Global ocean heat content 1955–2008 in light of recently revealed instrumentation problems

By S. Levitus, J. Antonov, T. Boyer, R. Locarnini, H. Garcia, A. Mishonov. 2007

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods (2015, background): “5m of GMSL rise for the 1° to 3°Cwarming associatedwith these periods (5, 6), evidence for former GMSL exceeding this amount requires a contribution from the GrIS and/or AIS.”
Configuration and assessment of the GISS ModelE2 contributions to the CMIP5 archive (2014, background): “…estimate is based on the rate of change of World Ozone Data Center (WODC) estimates of ocean heat content changes over 0–2000 m for 1980–2004, but this might be biased low due to data sparseness in the early period and lack of information from greater than 2000 m depth [Levitus et al., 2009].”
Seabirds and climate change: roadmap for the future (2012, background): “Already, as a result of past changes in air temperature, heat content of the ocean has increased dramatically (Belkin 2009, Levitus et al. 2009, Burrows et al. 2011).”
The global energy balance from a surface perspective (2013, background): “…(e.g., Hartmann and Short 1980; Hartmann et al. 1986; Ramanathan et al. 1989; Gutowski et al. 1991; Ohmura and Gilgen 1993; Pinker et al. 1995; Li et al. 1997; Gleckler and Weare 1997; Kiehl and Trenberth 1997; Wild et al. 1998; Gupta et al. 1999; Hatzianastassiou and Vardavas 1999; Potter…”
An assessment of oceanic variability for 1960–2010 from the GFDL ensemble coupled data assimilation (2013, methodology): “Therefore, NODC also applied their adjustment (Levitus et al. 2009) only to the ‘‘standard depth’’ datasets (http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOD09/ bt_bias_notes.html).”
Invasive species, climate change and ecosystem-based adaptation : addressing multiple drivers of global change (2010, background): “Over the next century, the IPCC predicts that global average warming from pre-industrial times will be in the range of 1.1 to 4.6°C. Increases in ocean temperatures have already been observed with an estimated average increase of 0.10°C from 1961-2001 (IPCC 2007b, Levitus et al. 2009).”
A decadal prediction case study: Late twentieth-century North Atlantic Ocean heat content (2012, background): “[We do not include Levitus et al. (2009) in the SST metrics because this heat content data product did not include an SST field.]”
Climate change impacts on marine ecosystems. (2012, background): “…Changes in global mean sea level (teal line; Jevrejeva et al. 2008), summer Arctic sea-ice area ( yellow line; Walsh & Chapman 2001), 0–700-m ocean heat content (orange line; Levitus et al. 2009), sea-surface temperature (brown line; Rayner et al. 2006), mean ocean-surface pH (blue line; Natl. Res.”
Evaluation of the GECCO2 ocean synthesis: transports of volume, heat and freshwater in the Atlantic (2015, methodology): “To date, the three most recent estimates of the ocean heat content (OHC) changes in the 0–700 m layer (Domingues et al., 2008; Levitus et al., 2009; Ishii and Kimoto, 2009) now show a similar trend, but differ still in their interannual variability (Levitus et al.”
Accuracy of Global Upper Ocean Heat Content Estimation Expected from Present Observational Data Sets (2017, background): “To further reduce uncertainties in ocean subsurface temperatures, we conducted an objective analysis for monthly mean temperatures on a 1°-longitude and 1°-latitude grid at the 28 levels with a previously used methodology in IK09, except that the trend component was prescribed as done in HIY14.”