Seaports With Sea Level Change - 34

Fig. 1 Desert Water Is A Problem

I. Current Events

So, how is it that the largest desert on Earth (the one that gets less rainfall per square mile than the Sahara Desert does) become a danger to seaports around the world because of the water flowing from it?

Answer: The Photon Current events (The Photon Current, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9).

How is it that this is not commonly understood? Answer: The water media (The Warming Science Commentariat, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15).

So, how is it that the largest desert's water was not explained to us as a threat to us? Answer: The largest desert on Earth was misrepresented in our mommy and daddy's schoolin' textbooks (Antarctica 2.0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 [& supplements A, B, C, D, E, F]; Greenland 2.0, 2; The Oceans 2.0, 2).

And so now, we are going to "take a bath" because of that past.

Anyway, on to the usual menu for this type of post ...

II. Appendix Menu

(HTML) Single Coastline Countries	(HTML) Multi Coastline Countries	RLR-Coastline Graphs	Slc-Coastline Graphs
Appendix: A-C	Appendix: A-C	Appendix: A-C	Appendix: A-C
Appendix: D-G	Appendix: D-G	Appendix: D-G	Appendix: D-G
Appendix: H-L	Appendix: H-L	Appendix: H-L	Appendix: H-L
Appendix: M-O	Appendix: M-O	Appendix: M-O	Appendix: M-O
Appendix: P-T	Appendix: P-T	Appendix: P-T	Appendix: P-T
Appendix: U-Z	Appendix: U-Z	Appendix: U-Z	Appendix: U-Z

The problem of endangered seaports is not addressed when the imaginary (and false) notion of "the bathtub model" is habitually used in the warming commentariat media.

Fig. 2 Who's Number One?

But the problem of endangered seaports is addressed when the true natures of seawater and ice shelves are used in place of the mythical bathtub model.

The now over a decade old (but too little used) TEOS-10 international standard also provides better tools for grasping what must be grasped in order to understand the ongoing and increasing dangers to world seaports (which is the nature of 'ocean heat', a.k.a. 'potential enthalpy', beyond what cannot be seen but can be felt in more ways than one).

III. Turbulence ... It's Not Just For Water Currents Anymore

The graphs in the two "Graphs" columns in the appendix menu above detail a turbulent mix of heat events way down below the surface, because the TEOS-10 software is capable of keeping things straight even in turbulence:

"While in situ temperature is an observed variable, its dependence on pressure (even for adiabatic variations of pressure at constant salinity) and its non-conservative nature under turbulent mixing processes have led to the adoption of Conservative Temperature in order to approximate the “heat content” per unit mass of seawater. It is Conservative Temperature that is now used as the temperature axis of “salinity–temperature” diagrams and as the model's temperature variable in ocean models (McDougall et al., 2021) because it is approximately conserved under mixing processes: the amount of non-conservation is typically 2 orders of magnitude less than that of potential temperature."

(A thermodynamic potential of seawater in terms of Absolute Salinity, Conservative Temperature, and in situ pressure, emphasis added). 

Photons can go unimpeded, up, down, or sideways in turbulent currents (hot to cold thermodynamics).

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