A Deep Look At Latitude Layers

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Fig. 1WOD Layers by latitude

I. Yesterday

I used to wonder about how warmer water found its way to the great current around Antarctica (see the ACC).

The laws of thermodynamics taught me that hot flows to cold, warm flows to cool. 

So, that would mean that the 93% of the increasing global warming from the Sun would spontaneously travel to cooler waters, thus, since the cooler waters, in most ocean locations, are at the deepest depths, I wondered if there are indications in the WOD database (Fig. 1) that would tend to verify that dynamic.

II. Today

The menu below links to three sets of graphs which indicate the affirmative answer to that question.

Notice that the graph lines representing the deepest ocean depths (hadopelagic "hado") are represented by the mauve color (tannish), and the next deepest layer (abyssopelagic "abysso") is represented by the orcid (purplish) colored lines.

The "hado" in many if not most cases is warmer than the shallower "abysso" indicating that the solar radiation makes its way to the deepest parts of the oceans.

The Meaning of "Conservative Temperature" is explained by (this or this).

A "MOL" (mole) is a specific number of photons (Einstein unit).

In the "MOL Counts + Conservative Temperature" page has graphs of the proportion of photons to temperature.

The "take-home" is that CT is a value that is preserved and consistent in all depths and turbulence areas in the currents of the ocean.

III. Fat Tony

This evidence of deep ocean warming prompted Fat Tony (FT) of (Whut?Up) to say that since the laws of thermodynamics are working, it proves that no climate change exists (Jabber The Whut?). 

IV. Closing Comments

To avoid Fat Tony's disease, see the TEOS-10 Primer.