. -Scott Stephen Wilde says:  July 0, 0000 at 00:00 PM  Obviously it is a graduated transition between mostly warming at the top of the ocean skin layer to mostly cooling at the bottom of the ocean skin layer with approximate equality about halfway between. DWIR from above the water surface therefore increases the temperature gradient through the vertical profile of the ocean skin layer but leaves the rate of energy flow from ocean bulk to atmosphere through the skin layer undisturbed The increased thermal gradient through the skin layer deals only with IR from above and leaves the background gradient present to continue its work in moving energy from ocean to air at the pre-existing rate. 