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Drivers and distribution of global ocean heat uptake over the last half century

Nature Communications, ISSN: 2041-1723, Vol: 13, Issue: 1, Page: 4921
2022
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  • Citations
    31
  • Captures
    78
  • Mentions
    16
    • News Mentions
      14
      • News
        14
    • Blog Mentions
      2
      • Blog
        2
  • Social Media
    12
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
      12
      • Facebook
        12

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Article Description

Since the 1970s, the ocean has absorbed almost all of the additional energy in the Earth system due to greenhouse warming. However, sparse observations limit our knowledge of where ocean heat uptake (OHU) has occurred and where this heat is stored today. Here, we equilibrate a reanalysis-forced ocean-sea ice model, using a spin-up that improves on earlier approaches, to investigate recent OHU trends basin-by-basin and associated separately with surface wind trends, thermodynamic properties (temperature, humidity and radiation) or both. Wind and thermodynamic changes each explain ~ 50% of global OHU, while Southern Ocean forcing trends can account for almost all of the global OHU. This OHU is enabled by cool sea surface temperatures and sensible heat gain when atmospheric thermodynamic properties are held fixed, while downward longwave radiation dominates when winds are fixed. These results address long-standing limitations in multidecadal ocean-sea ice model simulations to reconcile estimates of OHU, transport and storage.

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Maurice F. Huguenin; Ryan M. Holmes; Matthew H. England

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Chemistry; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Multidisciplinary; Physics and Astronomy

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