The Saturation Chronicles - 15

Combo View (t_si & p_si parameters) in
function "air_g_chempot_vap_si"

In a previous post here on Dredd Blog ("Last" Doesn't Always Mean "Previous" - 8) the layers and zones within these spaces were graphed.

Today's graph "Combo View" shows those layers averaged together, plus the high and the low within those layers (which I hope helps us to see that these are not patterns that match the more radical temperature patterns of global-average temperature over those same years - see the "A Different Picture" graph below).

The essence/function being graphed in "Combo View" is the "chemical potential" produced by SIA functions in the C++ program I wrote (converting the TEOS-10 SIA Fortran Air module).

A Different Picture

The reason for another look at Ocean Heat Saturation is that atmospheric dynamics are not a "tail wagging the dog" scenario.

That is,  it is not a situation where "the dog" (78.08% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen = 99.03%) is controlled by (0.97%) the tail:

"By mole fraction (i.e., by quantity of molecules), dry air contains 78.08% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.04% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other trace gases (see Composition below for more detail). Air also contains a variable amount of water vapor, on average around 1% at sea level, and 0.4% over the entire atmosphere."

(Wikipedia, Atmosphere of Earth). This is to say, the graphs of temperature change over time are more intense and present a different pattern than the minority of atmospheric gasses and vapors do.

Ocean Heat Increase

The ocean heat content increase is another, and perhaps more to the point case. 

It made me wonder about the assertions that "90%" or "93%" of atmospheric global warming is absorbed by the oceans.

How far back beyond 1955 (to e.g. 1850) does that decrease go, in terms of percentage?

The heat flow from the atmosphere to the ocean would have to begin at a time when the atmosphere had an excessive amount of heat, then increased as that excessive amount increased.

In other words there has to be a thermodynamic reason for the heat to exit the atmosphere and enter the ocean.

If that reason is "The Second Law of Thermodynamics" ("hot flows to cold", "warmer flows to cooler") then the atmosphere must be warmer than the ocean for any transit of photons to take place (The Photon Current, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 , 17, 18, 19, 20, 21).

Also, by the same token where the ocean is warmer than the atmosphere the heat flow (photon flow) will reverse and flow from the ocean into the atmosphere.

What I am getting at is that the heat content percent flowing out of and/or into the ocean is not a fixed amount unless "complete saturation" is reached.

"Complete Saturation" in this case means the capacity to absorb an amount of heat in a reasonable span of time at a particular latitude and longitude.

In other words, absorption takes time, and how much time depends on the level of saturation of heat in the ocean at a particular time, place, and depth (The Saturation Chronicles, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 , 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14).

When the absorption time required is too long or the heat to be absorbed is too much at any given time, place, or depth, the atmosphere will retain that amount of heat heat until the saturation decreases to a favorable absorption scenario.

In other words, much more research is required to determine "Why Scientists Got It Wrong" (see video below).

The previous post in this series is here.

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