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Review article
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07 Sep 2020
Review article |
| 07 Sep 2020
| 07 Sep 2020
Heat stored in the Earth system: where does the energy go?
Karina von Schuckmann
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Mercator Ocean International, Ramonville St.-Agne, France
Lijing Cheng
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071,
China
Matthew D. Palmer
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
James Hansen
Columbia University Earth Institute, New York, USA
Caterina Tassone
WMO/GCOS, Geneva, Switzerland
Valentin Aich
WMO/GCOS, Geneva, Switzerland
Susheel Adusumilli
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
Hugo Beltrami
Climate and Atmospheric Sciences Institute, St. Francis Xavier
University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Tim Boyer
NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Francisco José Cuesta-Valero
Climate and Atmospheric Sciences Institute, St. Francis Xavier
University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Environmental Sciences Program, Memorial University of Newfoundland,
NL, Canada
Damien Desbruyères
Ifremer, University of Brest, CNRS, IRD, Laboratoire
d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, Brest, France
Catia Domingues
National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton, UK
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, University of
Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Almudena García-García
Climate and Atmospheric Sciences Institute, St. Francis Xavier
University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Pierre Gentine
Earth and Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
John Gilson
SCRIPPS Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
Maximilian Gorfer
Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change and Institute of
Physics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Leopold Haimberger
Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, Vienna,
Austria
Masayoshi Ishii
Department of Atmosphere, Ocean and Earth System Modeling Research,
Meteorological Research Institute, Nagamine, Tsukuba, Japan
Gregory C. Johnson
NOAA, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, USA
Rachel Killick
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
Brian A. King
National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton, UK
Gottfried Kirchengast
Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change and Institute of
Physics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Nicolas Kolodziejczyk
University of Brest, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, Laboratoire
d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, IUEM, Brest, France
John Lyman
NOAA, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, USA
Ben Marzeion
Institute of Geography and MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental
Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Michael Mayer
Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, Vienna,
Austria
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK
Maeva Monier
CELAD/Mercator Ocean International, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France
Didier Paolo Monselesan
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Sarah Purkey
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
Dean Roemmich
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
Axel Schweiger
Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Sonia I. Seneviratne
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science,
ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
Andrew Shepherd
Center for Polar Observation and Modeling, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Donald A. Slater
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
Andrea K. Steiner
Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change and Institute of
Physics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Fiammetta Straneo
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
Mary-Louise Timmermans
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University, New
Haven, Connecticut, USA
Susan E. Wijffels
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, USA
Data sets
Heat stored in the Earth system: Where does the energy go? Version 2 K. von Schuckmann, L. Cheng, M. D. Palmer, J. Hansen, C. Tassone, V. Aich, S. Adusumilli, H. Beltrami, T. Boyer, F. J. Cuesta-Valero, D. Desbruyères, C. Domingues, A. García-García, P. Gentine, J. Gilson, M. Gorfer, L. Haimberger, M. Ishii, G. C. Johnson, R. Killik, B. A. King, G. Kirchengast, N. Kolodziejczyk, J. Lyman, B. Marzeion, M. Mayer, M. Monier, D. P. Monselesan, S. Purkey, D. Roemmich, A. Schweiger, S. I. Seneviratne, A. Shepherd, D. A. Slater, A. K. Steiner, F. Straneo, M.-L. Timmermans, and S. E. Wijffels https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/GCOS_EHI_EXP_v2
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Understanding how much and where the heat is distributed in the Earth system is fundamental to understanding how this affects warming oceans, atmosphere and land, rising temperatures and sea level, and loss of grounded and floating ice, which are fundamental concerns for society. This study is a Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) concerted international effort to obtain the Earth heat inventory over the period 1960–2018.
Understanding how much and where the heat is distributed in the Earth system is fundamental to...
