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This post deals with an erroneous statement about ocean heat flux:
"Seawater generally forms stratified layers with lighter waters near the surface and denser waters at greater depth. This stable configuration acts as a barrier to water mixing that impacts the efficiency of vertical exchanges of heat ..."
(Increasing ocean stratification over the past half-century). They don't seem to realize that "heat" in seawater is transferred by infrared photons.
Heat transfer in the ocean, like all other heat transfers in natural bodies of water, takes place in the space within and between molecules and atoms ("Electromagnetic waves [photons] travel through space").
All such ocean heat transfers are defined and described by the Second law of Thermodynamics:
"A simple statement of the law is that heat always flows spontaneously from hotter to colder regions of matter (or 'downhill' in terms of the temperature gradient)."
(Wikipedia, emphasis added). "Heat content" in the ocean is also called "potential enthalpy" (it is perfectly valid to talk of potential enthalpy, h0,as the 'heat content' ..."; In Search Of Ocean Heat - 15; Patterns: Conservative Temperature & Potential Enthalpy - 4).
Just sayin' ...
The previous post in this series is here.
