Wednesday 26 March 2014

How the ocean reins in global warming

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2014/how-the-ocean-reins-in-global-warming.html / climate change response increasing anthropogenic emissions global warming greenhouse gases gasses excess heat accumulates Earth system thermal energy goes lower atmosphere land landmass Yavor Kostov graduate student Program in Atmospheres Oceans and ClimatePAOC MIT Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences EAPS saturated heat ocean’s capacity store heat global warming green house greenhouse gas CO2 carbon dioxide hot topic climate science climate models oceanic ocean heat uptake high-latitude regions North Atlantic Southern Ocean store heat different depths papers paper published Geophysical Research Letters predictions global warming over the coming centuries ocean circulation deep overturning circulation North Atlantic Ocean AMOC transports buries atmospheric heat Kyle Armour EAPS postdoc John Marshall MIT professor oceanography various assumptions major ocean feature model predictions Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC projections deeper stronger AMOC capacity store heat delay long-term global warming stronger overturning circulation climate predictions cloud responses improve predictions future warming real-world measurements geographical location depth geographical location ocean heat uptake climate change /

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