Ocean Radiant Heating in Climate Models

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Radiative Heating in Global Climate Models

Climate model dynamics are driven by external and internal forcing. The primary forces affecting the thermal field are long wave radiative (LWR) heating, short wave radiative (SWR) heating, and convection (cumulus, etc.). These forcing effects are cycled through the thermal field to the motion field by nonlinear transfer. The model dependent variables, in particular temperature (T), moisture (Q...

Comparison of Thermal Comfort by Radiant Heating and Convective Heating

Currently, convective heating with a heat-pump system, which has high energy efficiency, is popular for room heating. However, it is possible that energy savings using convective heating can be further improved using heat pumps that service both occupied and unoccupied spaces. Moreover, convective heating increases vertical temperature gradients in a room; thus, it is hard to say whether occupa...

Science of Ocean Climate Models

The rich textures and features of the global ocean circulation and its tracer distributions cannot be fully studied in a controlled laboratory setting using a direct physical analog. Consequently, ocean scientists have increasingly turned to numerical models as a rational experimental tool, along with theoretical methods and a growing array of observational measurements, for rendering a mechani...

Coastal ocean optical influences on solar transmission and radiant heating rate

An extensive set of physical and optical measurements is utilized to characterize the processes and quantify parameters that contribute to the variability of sea surface albedo, solar transmission, and radiant heating rate (RHR). This study is among the first to utilize multidisciplinary observations coupled with radiative transfer simulations to investigate the impact of optical properties on ...