It has long been believed that the transport of heat northward by the Atlantic Ocean circulation is of importance to mean/seasonal atmosphere-ocean climate, and with less certainty, to decadal climate variability. Indeed, ASOF is founded on the idea that oceanic freshwater and heat transports are both crucial to climate. The importance of ocean circulation has been challenged Clement and Cane (...

The Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) is considered central to the heat budgets of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Temperature and ocean current time series obtained within the Makassar Strait from December 1996 to early July 1998 are used to calculate heat transport of the ITF and assess its influence on Indian Ocean heat divergence. Velocity and temperature values for the surface layer that were no...

Please cite this article in press as: Ferrari, R j.ocemod.2011.02.013 The ocean contributes to regulating the Earth’s climate through its ability to transport heat from the equator to the poles. In this study we use long simulations of an ocean model to investigate whether the heat transport is carried primarily by wind-driven gyres or whether it is dominated by deep circulations associated wit...

Attempts to monitor ocean eddy heat transport are strongly limited by the sparseness of available observations and the fact that heat transport is a quadratic, sign-indefinite quantity that is particularly sensitive to unresolved scales. In this article, a suite of stochastic filtering strategies for estimating eddy heat transport are tested in idealized two-layer simulations of mesoscale ocean...

[1] The heavy winds associated with tropical cyclones generate strong upper ocean mixing. Recent studies suggest that this enhanced mixing significantly contributes to the ocean poleward heat transport, mainly due to a strengthening of the subtropical cells. A general circulation model is used here to show that whether the poleward heat transport is actually increased depends crucially on the l...

Recent measurements of the strength of the Atlantic overturning circulation at 26∘N show a 1 year drop and partial recovery amid a gradual weakening. To examine the extent and impact of the slowdown on basin wide heat and freshwater transports for 2004–2012, a box model that assimilates hydrographic and satellite observations is used to estimate heat transport and freshwater convergence as resi...

In this paper the heat waves, induced by ultra-short laser pulses are considered. The hyperbolic heat transport in n-dimensional spacetime is formulated and solved. It is shown that only for n−odd for heat waves the Huygens principle is fulfilled. The heat transport experiment for Cu3Au alloy is considered.

Dynamic processes of the Earth are based upon heat transport concepts derived from ordinary experience. But, ordinary experience can be misleading, especially when underlain by false assumptions. Geodynamic considerations traditionally have embraced three modes of heat transport: conduction, convection and radiation. Recently, I introduced a fourth, ‘mantle decompression thermal tsunami’ that, ...