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 …

Measuring global ocean heat content to estimate the Earth energy imbalance

B Meyssignac, T Boyer, Z Zhao, MZ Hakuba… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The energy radiated by the Earth toward space does not compensate the incoming radiation
from the Sun leading to a small positive energy imbalance at the top of the atmosphere (0.4 …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

The impact of fine-scale currents on biogeochemical cycles in a changing ocean

M Lévy, D Couespel, C Haëck… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Fine-scale currents, O (1–100 km, days–months), are actively involved in the transport and
transformation of biogeochemical tracers in the ocean. However, their overall impact on …

Towards comprehensive observing and modeling systems for monitoring and predicting regional to coastal sea level

RM Ponte, M Carson, M Cirano… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
A major challenge for managing impacts and implementing effective mitigation measures
and adaptation strategies for coastal zones affected by future sea level (SL) rise is our …

The global sink of available potential energy by mesoscale air‐sea interaction

SP Bishop, RJ Small, FO Bryan - Journal of Advances in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The thermal component of oceanic eddy available potential energy (EPE) generation due to
air‐sea interaction is proportional to the product of anomalous sea surface temperature …

Ocean warming: From the surface to the deep in observations and models

PJ Durack, PJ Gleckler, SG Purkey, GC Johnson… - Oceanography, 2018 - JSTOR
The ocean is the primary heat sink of the global climate system. Since 1971, it has been
responsible for storing more than 90% of the excess heat added to the Earth system by …

Uncertainty and scale interactions in ocean ensembles: From seasonal forecasts to multidecadal climate predictions

L Zanna, JM Brankart, M Huber… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The ocean plays an important role in the climate system on time‐scales of weeks to
centuries. Despite improvements in ocean models, dynamical processes involving …

Link between the internal variability and the baroclinic instability in the Bohai and Yellow Sea

L Lin, H von Storch, X Chen, W Jiang, S Tang - Ocean Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
A regional ocean ensemble simulation with slightly different initial conditions demonstrates
that internal variability is formed (not only) in the Bohai and Yellow Sea. In this paper, we …

Multi-platform model assessment in the Western Mediterranean Sea: impact of downscaling on the surface circulation and mesoscale activity

E Aguiar, B Mourre, M Juza, E Reyes… - Ocean Dynamics, 2020 - Springer
In numerical ocean modeling, dynamical downscaling is the approach consisting in
generating high-resolution regional simulations exploiting the information from coarser …