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'THE ROLE OF THE OCEAN IN CLIMATE'
'THE ROLE OF THE OCEAN IN CLIMATE'
Pages 6-10
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The ocean influences the mean climate state of the earth. There is growing evidence that the ocean has, as well, a major influence on climate variations.
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This report reviews plans for large-scale ocean heat flux experiments, such as Cage. Models of the atmosphere with and without a moving ocean show that oceanic effects influence the mean atmospheric temperature distribution (Manabe and Bryan, 1969; Spelman and Manabe, 1983)
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There is evidence that the ocean plays a role in decadal climate variability, and some proposals for largescale ocean experiments to understand decadal variability have been made. The consensus seems to be that to develop a predictive capability, research on interannual climatic phenomena should have first priority.
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The conclusion of the Climate Board (1982) is that "the role of the ocean in time-dependent climatic response deserves special attention in future modeling studies, stressing the regional nature of oceanic thermal inertia and atmospheric energy transfer mechanisms." Carbon dioxide is not the only radiatively important trace substance that can affect the earth's radiation, and hence heat, balance (Chamberlain et al., 1981)
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may be more closely related to solar phenomena. Though important to an overall understanding of the global climate, this subject is not within the scope of this study.
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