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Tracking ocean heat uptake during the surface warming hiatus [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2016 Mechanisms for the warming hiatus are inferred by tracking regional ocean heat uptake in different regions. Here, the authors show that the Indo-Pacific heat redistribution holds the key while the abyssal heat uptake in the Atlantic and Southern Oceans ...
Wei Liu, Shang-Ping Xie, Jian Lu
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The Spread of Ocean Heat Uptake Efficiency Traced to Ocean Salinity
Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 Ocean heat uptake (OHU) plays an important role in determining the rate of surface warming under CO2 forcing. We examined the transient response to CO2 forcing in a set of 30 climate models from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) and ...
Maofeng Liu +3 more
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Background Pycnocline Depth Constrains Future Ocean Heat Uptake Efficiency
Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 The Ocean Heat Uptake Efficiency (OHUE) quantifies the ocean's ability to mitigate surface warming through deep heat sequestration. Despite its importance, the main controls on OHUE, and on its two‐fold spread across contemporary climate models, remain ...
Emily Newsom +2 more
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A new conceptual model of global ocean heat uptake. [PDF]
Clim Dyn, 2023 AbstractWe formulate a new conceptual model, named “MT2”, to describe global ocean heat uptake, as simulated by atmosphere–ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs) forced by increasing atmospheric CO$$_{2}$$ 2 , as a function of global-mean surface ...
Gregory JM +11 more
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Drivers and distribution of global ocean heat uptake over the last half century [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2022 This study improves on limitations of the most commonly used spin-up approach for ocean-sea ice models. The authors find that, over the last 50 years, atmospheric changes over the Southern Ocean have driven almost all of the global ocean heat uptake.
Maurice F. Huguenin +2 more
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Dependence of regional ocean heat uptake on anthropogenic warming scenarios. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2020 Cutting anthropogenic emissions makes the North Atlantic the focus of global ocean heat uptake.
Ma X, Liu W, Allen RJ, Huang G, Li X.
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The Influence of Warming Patterns on Passive Ocean Heat Uptake [PDF]
Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 AbstractThe climate's response to forcing depends on how efficiently heat is absorbed by the ocean. Much, if not most, of this ocean heat uptake results from the passive transport of warm surface waters into the ocean's interior. Here we examine how geographic patterns of surface warming influence the efficiency of this passive heat uptake process.
Samar Khatiwala +2 more
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Ocean Heat Uptake Efficiency Increase Since 1970
Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 The ocean stores the bulk of anthropogenic heat in the Earth system. The ocean heat uptake efficiency (OHUE) -- the flux of heat into the ocean per degree of global warming -- is therefore a key factor in how much warming will occur in the coming decades.
Brendan Barry Cael
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Surface Wave Mixing Modifies Projections of 21st Century Ocean Heat Uptake
Atmosphere, 2023 Climate models do not explicitly account for the smaller scale processes of ocean surface waves. However, many large-scale phenomena are essentially coupled with the waves. In particular, waves enhance mixing in the upper ocean and thereby accelerate the
Joshua Kousal +5 more
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Control of land-ocean temperature contrast by ocean heat uptake [PDF]
Geophysical Research Letters, 2007 We show that the ratio of observed annual‐mean land temperature change to ocean surface temperature change, ϕ, has remained almost constant during 1955–2003. This is the case, despite most of the heat capacity of the climate system lying in the oceans, and rapid variations in climate forcing.
John Chiang, Francis Hugo Lambert
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