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Lakes, oceans and rivers often serve as thermal reservoirs in geophysical processes, such as the weather. In
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is added or extracted. As a conceptual simplification, it effectively functions as an infinite pool of
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Thermodynamic system whose temperature does not change regardless of heat transfer
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of the reservoir changes relatively little when a significant amount of
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source and sink of heat, it is often also referred to as a
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at a given, constant temperature. Since it can act as an
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in the atmosphere often function as thermal reservoirs.
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