The Saturation Chronicles - 3

Fig. 1 Alaska

I. Background

Today's graphs contrast the heat saturation of the deep ocean with their coastline waters (Appendix 1, Appendix 2).

Fig. 2 Hawaii

Previous posts had other  interesting takes on the global oceans, but without contrasting the coastline waters of those states that have shores on those oceans (The Saturation Chronicles, 2).

Only two oceans are featured in today's graphs.

They are (1) the "North Atlantic" which means the Atlantic ocean north of the equator; and (2) the "North Pacific" which means the Pacific ocean north of the equator.

All of the states featured in the graphs have coasts on those oceans (the two gulfs, Mexico and Alaska are contained in the calculations  because the ocean saturation details are covered by coastline calculations).

II. Graph Details

The red lines on the graphs detail the whole ocean area, while the green lines detail only the coastal waters around the land areas. 

There are three lines for each color representing three depth levels epipelagic, mesopelagic, and bathypelagic.

The graphs show that a lot of saturation has taken place in the vast oceans which cover over 70% of the Earth (but you may find that a related series is also helpful to understand the changes taking place in the ocean now (The US States of Sea Level Change, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)).

Notice in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 that while Hawaii and Alaska have great contrasts in their land areas, they are more similar in their ocean area contrasts.

The North Pacific in which both of them are located has the same red graph line, in each state, along the 40% saturation level, but notice that one of Hawaii's green lines (in situ h^o) registers about a 60% saturation level. 

III. Closing Comments

I suspect that ocean heat saturation, as a cause of the surprising temperature accelerations of 2023 and 2024, is a hypothesis that will eventually make its way into the warming commentariat (The Warming Science Commentariat, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15).

In the mean time I intend to keep an eye on it.

Stay tuned.

The previous post in this series is here.

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