Can Heat From Below Explain the Abyssal Warming Acceleration?
A constant heat source can cause warming, but an acceleration needs either a changing source or changing heat delivery. Most of the direct geothermal fingerprints are weak, so I’m down to the circulation question.
Antarctic Bottom Water doesn’t fully explain the deep ocean warming acceleration
Antarctic Bottom Water initially looked like a really good match to the abyssal warming signal. Then, I calculated how much acceleration the overturning circulation can actually supply…
I Finally Got the Ocean Into the Solver
For the real SWARM forcing I’m testing here, I get about 56.0% of the dissipated power in the ocean and 44.0% in the solid Earth.
If the Heat Is Coming From Above, Why Is the Abyss Most Affected?
The deepest layer has the most widespread warming signal, making a simple "top-down" heating story harder to explain.
Could the Deep Ocean Be Warming Because Its Layers Are Moving?
When I followed deep ocean density layers instead of fixed depth, the stable part of the record matched the observed abyssal warming surprisingly well. Then, we ran out of data.
The Abyss Is Warming and It’s not Adiabatic Compression
The ocean warming acceleration is not explained by adiabatic compression.
I’m Building a Solver to Follow Electromagnetic Energy Through Earth
I’m building a model that follows electromagnetic energy from a changing magnetic field, through the ocean, and into the solid Earth. We’ve just validated the core physics behind the ocean–Earth coupling.
Where is the ocean heat coming from?
The Deep Ocean Is Warming Faster. Where Is the Heat Coming From?
104° Dynamics Requirement
We’re answering the question: What energy, torque, and impulse does a 104º crustal displacement, as described by ECDO theory, require?