's being suggesting is that there is this massive reservoir of evaporated water in the atmosphere and its been condensing over the last 40 - 50 years, releasing energy which has been heating the ocean.

This finds stronger and solid footing in Article 5.1, which states, «Parties should take action to conserve and enhance, as appropriate, sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse gases» (i.e. «biomass, forests and oceans, and other terrestrial, coastal and marine ecosystems»).

And I'll mention this again, given that it has been overlooked by Salby's brave work; David Stockwell has a new paper which relies on the variations of TSI above and below a period average to determine GAT, with the oceans acting as heat reservoirs; see his comment here:

QUOTE: «The human fraction in the atmosphere (FA) immediately increases to 14 % but that is rapidly reduced by the residence time which replaces the original «human» CO2 molecules by «natural» CO2 molecules from other reservoirs, mainly the (deep) oceans.

In seawater, CO2 interacts with water molecules to form carbonic acid, which reacts very quickly with the large reservoir of dissolved inorganic carbon — bicarbonate and carbonate ions — in the ocean.

Seasonal exchanges are huge: about 20 % of all CO2 in the atmosphere is exchanged between atmosphere and other reservoirs over the seasons, but as the exchanges with oceans and vegetation are countercurrent with temperature (vegetation in the NH dominates), the net result is only some 2 % change in the atmosphere over the seasons which is visible in the Mauna Loa curve.

[1975] Greenland, which is a small Antarctica, a polar landmass entirely surrounded by water, has an ocean to the south that remains as a vapor reservoir even when the ocean to the north freezes, so it retains its ice cap.

the melting ice is due to the warmer gulfstream, which collected warmth from the warming period which ended at ca. 2000 Climate on Earth is ruled, among others, by the Gleissberg solar / weather cycle http://blogs.24.com/henryp/2012/10/02/best-sine-wave-fit-for-the-drop-in-global-maximum-temperatures/ Those still pointing to melting ice and glaciers, as «proof» that it is (still) warming, and not cooling, should remember that there is a lag from energy - in and energy - out due to oceans acting as energy reservoirs..

Atmosphere is only a «vent» for the oceans, land (moisture) and land, which are the big reservoirs.

The average lag is a few hundred years, the time required for CO2, which is the dominant GHG feedback, to be flushed from surface reservoirs, mainly from the ocean.

I don't see that, with the oceans as a reservoir there should be some increase it temperature or OHC which is right inline with capacitance.

Professor Wunsch: 25:43 The ocean is the major reservoir into which carbon dioxide goes when it comes out of the atmosphere or to from which it is re-emitted to the the atmosphere.

This kind of situation where the ocean boils away can not happen here until the sun brigtens sufficiently which would take a billion years or longer, and the CO2 reservoir will be released until its supply is diminished.

The first is that he may be leaving out or underestimating the amount of atmospheric CO2 that will be redistribured to other earth CO2 reservoirs - particularly the oceans, and thus he is applying the sensitivity to an injection of CO2, which will significantly decline over time.

Prof. Wunsch says: The ocean is the major reservoir into which carbon dioxide goes when it comes out of the atmosphere or to from which it is re-emitted to the the atmosphere.

The five accessible reservoirs are the atmosphere, the land plants, the topsoil in which land plants grow, the surface layer of the ocean in which ocean plants grow, and our proved reserves of fossil fuels.

There are five reservoirs of carbon that are biologically accessible on a short time - scale, not counting the carbonate rocks and the deep ocean which are only accessible on a time - scale of thousands of years.