Heat stored in the earth system: Where does the energy go? The GCOS earth heat inventory team

K Von Schuckmann, L Cheng… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
Human-induced atmospheric composition changes cause a radiative imbalance at the top of
the atmosphere which is driving global warming. This Earth energy imbalance (EEI) is the …

Ocean reanalyses: recent advances and unsolved challenges

A Storto, A Alvera-Azcárate, MA Balmaseda… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Ocean reanalyses combine ocean models, atmospheric forcing fluxes, and observations
using data assimilation to give a four-dimensional description of the ocean. Metrics …

The Copernicus global 1/12 oceanic and sea ice GLORYS12 reanalysis

L Jean-Michel, G Eric, BB Romain, G Gilles… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
GLORYS12 is a global eddy-resolving physical ocean and sea ice reanalysis at 1/12°
horizontal resolution covering the 1993-present altimetry period, designed and implemented …

Framing, Context, and Methods (Chapter 1)

D Chen, M Rojas, BH Samset, K Cobb… - 2021 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assesses
the current evidence on the physical science of climate change, evaluating knowledge …

[HTML][HTML] Heat stored in the Earth system 1960–2020: where does the energy go?

K Von Schuckmann, A Minière, F Gues… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
The Earth climate system is out of energy balance, and heat has accumulated continuously
over the past decades, warming the ocean, the land, the cryosphere, and the atmosphere …

Upper ocean temperatures hit record high in 2020

L Cheng, J Abraham, KE Trenberth, J Fasullo, T Boyer… - 2021 - Springer
The long-term warming of the ocean is a critical indicator of both the past and present state
of the climate system. It also provides insights about the changes to come, owing to the …

[HTML][HTML] Another record: ocean warming continues through 2021 despite La Niña conditions

L Cheng, J Abraham, KE Trenberth, J Fasullo… - … in Atmospheric Sciences, 2022 - Springer
The increased concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human activities
traps heat within the climate system and increases ocean heat content (OHC). Here, we …

Acceleration of the ocean warming from 1961 to 2022 unveiled by large-ensemble reanalyses

A Storto, C Yang - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Long-term changes in ocean heat content (OHC) represent a fundamental global warming
indicator and are mostly caused by anthropogenic climate-altering gas emissions. OHC …

The mean state and variability of the North Atlantic circulation: A perspective from ocean reanalyses

LC Jackson, C Dubois, G Forget… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The observational network around the North Atlantic has improved significantly over the last
few decades with subsurface profiling floats and satellite observations and the recent efforts …

Seasonal forecasting of subsurface marine heatwaves

R McAdam, S Masina, S Gualdi - Communications Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves damage marine ecosystems and services, with effects identified mostly
below the ocean surface. To create a truly user-relevant detection system, it is necessary to …