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If we imagine a fluid traveling through a pipe as being a warm
current of sea-water moving over a cold denser layer of sea-water,
with the air immediately above the warm current forming one wall of
the pipe, would the pressure
of the warm current decrease as the current travels faster,and if so,
would less water evaporate from the warm current as it flows faster?
I ask this because oceanographers are trying to find a mechanism by
which a change in the rate of flow of ocean currents can cause more
seawater to evaporate and thus a warming of the Earth's atmosphere
(apparently water vapour is a better greenhouse gas than carbon
dioxide).
current of sea-water moving over a cold denser layer of sea-water,
with the air immediately above the warm current forming one wall of
the pipe, would the pressure
of the warm current decrease as the current travels faster,and if so,
would less water evaporate from the warm current as it flows faster?
I ask this because oceanographers are trying to find a mechanism by
which a change in the rate of flow of ocean currents can cause more
seawater to evaporate and thus a warming of the Earth's atmosphere
(apparently water vapour is a better greenhouse gas than carbon
dioxide).