Auxiliary Material for Paper 2012GL051106 World ocean heat content and thermosteric sea level change (0-2000 m), 1955-2010 S. Levitus National Oceanographic Data Center, NOAA, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA J. I. Antonov UCAR Project Scientist, National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA T. P. Boyer, O. K. Baranova, H. E. Garcia, R. A. Locarnini, A. V. Mishonov, J. R. Reagan, D. Seidov, E. S. Yarosh, and M. M. Zweng National Oceanographic Data Center, NOAA, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA Levitus, S., et al. (2012), World ocean heat content and thermosteric sea level change (0-2000 m), 1955-2010, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L10603, doi:10.1029/2012GL051106. Introduction This data set contains figures referred in the main text and tabular values of change in ocean heat content and thermostatic component of sea level change. Appendix provides a summary of objective analysis (OA) and how the standard errors were estimated. 1. 2012gl051106-txts01.docx, 2012gl051106-txts01.pdf Text S1. Error estimates of objectively analyzed oceanographic data, Figures S1-S14, and Tables S1-S3. 1.1 Figure S1. Time series of ocean heat content (1022J) for the 0-2000 m layer for the major ocean basins based on running pentadal analyses. Each pentadal estimate is plotted at the midpoint of the 5-year period. The vertical bars represent 2.+ACo-S.E. about the pentadal estimate. The linear trend line and the percent variance accounted for by the linear trend are shown in red on each panel. Reference period is 1955-2006. 1.2 Figure S2. Time series for the major ocean basins of ocean heat content (1022J) for the 0-700 m layer based on running pentadal analyses. Each pentadal estimate is plotted at the midpoint of the 5-year period. The vertical bars represent 2.+ACo-S.E. about the pentadal estimate. The linear trend line and the percent variance accounted for by the linear trend are shown in red on each panel. Reference period is 1955-2006. 1.3 Figure S3. Percent increase contributed by the linear trend in each layer of the basins shown in Figure 2. 1.4 Figure S4.Percent variance accounted for by the linear trend of zonally integrated ocean heat content (0-2000 m layer) (Figure 3) as a function of latitude for individual ocean basins. 1.5 Figure S5. Zonal integral of the difference (2006-2010) minus (1955- 1959) in OHC700 and OHC2000 for the World, Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans as function of latitude. Units of each curve is 1020 J. 1.6 Figure S6. Percent variance accounted for by the linear trend of ocean heat content (0-2000 m layer) shown in Figure 3. 1.7 Figure S7. Linear trend of global geographic heat storage (Wm-2) for the World Ocean for the 0-700 m layer. 1.8 Figure S8. Percent variance accounted for by the linear trend of ocean heat content (0-700 m layer) (Figure 3). 1.9 Figure S9. Time series of the thermosteric component of sea level trend mm yr-1 (0-2000 m) for the major ocean basins based on running pentadal analyses. Each pentadal estimate is plotted at the midpoint of the 5-year period. The vertical bars represent 2.+ACo-S.E. about the pentadal estimate. The linear trend line and the percent variance accounted for by the linear trend is shown in red on each panel. Reference period is 1955-2006. 1.10 Figure S10. Time series of the thermosteric component of sea level trend mm yr-1 (0-700 m layer) for the major ocean basins based on running pentadal analyses. Each pentadal estimate is plotted at the midpoint of the 5-year period. The vertical bars represent 2.+ACo-S.E. about the pentadal estimate. The linear trend line and the percent variance accounted for by the linear trend is shown in red on each panel. Reference period is 1955-2006. 1.11 Figure S11. Distribution of all temperature observations used in this study at 700 m depth for the world ocean reproduced from Locarnini et al., +AFs-2010+AF0- (statistics at all standard levels and various climatological averaging periods are available at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOA09F/pr+AF8-woa09f.html). 1.12 Figure S12. Distribution of the standard deviation of all temperature observations used in this study at 700 m depth for the world ocean reproduced from Locarnini et al. +AFs-2010+AF0- (statistics at all standard levels and various climatological averaging periods are available at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOA09F/pr+AF8-woa09f.html). 1.13 Figure S13. Distribution of all temperature observations used in this study at 1750 m depth for the world ocean reproduced from Locarnini et al., +AFs-2010+AF0- (statistics at all standard levels and various climatological averaging periods are available at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOA09F/pr+AF8-woa09f.html). 1.14 Figure S14. Distribution of the standard deviation of all temperature observations used in this study at 1750 m depth for the world ocean reproduced from Locarnini et al., +AFs-2010+AF0- (statistics at all standard levels and various climatological averaging periods are available at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOA09F/pr+AF8-woa09f.html). 1.15 Figure S15. Distribution of the standard deviation of all temperature observations used in this study at 1750 m depth for the world ocean reproduced from Locarnini et al., +AFs-2010+AF0- (statistics at all standard levels and various climatological averaging periods are available at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOA09F/pr+AF8-woa09f.html). 1.16 Table S1. Tabular values of change in ocean heat content, volume mean temperature and related quantities for the 0-2000 m layer for the World Ocean and individual basins as determined by the linear trend for 1955-2010. Heat storage is per unit area of each individual ocean surface. 1.15.1 Column +ACI-Ocean Basin+ACI-, text, name of ocean basins, abbreviations: +ACI-N.+ACI- - north or northern, +ACI-S.+ACI- - south or southern, +ACI-Hem.+ACI- - Hemisphere, +ACI-Atl.+ACI- - Atlantic, +ACI-Pac.+ACI- - Pacific, +ACI-Ind+ACI- - Indian. 1.15.2 Column +ACI-HTrend+ACI-, 10+AF4-22 J/year, the linear trend of basin heat content. 1.15.3 Column +ACIAJQ-VAR+ACI-, percent, the percent variance accounted for by the linear trend. 1.15.4 Column +ACI-HStorage+ACI-, W/m+AF4-2, heat storage. 1.15.5 Column +ACI-HChange+ACI-, 10+AF4-22 J, total change in heat content. 1.15.6 Column +ACI-TChange+ACI-, degree of Celsius, total change in volume mean temperature. 1.17 Table S2. Tabular values of change in ocean heat content, volume mean temperature and related quantities for the 0-700 m layer for the World Ocean and individual basins as determined by the linear trend for1955-2010. Heat storage is per unit area of each individual ocean surface. 1.16.1 Column +ACI-Ocean Basin+ACI-, text, name of ocean basins, abbreviations: +ACI-N.+ACI- - north or northern, +ACI-S.+ACI- - south or southern, +ACI-Hem.+ACI- - Hemisphere, +ACI-Atl.+ACI- - Atlantic, +ACI-Pac.+ACI- - Pacific, +ACI-Ind+ACI- - Indian. 1.16.2 Column +ACI-HTrend+ACI-, 10+AF4-22 J/year, the linear trend of basin heat content. 1.16.3 Column +ACIAJQ-VAR+ACI-, percent, the percent variance accounted for by the linear trend. 1.16.4 Column +ACI-HStorage+ACI-, W/m+AF4-2, heat storage. 1.16.5 Column +ACI-HChange+ACI-, 10+AF4-22 J, total change in heat content. 1.16.6 Column +ACI-TChange+ACI-, degree of Celsius, total change in volume mean temperature. 1.18 Table S3. Tabular values of the thermosteric component of sea level change for the 0-2000m and 0-700m layers for the World Ocean and individual basins as determined by the linear trend for 1955-2010. 1.17.1 Column +ACI-Ocean Basin+ACI-, text, name of ocean basins, abbreviations: +ACI-N.+ACI- - north or northern, +ACI-S.+ACI- - south or southern, +ACI-Hem.+ACI- - Hemisphere, +ACI-Atl.+ACI- - Atlantic, +ACI-Pac.+ACI- - Pacific, +ACI-Ind+ACI- - Indian. 1.17.2 Column +ACI-TH2000+ACI-, mm/year, the linear trend for the 0-2000m layer. 1.17.3 Column +ACIAJQ-VAR2000+ACI-, percent, the percent variance accounted for by the linear trend for the 0-2000m layer. 1.17.4 Column +ACI-Change2000+ACI-, mm, total change in sea level due to thermal expansion of the 0-2000m layer. 1.17.5 Column +ACI-TH700+ACI-, mm/year, the linear trend for the 0-700m layer. 1.17.6 Column +ACIAJQ-VAR700+ACI-, percent, the percent variance accounted for by the linear trend for the 0-700m layer. 1.17.7 Column +ACI-Change700+ACI-, mm, total change in sea level due to thermal expansion of the 0-700m layer. 1.18 Appendix: Error Estimates of Objectively Analyzed Oceanographic Data, Text.