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  • What are the heat content and net thermal flux of the ocean basins, and how are they changing over time?

    Posted on August 25th, 2009 Submitted by richard schumacher
    Categorized as Climate, Earth System Tagged as climate model, data, heat content, ocean basins, oceans, thermal flux

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    The answers are necessary for accurate climate modeling. The difficulty will be the expense of placing and monitoring the large number of sensors required (at least tens of thousands, perhaps many more).



 

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