US Climate Variability and Predictability Program

Ocean Heat

Comparison of overlapping one-year estimates at 6-month intervals of net top-of-the-atmosphere annual energy flux from the CERES EBAF Ed4.1 product and an in situ observational estimate of uptake of energy by Earth climate system
Satellite and Argo data reveal doubling of Earth’s heating rate since 2005
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Are long-term changes in mixed layer depth influencing North Pacific marine heatwaves?
ean 2014-2016 sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTa) in the Northeast Pacific
Diverse processes driving a heatwave’s evolution result in conditional forecast skill for the US West Coast
Subsurface ocean heat content anomalies regressed onto low-pass filtered time series of eastern tropical Pacific sea surface temperature anomalies. The black boxes outline the eastern (10°–20°S, 100°–120°E) and western (10°–20°S, 50°–90°E) Indian Ocean, showing the east–west dipole structure.
Pacific influences decadal Indian Ocean heat content via two distinct mechanisms
SST anomalies in the boreal winter
Increasing coupling of Pacific dynamics leads to prolonged marine heatwaves
MOC time series at 34.5S
Dynamic and complex variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 34.5S
RAPID and MOVE array locations
AMOC observations reveal coherent changes
sensible heat and evaporation fluxes in the Arctic Ocean
Arctic sea ice reductions influence air-sea energy exchanges
Southern ocean carbon flux to the atmosphere
Designing a carbon and heat observing system for the Southern Ocean
A Southern Ocean polynya
Modeling multidecadal cycles of Southern Ocean convection
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