Past and future ocean warming

L Cheng, K von Schuckmann, JP Abraham… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Abstract Changes in ocean heat content (OHC) provide a measure of ocean warming, with
impacts on the Earth system. This Review synthesizes estimates of past and future OHC …

Tropical teleconnection impacts on Antarctic climate changes

X Li, W Cai, GA Meehl, D Chen, X Yuan… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Over the modern satellite era, substantial climatic changes have been observed in the
Antarctic, including atmospheric and oceanic warming, ice sheet thinning and a general …

Abyssal ocean overturning slowdown and warming driven by Antarctic meltwater

Q Li, MH England, AMC Hogg, SR Rintoul, AK Morrison - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
The abyssal ocean circulation is a key component of the global meridional overturning
circulation, cycling heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients throughout the world ocean,. The …

Increasing ocean stratification over the past half-century

G Li, L Cheng, J Zhu, KE Trenberth, ME Mann… - Nature Climate …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Seawater generally forms stratified layers with lighter waters near the surface and denser
waters at greater depth. This stable configuration acts as a barrier to water mixing that …

Changing ocean, marine ecosystems, and dependent communities

NL Bindoff, WWL Cheung, JG Kairo, J Arístegui… - 2019‏ - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

Polar regions

MP Meredith, M Sommerkorn… - The ocean and …, 2019‏ - research.monash.edu
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …

On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

D Roemmich, MH Alford, H Claustre… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
The Argo Program has been implemented and sustained for almost two decades, as a
global array of about 4000 profiling floats. Argo provides continuous observations of ocean …

Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes

S Zhou, AJS Meijers, MP Meredith… - Nature climate …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Abstract Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) is pivotal for oceanic heat and carbon
sequestrations on multidecadal to millennial timescales. The Weddell Sea contributes nearly …

Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 C global warming could be dangerous

J Hansen, M Sato, P Hearty, R Ruedy… - Atmospheric …, 2016‏ - acp.copernicus.org
We use numerical climate simulations, paleoclimate data, and modern observations to study
the effect of growing ice melt from Antarctica and Greenland. Meltwater tends to stabilize the …

Fifteen years of ocean observations with the global Argo array

SC Riser, HJ Freeland, D Roemmich, S Wijffels… - Nature Climate …, 2016‏ - nature.com
More than 90% of the heat energy accumulation in the climate system between 1971 and
the present has been in the ocean. Thus, the ocean plays a crucial role in determining the …