“LATENT HEAT TIPPING POINT GETTING CROSSED
Rapid thinning of the sea ice in the Beaufort Sea indicates that there is virtually no latent heat buffer left to consume further heat flowing from the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean into the Arctic Ocean.
As the Latent Heat Tipping Point gets crossed, there will still be a thin layer of ice at the surface, at least as long as air tempartures are low enough to keep it frozen. This thin layer of ice will still consume some heat below the surface, but at the same time it acts as a seal, preventing heat from the Arctic Ocean to enter the atmosphere. Once the tipping point is crossed, the bulk of the heat from the influx of warm water will go into heating up the water of the Arctic Ocean, including the deeper parts of the water, and each year this will occur earlier in the year.
Loss of subsurface sea ice is only one of multiple tipping points hitting the Arctic. Once this Latent Heat Tipping Point is crossed and as the temperature of the oceans keeps rising, more heat will reach sediments that are located at the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean and that contain vast amounts of methane.
The danger is that further heat will destabilize hydrates in these sediments, resulting in huge eruptions of methane both from the destabilizing hydrates and from methane that is present in the form of free gas underneath the hydrates.”
From the page 'Latent heat', at:
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