Global Climate Status Report

[babe]

So now I have given our best understanding of Oceanic temps on a depth profile.... I need now to quantify just how much water is in the important "layers". Of course there are large areas of shallow seas. And some areas of anomalous temp profiles like the Gulf of Mexico.....not much ice in direct contact...

Here's a table, from NOAA...

https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/etopo1_ocean_volumes.html

1.335 Billion cubic kilometers.

All of the sections given have average depths of over 3000 feet.... The shallow seas are the Arctic and the South China Sea. Over 88% of the Ocean Area averages over 9000 ft in depth. Lots of cold water. A 1 F increase in temp of that water would represent a huge amount of heat storage.... 1 cal per gram per degree.....

a cubic km is exp 5 in cm, exp 125 in cm3.

The heat content of our atmosphere is a fraction of cal per g, a few cals per 22.4 L which is the mole volume of gas molecules at STP with some reasonable approximation, but greater for polyatomic gases like CO2 and H2O. High humidity can greatly increase the heat content of air.

Just to say, predicting global warming without including ocean dynamics might not get us to the real situation exactly....

 

[silesian]

The presence of polyatomic electronic orbital structure is necessary for the absorption of light of lower frequencies, sure. But heat capacity is the reservoir that holds it and warms the atmosphere.

Greenhouse effect is caused by the absorption by greenhouse gases of low frequency/ high wavelength light being reflected from the Earth's surface.

Greenhouse effect is not caused by higher heat capacity for CO2/ other greenhouse gases (with ~400 ppm CO2 the heat capacity is negligibly different from 0 ppm CO2)

This is neither controversial nor political. Check out any scientific literature.

Heat capacity is not a reservoir. It is the amount of energy it takes to heat a certain amount of material by a certain temperature (calories/ (gram degree C)

 

[silesian]

nah. You're saying we're in some kind of optimum understanding or maximum in our science.

Are you sure I said that? You may want to read again more carefully. Good luck.

 

[babe]

Greenhouse effect is caused by the absorption by greenhouse gases of low frequency/ high wavelength light being reflected from the Earth's surface.

Greenhouse effect is not caused by higher heat capacity for CO2/ other greenhouse gases (with ~400 ppm CO2 the heat capacity is negligibly different from 0 ppm CO2)

This is neither controversial nor political. Check out any scientific literature.

Heat capacity is not a reservoir. It is the amount of energy it takes to heat a certain amount of material by a certain temperature (calories/ (gram degree C)

well, you've got me thinking about this again. Following my last posts yesterday I got to thinking about microwave ovens. If you irradiate water molecules with just the right IR frequency, you can spin those little water molecules and specifically heat them. That frequency corresponds to the energy of that spin, stretch or whatever motion the molecule can take with that specific energy amount.

heat capacity has been studied a lot with almost every molecule of interest to engineers designing engines, or to chemists generally.

It is a property that is a consequence of mass and chemical structure as well as electronic bonding orbitals. It is empirical in the sense that it's value is experimentally determined.... but hey we can calculate it too from known relations just knowing the molecular structure and bonding possibilities (hydrogen bonding,etc)

Temperature might be the more correct measure of heat storage, if mathematically multiplied by heat capacity figures.

I think your concept of mere absorption of IR or "low frequency/high wavelength" light coming up from the earth surface is a simplification. Not exactly untrue, just part of the story. Maybe a big part. "Greenhouse Effect" or "Greenhouse Gases" function like a blanket.

But I think you underestimate the temperature/warmth content of CO2 and water molecules in the air. Sure, they will re-radiate the heat they absorb.... but not very quick.

Black body radiation is always a fact for anything above absolute zero K. 3 degree "heat" is a huge factor in our universe, and so is the zero K heat..... the amount of heat held by material that is at absolute zero. 3 degree heat is the heat radiated from objects at the temp of 3 K.

I'm not trying to minimize the radiation Earth gives off at it's average temps. If we had no atmosphere, it would all go directly out. Even oxygen and nitrogen are huge in containing heat to moderate our climate. Our atmosphere is the reason we don't have daily lows of -200 C and highs of +200 C.... well I didn't check those numbers, it's for sure an exaggeration. Maybe 100C/-100C.

 

[silesian]

Following my last posts yesterday I got to thinking about microwave ovens. If you irradiate water molecules with just the right IR frequency, you can spin those little water molecules and specifically heat them. That frequency corresponds to the energy of that spin, stretch or whatever motion the molecule can take with that specific energy amount

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You must have a very special oven that uses infrared radiation. Might be fun to test out your night vision glasses but you will have a long wait to heat up your food. Most of these types of ovens use microwave radiation.

 

[silesian]

Temperature might be the more correct measure of heat storage, if mathematically multiplied by heat capacity figures..

Temperature is a measure of average kinetic energy. Heat capacity is the amount of energy used to change one unit mass by one unit temperature.

You are throwing science words into these posts without an understanding of their fundamental meaning and I am sorry to say you are making no sense. I hope sharing this with you may help you understand some blind spots and encourage you to take some basics physics and science classes that will really help your development.

Good luck, dude.

 

[LogGrad98]

Do you call it a covered wagon or a Dutch oven?

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Cleveland steamer?

 

[Getting Traded]

Temperature is a measure of average kinetic energy. Heat capacity is the amount of energy used to change one unit mass by one unit temperature.

You are throwing science words into these posts without an understanding of their fundamental meaning and I am sorry to say you are making no sense. I hope sharing this with you may help you understand some blind spots and encourage you to take some basics physics and science classes that will really help your development.

Good luck, dude.

I'm not a scientist but I had no idea what he was talking about either because the words didn't seem to connect.

 

[Harambe]

Cleveland steamer?

I'm not sure what's going on ITT right now. But yes, it does appear to be a **** show.

 

[babe]

Temperature is a measure of average kinetic energy. Heat capacity is the amount of energy used to change one unit mass by one unit temperature.

You are throwing science words into these posts without an understanding of their fundamental meaning and I am sorry to say you are making no sense. I hope sharing this with you may help you understand some blind spots and encourage you to take some basics physics and science classes that will really help your development.

Good luck, dude.

Are you a physic professor? I recognize quotes from textbook definitions here.

The concept is exactly as I describe it. You don't understand the concept. I'm not just throwing words around. Words have meaning, exact meanings. If you're writing a textbook you expect to define the terms in a precise way, to guide the student away from wrong concepts.

The concept of "heat capacity" is defined as a relation between temperature and heat content for a specific atom or molecule. It is studied, and graphed. Across the whole temperature range you can achieve and measure.

The energy stored in the substance is the sum of the heat put in to achieve the temperature of that substance.

It is exactly the "heat stored". That is what I have said, now, several times.

yah, I think you really are a physics or PChem instructor. Most of those graduate students doing those lectures were still down a bit on their learning curve.

 

[babe]

You must have a very special oven that uses infrared radiation. Might be fun to test out your night vision glasses but you will have a long wait to heat up your food. Most of these types of ovens use microwave radiation.

I'm well aware that microwaves are also "infrared" in the sense of being longer wavelength than "red" light.

"infra beneath, below Latin infrastructure - underlying framework of a system; infrared - below the regular light spectrum."
https://www.learnthat.org/pages/view/roots.html#i

The "infra" actually refers to the frequency of the light, not it's wavelength, hence the "below" as in "below the frequency of the regular light spectrum."



A microwave oven is made with a source that is tuned to an exact frequency that will specifically heat a molecule of water. There are two ideas here. A textbook definition meant to classify the spectrum. The definitions have a purpose. There is need to simplify it for the novice. All radiation that is of longer wavelength than visible "red" is defined by the term "infrared". The use of lamps made to keep stuff warm and the use of equipment not intended for that purpose has created the need for two...well, three.... spectral terms. Radio waves even longer in wavelength.... . So, despite the Latin roots of the generic term, we made up "microwave" despite the fact that that term makes no sense. Why would we call it "micro" if it's actually longer.....???? I'd call that the "macrowave" part of the spectrum. But then, there are a whole lot of folks who believe their terminology makes sense.....while missing the basic concept.

Here's a beginner's dilemma:

"A microwave oven's radiation heats up soup in the exact same way that a campfire's radiation heats up campers: through electromagnetic radiation. The misunderstanding that only infrared radiation is thermal perhaps comes from the fact that living human bodies are at a temperature where their thermal radiation peaks in the infrared. "

http://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2013/05...od-even-though-it-emits-no-thermal-radiation/

kinda frustrating trying to talk to really obtuse folks, huh?

I've been trying to shake you outta the notion that the atmosphere, on getting warmer, does not "store" energy. You are focused on the idea of reflection phenomena, seeing the "blanket" as reflecting heat back to earth. I am talking about the fact that warmer temps mean stored heat in the atmosphere.

I think you have the specific misunderstanding outlined in the quote above.

 

[silesian]

yah, I think you really are a physics or PChem instructor. Most of those graduate students doing those lectures were still down a bit on their learning curve.

As accurate as your understanding of the science concepts. Dude, these are high school science concepts that you do not understand. You need to quit while you are behind.