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Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation slowdown cooled the subtropical ocean [PDF]

, 2013
Observations show that the upper 2 km of the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean cooled throughout 2010 and remained cold until at least December 2011. We show that these cold anomalies are partly driven by anomalous air-sea exchange during the cold winters
Christopher D. Roberts, Johns, William E., David A. Smeed, Darren Rayner, Palmer, Matthew D, McCarthy, Gerard, Smeed, David A, Palmer, Matthew D., Smeed, David A., Roberts, Christopher D., Hobbs, Will, Frajka‐Williams, Eleanor, Will Hobbs, Eleanor Frajka‐Williams, Matthew D. Palmer, Gerard McCarthy, Stuart A. Cunningham, Johns, William E, Rayner, Darren, Roberts, Christopher D, William E. Johns, Cunningham, Stuart A, Cunningham, Stuart A., Frajka-Williams, Eleanor   +23 more
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Underlying drivers of decade-long fluctuation in the global mean sea-level rise

Environmental Research Letters, 2021
Natural climate variability can mask the background trend of global mean sea-level (GMSL) caused by global warming. Recent advances in satellite measurements and ocean heat-content estimates have enabled the monitoring of GMSL budget components and ...
Hyeonsoo Cha, Jae-Hong Moon, Taekyun Kim, Y Tony Song   +3 more
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Variability of ocean heat uptake: Reconciling observations and models [PDF]

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2006
This study examines the temporal variability of ocean heat uptake in observations and in climate models. Previous work suggests that coupled Atmosphere‐Ocean General Circulation Models (A‐OGCMs) may have underestimated the observed natural variability of ocean heat content, particularly on decadal and longer timescales.
AchutaRao, K. M., Santer, B. D., Gleckler, P. J., Taylor, K., Pierce, D., Barnett, T., Wigley, T. M. L.   +6 more
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Mechanisms of Ocean Heat Uptake along and across Isopycnals

Journal of Climate, 2022
Abstract Warming of the climate system accumulates mostly in the ocean and discrepancies in how this is modeled contribute to uncertainties in predicting sea level rise. In this study, regional temperature changes in an atmosphere–ocean general circulation model (HadCM3) are partitioned between excess (due to perturbed surface heat fluxes) and ...
Clément, Louis, McDonagh, Elaine Louise, Gregory, J.M., Wu, Q., Marzocchi, A., Zika, J.D., Nurser, A.J.G.   +6 more
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Increased future ocean heat uptake constrained by Antarctic sea ice extent

International audienceThe ocean is the major sink of excess heat from anthropogenic climate change, and has so far prevented global warming from already surpassing the limits set by the Paris Agreement.
Vogt L, de Lavergne C, Sallée J, Kwiatkowski L, Frölicher TL, Terhaar J.   +5 more
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Connecting Direct Effects of CO2 Radiative Forcing to Ocean Heat Uptake and Circulation

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2019
The ocean's response to direct atmospheric effects of increased carbon dioxide's (CO2) radiative forcing is examined. These direct effects are defined as the climate changes that result from forcing on a fast time scale of about a year, independent of ...
Molly E. Menzel, Timothy M. Merlis
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Oceanic Electrical Conductivity Variability From Observations and Its Budget From an Ocean State Estimate

Geophysical Research Letters, 2022
Because spatio‐temporal variations in ocean heat content (OHC) are strongly predicted by ocean conductivity content (OCC) over most of the global ocean, we analyze the dynamical budget and behavior of the electrical conductivity of seawater.
D. S. Trossman, R. H. Tyler
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Mitigation-driven global heat imbalance in the late 21st century

Communications Earth & Environment
While the changes in ocean heat uptake in a warming climate have been well explored, the changes in response to climate mitigation efforts remain unclear.
Shouwei Li, Liping Zhang, Thomas L. Delworth, William F. Cooke, Se-Yong Song, Qinxue Gu   +5 more
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Earth's energy imbalance and implications [PDF]

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2011
Improving observations of ocean heat content show that Earth is absorbing more energy from the Sun than it is radiating to space as heat, even during the recent solar minimum.
J. Hansen, M. Sato, P. Kharecha, K. von Schuckmann   +3 more
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Ocean heat uptake: drivers, variability and impacts

, 2022
Attributions of causes in the fully coupled atmosphere-ocean system are difficult due to a wide range of interactions in the climate system. One way to address this is to break down the fully coupled closed system into two open systems. Such studies often depend on the specification of sea surface temperature to link ocean and atmosphere.
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