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| Mesopelagic |
Data from the following ocean areas were used to produce the graphs presented in today's post: Equatorial Indian, NW Pacific, Mediterranean, North Atlantic, Red Sea, North Pacific, Persian Gulf, Sea of Okhotsk, Equatorial Pacific, Sulu Sea, North Indian, South Indian, Southern, Bering Sea, Sea of Japan, Equatorial Atlantic, Arctic, South Atlantic, and South Pacific.
The pelagic depth levels are not exact in all publications, so I added the meters of those depth levels to each graph so as to make it clearer.
The issue which the graphs are used to illustrate is the heat saturation a.k.a. ocean heat content at various depth levels.
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| Epipelagic |
The basic observation that scientists adhere to is that the photon current a.k.a. heat flux travels from hot/warm molecules to cold/cooler molecules of seawater.
Since the photon current is constantly on the move when seawater temperatures fluctuate, taking the temperature of seawater at various depths is how the photon current is watched and recorded (The Photon Current, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 , 17, 18, 19, 20, 21).
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| Bathypelagic |
In the more recent posts of this series I mentioned that my hypothesis is that heat saturation of the oceans could be the cause of the unexpected severe atmospheric heat increases.
That is, since the ocean is known to have absorbed 90-93% of increases in global warming induced temperature increases, if that percentage of atmospheric temperature absorption decreases (saturation percentage decreases), the atmospheric temperatures will thereby increase accordingly.
There are a lot of factors involved with the phenomenon "when, why, how is a photon absorbed into an atom or molecule of seawater"?
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| Multiple Levels: Epipelagic, Mesopelagic, Bathypelagic and Abyssopelagic |
We know quite well what takes place at the instances when we are taking the sea water temperatures, because it is a simple exercise of watching warm water lose heat and cold water near it gain heat until equilibrium is reached.
You know, sixth grade experiments with a water bottle.
But, even the professor holding the water bottle and telling us in this "experiment ... fresh water in this bottle expands when we warm it, which proves that the expansion of the vast oceans causes 30-40 percent of the global sea level rise."
But I digress.
I have no idea what causes a photon in the photon stream to exit the atom or molecule it is in, having been absorbed there while traveling at the speed of light from a colder atom or molecule, and is now heading for and even colder one.
The Physics Detective may know.
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| Abyssopelagic |
I travail in the simple realm of the thermometers where heat in the ocean water pushes the thermometer column up and down.
But, that does not mean we can't become alarmed when those thermometer values tell us that saturation is growing closer, in many places around the ocean world, to a point on the thermometer that tells us that the ocean is not absorbing as many solar photons as it once did.
Closing Comments
Which means, if the Dredd Blog hypothesis is not falsified, that the atmosphere is going to do some surprising things to our thermometers that specialize only in atmospheric temperatures.
The previous post in this series is here.
