Produced by differences in the fluid's density. Processes that connect the reservoirs of a system. To be most useful, we need both to identify the process that are operating and to have an estimate of the speed with which they work. Biological and physical processes alter the global, expected ratio bewteen the isotopes of the lighter elements . In the most general terms, this is a measure of how quickly a substance heats up or cools down - a measure of how a substance's temperature responds to a change in energy.
Water has a high heat capacity and changes temperature slowly with changes in heating.
The heat that is stored in a substance by evaporation and released by condensation. Water has a high heat capacity and can transport large amounts of heat by evaporation in one location, transport of the water vapor to another, and condensation in the new location. A fine, homogeneous, yellowish sediment deposited by wind transport during the ice ages. It covers over one million square miles of Europe, Asia, and North America. All meridions of longitude pass through both the north and south poles.