heat uptake

The transient response is lower than the equilibrium sensitivity, due to the "inertia" of ocean heat uptake.

These shifts may be seen as biological indicators of climate trends, as warming in the deep oceans indicates protracted heat uptake from the atmosphere.

Baffles are often attached to the cold head to expand the surface area available for condensation, but they also increase the radiative heat uptake of the cryopump.

Climate models predict that temperature trends due to global warming will be much smaller in Antarctica than in the Arctic, mainly because heat uptake by the Southern Ocean acts to moderate the radiative forcing by greenhouse gases.

For the TAR sea-level projections, uncertainty in the climate sensitivity and heat uptake of the oceans, as represented by the spread of models (specifically, atmosphere-ocean general circulation models, or AOGCMs), is more important than the uncertainty from the choice of emissions scenario.