GCOS EHI 1960-2020 Continental Heat Content

The file “GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_Continental_Heat_Content_data.nc” presents an updated estimate of the global continental heat storage for the period 1960-2020. For the first time, the continental heat storage is assessed as composed by: ground heat storage due to changes in subsurface temperatures, inland water heat storage due to the warming of inland water bodies, and permafrost heat storage due to thawing of ground ice in the Arctic. Furthermore, we argue that all three components of the continental heat storage should be monitored independently of their relative magnitude, as heat gain in the three components alters several important climate phenomena affecting society and ecosystems. This file contains the total continental heat storage relative to 1960. The ground heat storage has been estimated by inverting 1079 subsurface temperature profiles form the Xibalbá database ( https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Xibalb_Underground_Temperature_Database/13516487 ) and a bootstrap technique to aggregate the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) inversions of each profile (Cuesta-Valero et al., 2022a). The data are used in Cuesta-Valero et al. (2022b) and von Schuckmann et al. (2022).

Date (Publication): 2022-07-29

Edition: 1

Citation identifier: GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_CoHC

Citation identifier: doi:10.26050/WDCC/GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_CoHC

Principal investigator

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - Francisco José Cuesta-Valero
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Mercator Ocean International - Karina von Schuckmann
https://www.mercator-ocean.fr/en/

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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - Francisco José Cuesta-Valero
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Mercator Ocean International - Karina von Schuckmann
https://www.mercator-ocean.fr/en/

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Mercator Ocean International - Audrey Minière
https://www.mercator-ocean.fr/en/

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Climate and Atmospheric Sciences Institute - Hugo Beltrami
http://casi-icas.ca/

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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - Almudena García-García
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Mercator Ocean International - Flora Gues
https://www.mercator-ocean.fr/en/

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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique en Alpes - Gerhard Krinner
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Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change - Gottfried Kirchengast
https://wegcenter.uni-graz.at/en/

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Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research - Moritz Langer
www.awi.de

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St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish - Andrew MacDougall
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Scripps Institution for Oceanography - Susheel Adusumilli
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Scripps Institution for Oceanography - Fiammetta Straneo
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Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research - Jean Nitzbon
www.awi.de

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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - Jian Peng
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University of Reading - Richard Allan
http://www.reading.ac.uk/

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University of New South Wales - Paul M. Barker
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ETH Zürich - Sonia I. Seneviratne
http://www.iac.ethz.ch/

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University of Exeter - Noah Smith
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NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information - Tim Boyer
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/

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Chinese Academy of Sciences - Lijing Cheng
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Wim Thiery
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Inne Vanderkelen
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University of New South Wales - John Church
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French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea - Damien Desbruyeres
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Northwest Institute of Eco–Environment and Resources (NIEER), - Tonghua Wu
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Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research - Han Dolman
https://www.nioz.nl/en

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National Oceanographic Centre - Catia Domingues
https://noc.ac.uk/

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University of Colorado - Donata Giglio
http://www.colorado.edu/

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University of California, San Diego - John Gilson
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Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change - Maximilian Gorfer
https://wegcenter.uni-graz.at/en/

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Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University Vienna - Leopold Haimberger
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Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research - Stefan Hendricks
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Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology - Shigeki Hosoda
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/e/

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NOAA, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory - Gregory C. Johnson
https://pmel.noaa.gov

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Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research - UK Met Office - Rachel Killick
http://www.meto.gov.uk/sec5/sec5pg1.html

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National Oceanographic Centre - Brian A. King
https://noc.ac.uk/

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French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea - Nicolas Kolodziejczyk
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Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center - Anton Korosov
https://www.nersc.no

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Carnegie Mellon University - Mikael Kuusela
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Norwegian Meteorological Institute - Thomas Lavergne
https://www.met.no

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University of New South Wales - Yuehua Li
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Meteorological Research Institute - John Lyman
http://www.mri-jma.go.jp/Welcome.html

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Institute of Geography - Ben Marzeion
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Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University Vienna - Michael Mayer
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European Space Agency - Isobel Lawrence
http://www.esa.int

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University of New South Wales - Trevor McDougall
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Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation - Didier Paolo Monselesan
http://www.cmar.csiro.au

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University of Leeds - Inès Otosaka
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Scripps Institution for Oceanography - Sarah Purkey
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Scripps Institution for Oceanography - Dean Roemmich
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Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology - Kanako Sato
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/e/

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Japan Meteorological Agency - Katsunari Sato
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GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel - Abhishek Savita
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Applied Physics Laboratory - Axel Schweiger
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Center for Polar Observation and Modeling, University of Leeds - Andrew Shepherd
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The Club of Rome, The Netherlands Association - Leon Simons
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University of Edinburgh - Donald A. Slater
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University of Leeds - Thomas Slater
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Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change - Andrea K. Steiner
https://wegcenter.uni-graz.at/en/

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Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology - Toshio Suga
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/e/

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Ocean Scope - Tanguy Szekely
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Department of Geology and Geophysics - Mary-Louise Timmermanns
https://earth.yale.edu/

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Susan E. Wijffels
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University of Zurich - Michael Zemp
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Publisher

WDC Climate at DKRZ

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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - Francisco José Cuesta-Valero
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Mercator Ocean International - Karina von Schuckmann
https://www.mercator-ocean.fr/en/

Name: NetCDF

Keywords

Continental

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Earth Energy Imbalance

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Earth heat inventory

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GCOS

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Heat Inventory

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Land

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climate change

Use limitation: CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Language: eng; USA

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Begin date: 1960-01-01

End date: 2020-12-31

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OnLine resource: https://www.wdc-climate.de/ui/entry?acronym=GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_CoHC

Hierarchy level: collection

Attribute description: continental_heat_content

Descriptor: not filled; unit: ZJ

File identifier: wdc-climate.de:3929321 XML

Metadata language: eng; USA

Hierarchy level: collection

Hierarchy level name: GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_CoHC

Date stamp: 2022-07-20T12:03:58

Metadata standard name: ISO 19115

Metadata standard version: ISO 19115-2:2009

Point of contact

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - Francisco José Cuesta-Valero
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Mercator Ocean International - Karina von Schuckmann
https://www.mercator-ocean.fr/en/

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