In Search Of Ocean Heat - 13

Fig. 1 The Photon Current

In the previous post of this series the ice-melt temperatures related to Ocean Heat Content (OHC) were graphed for the six Regions/Areas along the coast of Antarctica.

Seawater temperatures were likewise detailed on the same graphs  (In Search Of Ocean Heat - 12).

That effort was in response to a couple of scientific papers which were misleading, but I did not delve into all of the most basic reasons for those kinds of misleading papers. 

The most basic reason for the erroneous concepts about OHC is the failure to apply the principles of TEOS-10 in the first place.

OHC in the official international oceanography nomenclature (TEOS-10) is "Potential Enthalpy":

"it is perfectly valid to talk of potential enthalpy, h⁰, as the 'heat content'

(Potential Enthalpy: A Conservative Oceanic Variable for Evaluating Heat Content and Heat Fluxes, McDougall 2003, pp. 945-46, emphasis added; cf. TEOS-10).

So, today I am presenting improved graphs which are supported by HTML tables that contain the TEOS-10 values which the graphs were generated from. (you can generate your own graphs from that HTML data)

The second basic reason for scientific papers that misrepresent the nature of OHC is the ignoring the application of Quantum Physics to oceanography (Fig. 1, cf. The Ghost Photons, 2, 3).

Anyway, here are links to the appendices containing the update graphs together with the supporting data in HTML tables (Amundsen Sea, Bellingshausen Sea, Indian Ocean, Ross Sea, Weddell Sea, Western Pacific Ocean).

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

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RIP David Crosby

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