Further Studies of the Impact of Waste Heat Release on Simulated Global Climate. Part I

摘要

A general circulation meteorological model was used to investigate the impact of an input of waste heat (1.5 x 10 exp 14 W) into the atmosphere in a small area in the mid-latitude eastern Atlantic Ocean. The results of this experiment are compared with those of two earlier experiments in which the waste heat was input from two energy parks, one in the Atlantic and one in the Pacific Ocean. The energy park produced significant responses in the surface pressure field, the temperature in the lowest layer of the model, and in the total precipitation distribution. The changes are of the same order of magnitude as the changes found in two earlier energy parks experiments. The results of all three energy parks experiments were investigated using zonal harmonic analysis, and the influence of the energy parks on the positions and amplitudes of waves in the temperature and wind fields are discussed. (ERA citation 03:005154)