Antarctica
A key sentence to note in this report says: ‘Half of all carbon dioxide bound in the world’s oceans is found in the Southern Ocean.’ What impact does the outgassing have on the total carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere, which we’re expected to believe is a matter of huge climate concern requiring drastic and expensive measures for decades to come?
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Storms over the waters around Antarctica drive an outgassing of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to a new international study with researchers from the University of Gothenburg. — Phys.org reporting.
The research group used advanced ocean robots for the study, which provides a better understanding of climate change and can lead to better global climate models.
The world’s southernmost ocean, the Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica, plays an important role in the global climate because its waters contain large amounts of carbon dioxide.
A new international study, in which researchers from the University of Gothenburg participated, has examined the complex processes driving air-sea fluxes of gasses, such as carbon dioxide.
Storms bring carbon dioxide-rich waters to the surface
The research group is now delivering new findings that shed light on the area’s important role in climate change.
“We show how the intense storms that often occur in the region increase ocean mixing and bring carbon dioxide-rich waters from the deep to the surface. This drives an outgassing of carbon dioxide from the ocean to the atmosphere. There has been a lack of knowledge about these complex processes, so the study is an important key to understanding the Southern Ocean’s significance for the climate and the global carbon budget”, says Sebastiaan Swart, professor of oceanography at the University of Gothenburg and co-author of the study.
Facilitates better climate models
Half of all carbon dioxide bound in the world’s oceans is found in the Southern Ocean. At the same time, climate change is expected to result in more intense storms in the future. Therefore, it is vital to understand the storms’ impact on the outgassing of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the researchers point out.
“This knowledge is necessary to be able to make more accurate predictions about future climate change. Currently, these environmental processes are not captured by global climate models”, says Marcel du Plessis at the University of Gothenburg, who also participated in the study.
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[…] Southern Ocean storms cause outgassing of carbon dioxide […]
Er! ‘Half of all carbon dioxide bound in the world’s oceans is found in the Southern Ocean.’ Talk about stating the bl****ng obvious.
Definitions of the Southern Ocean, or even whether it exists in its own right, have changed over the years. Arguments over its ‘official’ boundaries, and other issues, continue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ocean
“more accurate predictions “?
“these environmental processes are not captured by global climate models”?
When has either of these two been close to happening? Looking for data that supports a preconceived notion about Nature, couple with an inability to perform falsifiable testing is not science is no “key to understanding.”
We know that Universities publish whatever will bring in the money.
‘The research group used advanced ocean robots for the study, which provides a better understanding of climate change and can lead to better global climate models.’
Word salad. Wouldn’t it be good enough to use just regular ocean robots?
As often happens with grant research, the study report attempts to give relevance to basic research. They can’t stand for their findings to not have an immediate value. So they make $#|+ up.
‘Measuring the inaccessible and stormy waters around Antarctica for a long period of time is a real challenge’
Argo floats refuse to go near Antarctica.
“This knowledge is necessary to be able to make more accurate predictions about future climate change. Currently, these environmental processes are not captured by global climate models”
So, climate models that world governments are relying on to destroy civilization don’t work.
All who claim their study will make climate models better are making a tacit admission that they don’t work.
Not only that, computer models are *not* evidence or data, but merely the bias of the programmer to give the result the ecoloons want. For ‘science’ to use data to become reliant on models rather than data is a retrograde step. Models should be used to drive experimentation and observed data collection, not vice versa.
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And they have proved that CO2 levels must have been higher in the past if the deep water has more. They managed to gloss over the lack of Climate Disaster that was caused.
real science: Nikolov and Zeller’s papers, temperature sets from satellites and radiosondes
science fiction: climate models and all the “adjusted” temperature sets published particularly land surface temperatures with 30% or more made up numbers (no stations in that area)
It would appear they are saying that their computer models don’t work and they don’t know how to do real observational science but they have to try and keep the grant money rolling in. They don’t even realise they are admitting that ‘climate science’ as practised by members of the UN Church of Climatology is a scam.
these people are merely Grant Farmers. It is those that provide the Grants that we should be looking at.
let’s ignore the dozens of newly discovered undersea volcanoes, both out-gassing AND heating the water forcing the water to release dissolved gases.