Sentences with phrase «upper ocean heat content»

I don't need an assessment of the models at predicting climate metrics including upper ocean heat content.

Figure 3: global annual upper ocean heat content.

The latter continues a fairly steady upward trend while the surface temperatures and upper ocean heat content undergo a hiatus in warming after about 2004.

Time series of annual average global integrals of upper ocean heat content anomaly (1021 J, or ZJ) for (a) 0 — 100 m, (b) 0 — 300 m, (c) 0 — 700 m, and (d) 0 — 1800 m. Thin vertical lines denote when the coverage (Fig. 3) reaches 50 % for (a) 0 — 100 m, (b) 100 — 300 m, (c) 300 — 700 m, and (d) 900 — 1800 m. From Lyman & Johnson (2013)

Time series of annual average global integrals of upper ocean heat content anomaly (1021 J, or ZJ) for (a) 0 — 100 m, (b) 0 — 300 m, (c) 0 — 700 m, and (d) 0 — 1800 m. Time series are shown using ZIF estimates relative to both ClimArgo (dashed grey lines) and Clim1950 (dashed black lines).

In 2008, climate change sceptic Roger Pielke Sr said this: «Global warming, as diagnosed by upper ocean heat content has not been occurring since 2004».

They found increases in sea surface temperature and upper ocean heat content made the ocean more conducive to tropical cyclone intensification, while enhanced convective instability made the atmosphere more favorable for the growth of these storms.

The other incorrect premise in your question is that the THC is a zero - sum game as far as tropical and extratropical North Atlantic upper ocean heat content (and SST) is concerned.

This is supported by historic observations (Figure 1), which shows roughly decade - long hiatus periods in upper ocean heat content during the 1960s to 1970s, and the 1980s to 1990s.

These trends are also accompanied by rising sea levels and upper ocean heat content over similar multi-decadal time scales in the tropical Atlantic.

This modulates the flow of heat from below and hence controls upper ocean heat content.

We also find that H is predicted with significantly more skill by DePreSys than by NoAssim (Fig. 1B), and we conclude that the improvement of DePreSys over NoAssim in predicting Ts on interannual - to - decadal time scales results mainly from initializing upper ocean heat content.

Slow variations in upper ocean heat content that have been observed in the subpolar and marginal ice zone regions of the Atlantic since the mid-twentieth century are thought to be related to changes in the strength of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).

The second is, and I quote «Global warming, as diagnosed by upper ocean heat content has not been occurring since 2004».

• It is very likely that anthropogenic forcings have made a substantial contribution to increases in global upper ocean heat content (0 — 700 m) observed since the 1970s (see Figure SPM.6).

One thing I would have liked to see in the paper is a quantitative side - by - side comparison of sea - surface temperatures and upper ocean heat content; all the paper says is that only «a small amount of cooling is observed at the surface, although much less than the cooling at depth» though they do report that it is consistent with 2 - yr cooling SST trend — but again, no actual data analysis of the SST trend is reported.

These changes to bathymetry dislocate and modulate the strength of these currents and thereby affect the overlying sea surface temperature (SST) and upper ocean heat content.

Eli, Pielke Snr says: «There does not need to be years of record to obtain statistically significant measures of upper ocean heat content.

so, the upper ocean heat content is increasing and the polar front is getting more turbulent.