Cooling down the world oceans and the earth by enhancing the North Atlantic Ocean current

摘要

The world is going through intensive changes due to global warming. It is well known that the reduction in ice cover inthe Arctic Ocean further contributes to increasing the atmospheric Arctic temperature due to the reduction of the albedoeffect and increase in heat absorbed by the ocean’s surface. The Arctic ice cover also works like an insulation sheet, keepingthe heat in the ocean from dissipating into the cold Arctic atmosphere. Increasing the salinity of the Arctic Oceansurface would allow the warmer and less salty North Atlantic Ocean current to flow on the surface of the Arctic Oceanconsiderably increasing the temperature of the Arctic atmosphere and release the ocean heat trapped under the ice.This paper argues that if the North Atlantic Ocean current could maintain the Arctic Ocean ice-free during the winter, thelongwave radiation heat loss into space would be larger than the increase in heat absorption due to the albedo effect. Thispaper presents details of the fundamentals of the Arctic Ocean circulation and presents three possible approaches forincreasing the salinity of the surface water of the Arctic Ocean. It then discusses that increasing the salinity of the ArcticOcean would warm the atmosphere of the Arctic region, but cool down the oceans and possibly the Earth. However, itmight take thousands of years for the effects of cooling the oceans to cool the global average atmospheric temperature.