tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142988674703954802.post7016110554575332679..comments2024-03-11T04:54:26.827-07:00Comments on THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds Southern Oceans are losing heatUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142988674703954802.post-57170344657017550722012-08-21T21:18:33.547-07:002012-08-21T21:18:33.547-07:00Thanks Steven, I appreciate and have learned much ...Thanks Steven, I appreciate and have learned much from your commentary on climate issues.MShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06714540297202434542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142988674703954802.post-69871252978688906092012-08-21T11:53:03.675-07:002012-08-21T11:53:03.675-07:00Ah, ocean heat content. Another of my favourite to...Ah, ocean heat content. Another of my favourite topics along with cloudiness data, jetstream behaviour and solar variability.<br /> <br />So the southern oceans are losing energy are they ?<br /> <br />Not recharging as they ‘should’.during La Nina events ?<br /> <br />Quelle surprise with higher global albedo resulting from more clouds and meridional / equatorward jets.<br /> <br />All those surges of cold air from the south pole to Australia, South America and South Africa creating more clouds and cutting off insolation.<br /> <br />Meanwhile the Arctic has pretty much lost its ‘hat’ and is pumping the remaining warmth in the north Atlantic out to space at a high rate.<br /> <br />In due course the bleed of energy to space from the Arctic is going to meet the reduced warmth from the southern oceans.<br /> <br />Not many warm seasons left, methinks.<br /><br /><br />“with extreme turbulent heat loss events, reaching −470 Wm−2 in the daily mean, associated with cold air flowing from higher southern latitudes. ”<br /> <br />Didn’t Marcel Leroux propose just such events sucking energy out from the oceans when his mobile polar highs moved equatorward into the mid latitudes ?<br /> <br />This paper suggests that such events can make the difference between net energy gain and net energy loss.<br /> <br />And such events happen more often and for longer when solar activity is low.<br /> <br />Stephen Wilde.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com