Sign of Warming?
Posted by Target on 7/30/2009, 7:42 pm
I have been thinking lately that as the waters in the Gulf of Mexico warm at greater depths that storm surges may become higher.

If you take a bowl of cream and whip it up to a lower density then some of the whipped cream may spill over the edge of the mixing bowl.

But with warmer water the viscosity would decline rather than rise as it does with whipped cream.

So the lower density water may be more likely to surge along the Coastline.

If the tides consist of warmer waters at great depths then the amplitudes of the wave height may rise.

I'm sure that simulations of warming fluids could be used to prove this idea if they have not been done already.

The amplitude of global tides may rise due to global warming.
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