The only reason
why ocean heat uptake does have an impact is the fact that it is highly concentrated at the surface, where the warming is therefore noticeable (see Fig. 1).
Not exact matches
The
ocean heat uptake comes into play only when one is trying to explain
why the structure of the warming in models changes in time — that is,
why the high latitude warming is delayed.
So
why has
ocean heat uptake become more efficient over the past decade instead?
The reason
why a 1 / S ^ 2 prior is noninformative is that estimates of climate sensitivity depend on comparing changes in temperature with changes in -LCB- forcing minus the Earth's net radiative balance (or its proxy,
ocean heat uptake)-RCB-.
The case for the strength of the AMOC playing an important role in setting the rate of
heat uptake by the
oceans and the degree of disequilibrium in global mean surface temperature is made in particular by Winton et al 2014 and Kostov et al 2013, who describe two rather different perspectives on
why you should expect a relationship between these two quantities.