Climate change, global warming, possible anthropogenic effects on climate processes due to a rapid growth of industry and agriculture are the most popular themes under discussion among the ecological problems. One of the most important issues in climatology yet undecided is whether the recent climate warming affects the deep ocean which may become the major long-term incoming heat flux from the atmosphere? After all, the state of the atmosphere depends to a great extent on the ocean the mass of which is 270 times as great as the mass of the atmosphere and heat capacity is 1,000 times as great. Hence, the ocean is the basic heat, greenhouse gas and moisture source and flux for the atmosphere.
Volume Subject Area:
Heat Transfer and Thermal Engineering
Topics:
Climate,
Climate change,
Economics ,
Heat,
Heat capacity,
Heat flux,
Oceanography,
Oceans,
Physics
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