On Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction - 50

It's another 'first'

I. Then

In the previous post of this series graphs were presented in various appendices (Appendix 1, Appendix 2, Appendix 3, Appendix 4, Appendix 5, Appendix 6).

The totals values implicated in those appendices were presented in a separate section of the post and were the 'grand totals' based on each ocean area under a 'per annum' basis:

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... Totals

The full results of thermal expansion and thermal contraction is as follows:

Atlantic (Per annum net thermosteric change: 0.0470611 mm)

Pacific (Per annum net thermosteric change: 0.00319018 mm)

Indian (Per annum net thermosteric change: 0.779715 mm)

Southern (Per annum net thermosteric change: 0.0154316 mm)

Arctic (Per annum net thermosteric change: 0.0412511 mm)

Misc_1 (Per annum per group member net thermosteric change: 0.0597841 mm)

Misc_2 (Per annum per group member net thermosteric change: 0.111403 mm)

Misc_3 (Per annum per group member net thermosteric change: 0.174235 mm)

These values in millimeters are the bottom line average thermosteric changes per year.

These values were derived by adding the thermal expansion (positive numbers) and thermal contraction (negative numbers) together for each depth level in each ocean area WOD Zone and each ocean group, then dividing that sum by the number of years involved.

The global average net thermal expansion is:

Oceans: 0.0470611 + 0.00319018 + 0.779715 + 0.0154316 + 0.0412511 + Groups: 0.0597841 +  0.111403 + 0.174235 

= 1.23207108

1.23207108 / 8 = 0.154008885 millimeters

If global sea level rise per year is 3.6mm then that 0.154008885 is 4.4%.

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(On Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction - 49). Those figures were expressions of the graphs in the six appendices listed above.

II. Now

In today's appendices I want to give the data values in HTML table format so that the scientific types and researchers can focus on the details if they care to (HTML1, HTML2, HTML3, HTML4, HTML5, HTML6, HTML7, HTML8).

There are eight appendices instead of the six appendices in the previous post, but the ocean areas and groups are the same (see III. Appendix Details).

There were thirty-three depths presented in the graphs, however, since that many colums cannot be fitted into an HTML graph without serious visual distortion, there are only four depths per table, and thirty-two dephs presented (32 ÷ 8 = 4).

Thus, what is shown for each ocean area is eight tables with four depth levels per table totaling 32 depth levels over the years 1950 - 2023.

Each column value is the thermal expansion or thermal contraction at that depth level over the years covered in the graphs and now in these HTML tables. 

Anyone can use the values to generate their own graphs if  they want to.

III. Closing Comments

As has been demonstrated in this series, to properly calculate thermal expansion one has to consider many depth levels, the volume/mass separately at each depth level, the temperature changes at those levels for the years being calculated, and then use the proper thermal coefficient.

That is how we develop the fact that sea level change is caused primarily by glacial melt dynamics (Hot, Warm, & Cold Thermal Facts: Tidewater-Glaciers - 9).

The previous post in this series is here.