Quantum Oceanography - 12

The 'take-off' (find the surfer)

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" (Albert Einstein)

In a previous post of this series this question was pondered:

"This raises the question, do the 'salinity' elements in seawater emit the infrared photons that melt glacial ice, or do the h₂o molecules in seawater do it alone?

Today's graphs are in appendices: Sector A, Sector B, Sector C, Sector D, Sector E, and Sector F (they may help answer the question).

These graphs concern different areas of Antarctica's glacial grounding lines (Fig. 1, Antarctica 2.0 - 11).

They indicate 'maybe both' (i.e. both the h₂o molecules and the other 'salinity' molecules in seawater may all emit infrared photons which enter the glacial ice's h₂o molecules and cause a heat increase until melting takes place..."

 (Quantum Oceanography - 10). One reason that the concept of "infrared photons" was featured in that question session is that "ocean heat" means "potential enthalpy" in oceanographic nomenclature (McDougall, 2003).

In general terms seawater is generally about 3.5% "salinity" (Cl⁻, Na⁺, SO²⁴⁻, Mg²⁺, Ca²⁺, and K⁺) and 96.5% water (H₂O, ibid).

Little wonder, then, that the patterns which Conservative Temperature (CT), Potential Enthalpy (h^o), and photon count (moles) are the same patterns, nor that the Absolute Salinity (SA) pattern does not match them (Patterns: Conservative Temperature & Potential Enthalpy, 2, 3, 4, 5) ... (cf. Appendix SA; Southern, Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, Indian, and Four Panes).

The CT, h^o, and photon count (moles) patterns are heat-energy oriented, and they match each other in the graphs, while the "salinity" (SA) pattern is based on chemical content and does not match the ocean heat pattern.

Thus, it does not seem unreasonable to associate ocean heat (h^o), infrared photon quantity in seawater (moles), and temperature (CT) together.

Likewise, SA and thermosteric volume are not related because the percentage of SA compared to the percentage of h₂o in seawater is very different.

The next post in this series is here, them previous post in this series is here.

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"Your heart is like an ocean, mysterious and dark." (lyric from video below)

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