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| Mesopelagic |
Data from the following ocean areas were used to produce the graphs presented in today's post: Equatorial Indian, NW Pacific, Mediterranean, North Atlantic, Red Sea, North Pacific, Persian Gulf, Sea of Okhotsk, Equatorial Pacific, Sulu Sea, North Indian, South Indian, Southern, Bering Sea, Sea of Japan, Equatorial Atlantic, Arctic, South Atlantic, and South Pacific.
The pelagic depth levels are not exact in all publications (compare this to this), so I added the meters of those depth levels to each graph so as to make it clearer.
The issue which the graphs are used to illustrate is the heat saturation (a.k.a. ocean heat content) at various depth levels.
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| Epipelagic |
The basic observation that scientists adhere to is that the photon current a.k.a. heat flux travels from hot/warm molecules to cold/cooler molecules of seawater.
Since the photon current is constantly on the move when seawater temperatures fluctuate, taking the temperature of seawater at various depths is how the photon current is watched and recorded (The Photon Current, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 , 17, 18, 19, 20, 21).
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| Bathypelagic |
In the more recent posts of this series I mentioned that my hypothesis is that heat saturation of the oceans could be the cause of the unexpected severe atmospheric heat increases.
That is, since the ocean is known to have absorbed 90-93% of increases in global warming induced temperature, if that percentage of atmospheric temperature absorption decreases (saturation percentage decreases), the atmospheric temperatures will thereby increase accordingly.
There are a lot of factors involved with the phenomenon "when, why, how is a photon absorbed into an atom or molecule of seawater"?
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| Multiple Levels: Epipelagic, Mesopelagic, Bathypelagic and Abyssopelagic |
We know quite well what takes place at the instances when we are taking the sea water temperatures, because it is a simple exercise of watching warm water lose heat and cold water near it gain heat until equilibrium is reached.
You know, sixth grade experiments with a water bottle.
But, even the professor holding the water bottle and telling us in this "experiment ... fresh water in this bottle expands when we warm it, which proves that the expansion of the vast oceans causes 30-40 percent of the global sea level rise."
Anyway, the graphs are based on WOD in situ measurements from 1950-2023, and are simulated from 1900-1949 based upon those in situ values.
I asked an AI program "what makes photons exit an atom or molecule?"
It replied:
"Atoms and molecules have specific energy levels, or orbitals, where their electrons can reside.
Excitation:
When an electron absorbs energy (e.g., from a photon), it can jump to a higher energy level, becoming 'excited'.
De-excitation:
Excited electrons are unstable and tend to return to lower energy levels, a process called de-excitation.
Photon Emission:
During this de-excitation process, the electron releases the excess energy in the form of a photon.
Energy Correspondence:
The energy of the emitted photon is equal to the difference in energy between the two energy levels involved in the electron's transition.
Spontaneous Emission:
This process, where an electron spontaneously transitions to a lower energy level and emits a photon, is called spontaneous emission.
Other Emission Methods:
Photons can also be emitted through other mechanisms, such as stimulated emission (used in lasers) or when a particle and its antiparticle annihilate.
Generative AI is experimental."
That does not tell me what I wanted to know: how an atom or incredibly smaller electron, or the other quantum particles alone, or all of them collaborating together in synchrony, have and use quantum thermometers/binoculars, or other quantum detectors that measure and recognize factors which they determine equate to "time to emit an infrared photon" ...
But I digress.
I have no idea what specific quantum phenomena causes a photon in the photon stream to exit the atom or molecule it is in, having been absorbed there while traveling at the speed of light from a colder atom or molecule, to then head for an even colder one.
The Physics Detective may know.
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| Abyssopelagic |
I travail in the simple realm of the thermometers (CTD) where heat in the ocean water pushes the thermometer column up and down.
But, that does not mean we can't become alarmed when those thermometer (CTD) values tell us that saturation is growing closer, in many places around the ocean world, to a point on the saturation scale which tells us that the ocean is not absorbing as many solar photons as it once did.
Closing Comments
Which means, if the Dredd Blog hypothesis is not falsified, that the atmosphere is going to do some surprising things to our atmospheric thermometers that specialize only in atmospheric temperatures.
The previous post in this series is here.
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