The Photon Current - 4

Fig. 1Ocean Currents, Britannica

In the previous post appendices were presented which contained graphs comparing two latitude layers (The Photon Current - 3).

The two layers were the locations of instruments that gather ocean data.

Today I am presenting the data in HTML format from which those graphs were constructed (Appendix TPC H06.1, Appendix TPC H06.2, Appendix TPC H03.1, Appendix TPC H03.2).

I am also presenting further detail and discussion concerning the AMOC current and

Fig. 2The ACC System

other currents to, among other things, point out that the paper discussed in the previous post uses the data from a single piece of a puzzle that has hundreds of pieces (compare Fig. 1, Fig. 2, and Fig. 3).

The point I am making is that the grand pronouncements in that paper based on a model rather than on billions of in situWOD measurements was ill advised.

And it relied way too much on the advent of "fresh water" into the N. Atlantic due to glacial melt at tidewater glaciers on Greenland. 

The fresh water phenomenon is only one part of the multipart fresh water ingress into the ocean surrounding Greenland.

When the glaciers melt they lose mass which means the lose gravitational power and that loss of gravitational power results in falling sea level around Greenland.

Yes, that unmentionable portion of sea level change (sea level fall) also has a place in the equations.

Fig. 3AMOC System

As the ice sheet gravity diminishes as the ice quantity diminishes, so the water around Greenland flows somewhere else, toward the equator, just as it does at low tide.

Some of the fresh water from tidewater glacier melt also flows away from that area.

The phenomena of seaports having both sea level rise and sea level fall has been discussed often on Dredd Blog (Seaports With Sea Level Change, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31).

It is often mysterious and sometimes perplexing to continue to see some in The Warming Science Commentariat and some oceanographers continue to use textbooks that have incorrect data in them.

Meanwhile, the photon current increases as ≈90% of global warming goes into the oceans and heads for the 'Hado'.

The previous post in this series is here.

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