TITLE:
Northwest Atlantic Ocean’s SSTs
AUTHORS:
Kern E. Kenyon
KEYWORDS:
North Atlantic, Heat Balance
JOURNAL NAME:
Natural Science,
Vol.12 No.6,
June
5,
2020
ABSTRACT: In the southwestern North Atlantic Ocean, the area between the 80F
isotherm and the equator, and between 30W longitude and the western most land boundary, is
compiled for each month from a world atlas of sea surface temperatures. Between
February and March, the area starts to increase from 100 units until a maximum of over
1000 units is reached in August, after which the area decreases. One unit
equals one latitude/longitude square. While increasing by swelling to the
north, the temperature inside the area essentially does not increase, in spite
of the self-evident fact that absorption of solar heat increases the whole time
in the top 100 m of the water column. It is proposed that sea level rises by
thermal expansion, starting at the equator, producing a northward slope in sea
level which in turn drives warm water in the surface layer northward. This
proposition is consistent with the heat balance required of the North Atlantic.