GCOS EHI 1960-2020 Earth Heat Inventoy Ocean Heat Content data (Version 2)

von Schuckmann, Karina et al.

Dataset
Summary
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The file “GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_Earth_Heat_Inventory_Ocean_Heat_Content_data.nc” contains a consistent long-term Earth system heat inventory over the period 1960-2020. Human-induced atmospheric composition changes cause a radiative imbalance at the top-of-atmosphere which is driving global warming. Understanding the heat gain of the Earth system from this accumulated heat – and particularly how much and where the heat is distributed in the Earth system - is fundamental to understanding how this affects warming oceans, atmosphere and land, rising temperatures and sea level, and loss of grounded and floating ice, which are fundamental concerns for society. This dataset is based on a study under the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) concerted international effort to update the Earth heat inventory published in von Schuckmann et al. (2020), and presents an updated international assessment of ocean warming estimates, and new and updated estimates of heat gain in the atmosphere, cryosphere and land over the period 1960-2020. The dataset also contains estimates for global ocean heat content over 1960-2020 for different depth layers, i.e., 0-300m, 0-700m, 700-2000m, 0-2000m, 2000-bottom, which are described in von Schuckmann et al. (2022).

This version includes an update of heat storage of global ocean heat content, where one additional product (Li et al., 2022) had been included to the initial estimate. The Earth heat inventory had been updated accordingly, considering also the update for continental heat content (Cuesta-Valero et al., 2023).
Project
GCOS_EHI (GCOS Earth Heat Inventory)
Spatial Coverage
Longitude 0 to 360 Latitude -60 to 60
Temporal Coverage
1960-01-01 to 2020-12-31
Use constraints
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Data Catalog
World Data Center for Climate
Access constraints
registered users
Size
139.39 KiB (142734 Byte)
Format
NetCDF
Status
completely archived
Creation Date
Future Review Date
2033-01-19
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Cite as
[ Derived from parent entry - See data hierarchy tab ]
von Schuckmann, Karina; Minière, Audrey; Gues, Flora; Cuesta-Valero, Francisco José; Kirchengast, Gottfried; Adusumilli, Susheel; Straneo, Fiammetta; Allan, Richard; Barker, Paul M.; Beltrami, Hugo; Boyer, Tim; Cheng, Lijing; Church, John; Desbruyeres, Damien; Dolman, Han; Domingues, Catia M.; García-García, Almudena; Gilson, John; Gorfer, Maximilian; Haimberger, Leopold; Hendricks, Stefan; Hosoda, Shigeki; Johnson, Gregory C.; Killick, Rachel; King, Brian A.; Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas; Korosov, Anton; Krinner, Gerhard; Kuusela, Mikael; Langer, Moritz; Lavergne, Thomas; Lawrence, Isobel; Li, Yuehua; Lyman, John; Marzeion, Ben; Mayer, Michael; MacDougall, Andrew; McDougall, Trevor; Monselesan, Didier Paolo; Nitzbon, Jean; Otosaka, Inès; Peng, Jian; Purkey, Sarah; Roemmich, Dean; Sato, Kanako; Sato, Katsunari; Savita, Abhishek; Schweiger, Axel; Shepherd, Andrew; Seneviratne, Sonia I.; Slater, Donald A.; Slater, Thomas; Simons, Leon; Steiner, Andrea K.; Szekely, Tanguy; Suga, Toshio; Thiery, Wim; Timmermanns, Mary-Louise; Vanderkelen, Inne; Wijffels, Susan E.; Wu, Tonghua; Zemp, Michael (2023). GCOS EHI 1960-2020 Earth Heat Inventory Ocean Heat Content (Version 2). World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_OHC_v2

BibTeX RIS
VariableUnit
atmospheric_heat_content
ZJ
continental_heat_content
ZJ
ocean_heat_content
ZJ
sea_and_land_ice_heat_content
ZJ
total_heat_content
ZJ

Parent

GCOS EHI 1960-2020 Earth Heat Inventory Ocean Heat Content (Version 2)
Details

Parent project(s)

GCOS Earth Heat Inventory

[Entry acronym: GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_OHC_d_v2] [Entry id: 3967270]