Heat stored in the Earth system: Where does the energy go?

The dataset ‘Heat stored in the Earth system: Where does the energy go?’ contains a consistent long-term Earth system heat gain over the past 58 years. Human-induced atmospheric composition changes cause a radiative imbalance at the top-of-atmosphere which is driving global warming. This Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) is a fundamental metric of climate change. 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, 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 1960-2018.

Date (Publication): 2020-02-18

Edition: 1

Citation identifier: GCOS_EHI_EXP

Citation identifier: doi:10.26050/WDCC/GCOS_EHI_EXP

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Mercator Ocean International - Karina von Schuckmann
https://www.mercator-ocean.fr/en/

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Mercator Ocean International - Karina von Schuckmann
https://www.mercator-ocean.fr/en/

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Chinese Academy of Sciences - Lijing Cheng
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Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research - UK Met Office - Matthew D. Palmer
http://www.meto.gov.uk/sec5/sec5pg1.html

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GCOS/WMO - Caterina Tassone
https://gcos.wmo.int/en/

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GCOS/WMO - Valentin Aich
https://gcos.wmo.int/en/

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Scripps Institution for Oceanography - Susheel Adusumilli
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Climate and Atmospheric Sciences Institute - Hugo Beltrami
http://casi-icas.ca/

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NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information - Tim Boyer
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/

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Climate and Atmospheric Sciences Institute - Francisco José Cuesta-Valero
http://casi-icas.ca/

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French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea - Damien Desbruyeres
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National Oceanographic Centre - Catia Domingues
https://noc.ac.uk/

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Climate and Atmospheric Sciences Institute - Almudena García-García
http://casi-icas.ca/

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Earth and Environmental Engineering - Pierre Gentine
https://eee.columbia.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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Meteorological Research Institute - Dr. Masayoshi Ishii
http://www.mri-jma.go.jp/Welcome.html

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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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Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change - Gottfried Kirchengast
https://wegcenter.uni-graz.at/en/

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French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea - Nicolas Kolodziejczyk
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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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Mercator Ocean International - Maeva Monier
https://www.mercator-ocean.fr/en/

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Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation - Didier Paolo Monselesan
http://www.cmar.csiro.au

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Scripps Institution for Oceanography - Sarah Purkey
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Scripps Institution for Oceanography - Dean Roemmich
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Applied Physics Laboratory - Axel Schweiger
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ETH Zürich - Sonia I. Seneviratne
http://www.iac.ethz.ch/

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Center for Polar Observation and Modeling, University of Leeds - Andrew Shepherd
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Scripps Institution for Oceanography - Donald A. 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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Scripps Institution for Oceanography - Fiammetta Straneo
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Department of Geology and Geophysics - Mary-Louise Timmermanns
https://earth.yale.edu/

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Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation - Susan E. Wijffels
http://www.cmar.csiro.au

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WDC Climate at DKRZ

Point of contact

Mercator Ocean International - Karina von Schuckmann
https://www.mercator-ocean.fr/en/

Name: NetCDF

Keywords

CCMI-ssp245-volc-1-0

Keywords

Earth heat inventory

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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: 2018-12-31

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

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File identifier: wdc-climate.de:3878716 XML

Metadata language: eng; USA

Hierarchy level: collection

Hierarchy level name: GCOS_EHI_EXP

Date stamp: 2020-02-17T13:56:23

Metadata standard name: ISO 19115

Metadata standard version: ISO 19115-2:2009

Point of contact

Mercator Ocean International - Karina von Schuckmann
https://www.mercator-ocean.fr/en/

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Mercator Ocean International - Karina von Schuckmann
https://www.mercator-ocean.fr/en/

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