FN Archimer Export Format
PT J
TI Improved estimates of ocean heat content from 1960 to 2015
BT 
AF CHENG, Lijing
   TRENBERTH, Kevin E.
   FASULLO, John
   BOYER, Tim
   ABRAHAM, John
   ZHU, Jiang
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C1 Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Atmospher Phys, Int Ctr Climate & Environm Sci, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China.
   Natl Ctr Atmospher Res, Boulder, CO 80307 USA.
   NOAA, Natl Ctr Environm Informat, Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA.
   Univ St Thomas, St Paul, MN 55105 USA.
C2 CHINESE ACAD SCI, CHINA
   NCAR NATL CTR ATMOSPHER RES, USA
   NOAA, USA
   UNIV ST THOMAS, USA
IN DOAJ
IF 11.511
TC 436
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00673/78501/80763.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00673/78501/80764.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB Earth's energy imbalance (EEI) drives the ongoing global warming and can best be assessed across the historical record (that is, since 1960) from ocean heat content (OHC) changes. An accurate assessment of OHC is a challenge, mainly because of insufficient and irregular data coverage. We provide updated OHC estimates with the goal of minimizing associated sampling error. We performed a subsample test, in which subsets of data during the data-rich Argo era are colocated with locations of earlier ocean observations, to quantify this error. Our results provide a new OHC estimate with an unbiased mean sampling error and with variability on decadal and multidecadal time scales (signal) that can be reliably distinguished fromsampling error (noise) with signal-to-noise ratios higher than 3. The inferred integrated EEI is greater than that reported in previous assessments and is consistent with a reconstruction of the radiative imbalance at the top of atmosphere starting in 1985. We found that changes in OHC are relatively small before about 1980; since then, OHC has increased fairly steadily and, since 1990, has increasingly involved deeper layers of the ocean. In addition, OHC changes in sixmajor oceans are reliable on decadal time scales. All ocean basins examined have experienced significant warming since 1998, with the greatest warming in the southern oceans, the tropical/subtropical Pacific Ocean, and the tropical/subtropical Atlantic Ocean. This new look at OHC and EEI changes over time provides greater confidence than previously possible, and the data sets produced are a valuable resource for further study. 
PY 2017
PD MAR
SO Science Advances
SN 2375-2548
PU Amer Assoc Advancement Science
VL 3
IS 3
UT 000397044000014
DI 10.1126/sciadv.1601545
ID 78501
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