The Green-House Gas Forcer vs. The Winter Gatekeeper Round 2: Climate Shifts – Are They for Real?
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The Battle of the Climate Hypotheses: The Green-House Gas Forcer vs. The Winter Gatekeeper Round 2: Climate Shifts – Are They for Real?
Gabriel Oxenstierna
The climate system persistently tries to restore radiative imbalances through the meridional transport of heat via atmospheric and ocean circulation systems that control the poleward flux of latent and sensible heat, see the first article in this series, here.
The “Winter Gate-keeper hypothesis” [WGH] claims that the climate exhibits decades-long heat transport regimes separated by more or less abrupt shifts: “… climate regimes are distinct states of atmospheric circulation with different levels of poleward heat transport. Rather than changing gradually, these regimes can shift abruptly from one state to another.”[2, p. 337]
Climate regimes that are ended by climate shifts are a fundamental feature of the WGH, as they are an expression of the natural cycles that are essential to it.[2, ch. 32-33] These regimes manifest as trends in oceanic and atmospheric oscillations, in varying heat transport intensities, and in altering surface temperature trends.
14 hours ago Guest Blogger 40 Comments
The Battle of the Climate Hypotheses: The Green-House Gas Forcer vs. The Winter Gatekeeper Round 2: Climate Shifts – Are They for Real?
Gabriel Oxenstierna
The climate system persistently tries to restore radiative imbalances through the meridional transport of heat via atmospheric and ocean circulation systems that control the poleward flux of latent and sensible heat, see the first article in this series, here.
The “Winter Gate-keeper hypothesis” [WGH] claims that the climate exhibits decades-long heat transport regimes separated by more or less abrupt shifts: “… climate regimes are distinct states of atmospheric circulation with different levels of poleward heat transport. Rather than changing gradually, these regimes can shift abruptly from one state to another.”[2, p. 337]
Climate regimes that are ended by climate shifts are a fundamental feature of the WGH, as they are an expression of the natural cycles that are essential to it.[2, ch. 32-33] These regimes manifest as trends in oceanic and atmospheric oscillations, in varying heat transport intensities, and in altering surface temperature trends.
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