On Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction - 48

Ocean Areas

I. Forward

The previous post in this series featured latitude "layers" (a horizontal look at variations in ocean water characteristics along latitude bands). 

In today's post, the graphs of TEOS-10 concepts Conservative Temperature, Absolute Salinity, and Thermal Expansion and Contraction are provided for several Ocean areas on an ocean by ocean basis.

Those graphs are contained in three appendices (Arctic/Atlantic; Indian / Southern; and Pacific).

The thirty-three (33) depth 'levels' of each graph reach from the surface to the bottom, but they are separated into three different colors.

Each color-section contains  11 rows of lines, each line representing a particular depth. 

There is an "About" section at the top of each appendix page, pointing out more specifics about the depths.

II. Different Zones

The WOD Zones in the layered approach in the previous post of this series are not the same as those in this per-ocean approach (On Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction - 47).

Thus, the lines will not be the same.

They are mean averages of the zones of one ocean area, whereas the layered approach contains zones from different oceans at some locations.

The Southern ocean data will not be the same as the lines in layers 14 and 15 in the previous post's layered approach

III. Same Results

The resulting principles are the same however, which is that thermosteric sea level change is not the major cause of sea level rise, nor is it even a major cause.

The previous post has links to more details about thermal expansion and contraction.

But the basic exercise is to calculate the mass/volume of a depth level, each one of the 33 individual slices of the total WOD Zone, then calculate the expansion and contraction of that slice (length x width x height = volume).

Then apply the temperature changes and thermal expansion coefficient to each volume slice.

Repeat often because change is real (Sea Ice Today).

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

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