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| Saint Nino Is Weather, Man |
This series points out the impact of mythology on the small scientific community section that still utilizes morsels of mythology.
That has been elaborated upon (hopefully not in vain).
See for example (The El Nino/La Nina Chronicles, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) where it is pointed out that fables generated centuries ago are still used now as names for serious modern climate subjects.
There, in that cognitive fog, "Santa Claus" trumpets Xmas news from the halls of the El Nino/La Nina realm:
"When the Pacific Ocean sloshed warm water back toward Peru in the 1500's, the country's fisheries collapsed around Christmas time. A name was born: 'El Nino: The Christmas Child.'
"It's the little child of Christ who is causing problems,' said UC Davis Atmospheric Science Professor Ian Faloona ... 'The Chimu people of Peru believed that El Nino is still mystifying. 'Every 2-7 years, the winds seem to just weaken in the summertime,' said Faloona. 'I think its very mysterious how it evolves.'(The Mystery of El Nino)." [cf. Doing The Right Thing - Mithraism - 2]
(The El Nino/La Nina Chronicles; c.f. The Warming Science Commentariat, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. Those who are paid to be politically polluted trumpet 5th grade science ("the ocean surface water along the equator in the Pacific Ocean is warmer than...") is trumpeted by those pseudo-meteorologists who know what everyone else does ... "it's the economy Equator stupid" to no avail.
A discussion with AI brought out:
"The Pacific Ocean is warmer along the equator because the region receives direct, intense solar radiation per unit area than higher latitudes."
"The Atlantic Ocean surface is warmer along the equator because the region receives direct, intense sunlight year-round. This concentrated solar energy heats the surface water much more that at higher latitudes."
"Direct Solar Radiation. The sun hits the equator at a high, direct angle all year, doubling the heat input compared to polar regions."
(AI). The appendices I added to today's post (Appendix 1, 2, 3) deal with photon MOL increases and decreases in "heat content" and "heat flux" values in the world's ocean areas at various depths (Potential Enthalpy: A Conservative Oceanic Variable for Evaluating Heat Content and Heat Fluxes, McDougall 2003, pp. 945-46, emphasis added; cf. TEOS-10 gsw_CT_from_pt).
Thereby, potential enthalpy is presented as a valid calculation of the 'heat content' in the ocean, (in Joules) , which can also be used to calculate the MOL content of infrared photons within that measure of potential enthalpy.
The aforesaid appendices generally show that: 1) anywhere in the oceans, the heat content (a.k.a. photon "currents") is constantly changing as photons are absorbed and emitted, and 2) the deeper levels in some cases have more MOL quantity than levels above them.
The previous post in this series is here.
