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| There is some down there Watson. |
In this case, there are two "shallows": 1) from the surface to 100 meters (328 feet) deep; and 2) from the surface to 200 meters (656 feet) deep (the two deeps, then, are 101 meters to the bottom, and 201 meters to the bottom).
The infrared photon heat content/flux is shown in six groups of ocean, sea, and gulf areas by comparing the amount of photon content (moles) in the two shallows and in the two deeps.
The location makeup of the six groups is as follows:
1) Adriatic Sea, Andaman Sea, Arabian Sea, Baltic Sea, Bay of Bengal;
2) Bering Sea, Black Sea, Caribbean Sea, Equatorial Atlantic, Equatorial Indian;
3) Equatorial Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean, North Atlantic, North Indian;
4) North Pacific, North Sea, NW Pacific, Persian Gulf, Red Sea;
5) Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, Seto Inland Sea, South Atlantic, South China Sea;
6) Southern, South Indian, South Pacific, Sulu Sea, Yellow Sea;
The following HTML table contains the links to the six locations of shallow/deep graphs:
The purpose, once again, as in the previous comparisons of heat content in shallows compared to deeps is the same, which is to show that electromagnetic radiation in the form of photons is not limited to the shallow depths.
What inspired this exercise was statements of the following type:
"Sunlight generally penetrates up to 200 meters (about 656 feet) in the ocean ... In that context, "light" refers specifically to visible light—the narrow range of the electromagnetic spectrum that human eyes can see ... this visible range, other forms of "light" like ... Infrared (IR) are also present at the surface, but they are absorbed by the water even faster than visible ... light .. (NOAA)"
"Light may be detected as far as 1,000 meters down in the ocean, but there is rarely any significant light beyond 200 meters" (NOAA)
Light in the ocean decreases with depth, with minimal light penetrating between 200-1,000 meters (656-3,280 feet) and depths below 1,000 meters receiving no light from the surface" (Hawaii Edu)
"little infrared light penetrates more than 2 meters. Light is quenched rather quickly even in clear water. Only about 25 percent of incident light reaches a depth of 10 meters in the open ocean, where water is very clear" (Global Seafood)
"Water absorbs almost all of the infrared energy from sunlight within 10 centimeters of the surface" (Reef2Reef)
"the Sun’s infrared energy is absorbed by water vapor in the atmosphere. The fraction that hits the surface is absorbed in the top few feet of the water" (U of Texas)
The way to use the graphs is to load both a 100m appendix and a 200m appendix from the same ocean area in the HTML table, the compare the shallow graph line (red) with the deep graph line (blue).
Here is an example:
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| Adriatic Sea 100m (from top Line in HTML table) |
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| Adriatic Sea 200m (from top Line in HTML table) |
Remember that the purpose of this exercise is simply to show that ocean heat is transmitted by infrared photons as far down as the Second Law of Thermodynamics is operational.
Which is not limited to a small slice of ocean near the surface as is generally supposed in those comments quoted above.
The previous post in this series is here.
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