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  Heat stored in the Earth system: Where does the energy go? Version 2

‘Heat stored in the Earth system: Where does the energy go?’ contains a consistent long-term Earth system heat inventory over the period 1960-2018. 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 the most critical number defining the prospects for continued global warming and 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.

Changes in version 2:

a) uncertainties have been added and updated in the netcdf file

b) Ocean heat content > 2000m depth: update of one time series, and thus revised ensemble mean

c) Atmospheric heat content: update of the time series as received by experts on the 29/05/2020

d) Available heat cyropshere: update of the time series as received by experts on the 27/05/2020.

e) some attributes have been added for more details.

 
Citation proposal
(2020) . Heat stored in the Earth system: Where does the energy go? Version 2. https://gdk.gdi-de.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/wdc-climate.de:3879609
 

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Date ( Publication )
2020-07-21
Edition
1
Identifier
GCOS_EHI_EXP_v2
Identifier
doi:10.26050/WDCC/GCOS_EHI_EXP_v2

  Principal investigator

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

  Author

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

  Author

Chinese Academy of Sciences - Lijing Cheng  
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Email: chenglij@mail.iap.ac.cn
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  Author

Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research - UK Met Office - Matthew D. Palmer  
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Email: matthew.palmer@metoffice.gov.uk
Website
http://www.meto.gov.uk/sec5/sec5pg1.html  

  Author

Columbia University - Prof. Dr. James Hansen  
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  Author

GCOS/WMO - Caterina Tassone  
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Email: ctassone@wmo.int
Website
https://gcos.wmo.int/en/  

  Author

GCOS/WMO - Valentin Aich  
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Email: vaich@wmo.int
Website
https://gcos.wmo.int/en/  

  Author

Scripps Institution for Oceanography - Susheel Adusumilli  
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Email: suadusum@ucsd.edu
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n/a  

  Author

Climate and Atmospheric Sciences Institute - Hugo Beltrami  
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Email: hugo@stfx.ca.com
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http://casi-icas.ca/  

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

  Author

Climate and Atmospheric Sciences Institute - Francisco José Cuesta-Valero  
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Email: francisco-jose.cuesta-valero@ufz.de
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http://casi-icas.ca/  

  Author

French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea - Damien Desbruyeres  
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Email: damien.desbruyeres@ifremer.fr
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  Author

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

  Author

Climate and Atmospheric Sciences Institute - Almudena García-García  
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Email: almudena.garcia-garcia@ufz.de
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http://casi-icas.ca/  

  Author

Earth and Environmental Engineering - Pierre Gentine  
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Email: pg2328@columbia.edu
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https://eee.columbia.edu/  

  Author

University of California, San Diego - John Gilson  
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Email: jgilson@gmail.com
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Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change - Maximilian Gorfer  
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Email: maximilian.gorfer@c2sm.ethz.ch
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https://wegcenter.uni-graz.at/en/  

  Author

Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University Vienna - Leopold Haimberger  
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Email: leopold.haimberger@univie.ac.at
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  Author

Meteorological Research Institute - Dr. Masayoshi Ishii  
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Email: maish@mri-jma.go.jp
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http://www.mri-jma.go.jp/Welcome.html  

  Author

NOAA, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory - Gregory C. Johnson  
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Email: gregory.c.johnson@noaa.gov
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https://pmel.noaa.gov  

  Author

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

  Author

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

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

  Author

French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea - Nicolas Kolodziejczyk  
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Email: Nicolas.Kolodziejczyk@ifremer.fr
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Meteorological Research Institute - John Lyman  
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Email: John.Lyman@noaa.gov
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http://www.mri-jma.go.jp/Welcome.html  

  Author

Institute of Geography - Ben Marzeion  
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Email: ben.marzeion@uni-bremen.de
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not filled  

  Author

Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University Vienna - Michael Mayer  
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Email: michael.mayer@univie.ac.at
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not filled  

  Author

Mercator Ocean International - Maeva Monier  
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Email: maeva.monier@mercator-ocean.fr
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https://www.mercator-ocean.fr/en/  

  Author

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

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Scripps Institution for Oceanography - Sarah Purkey  
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Email: spurkey@ucsd.edu
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n/a  

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Scripps Institution for Oceanography - Dean Roemmich  
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Email: droemmich@ucsd.edu
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n/a  

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Applied Physics Laboratory - Axel Schweiger  
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Email: axel@apl.washington.edu
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ETH Zürich - Sonia I. Seneviratne  
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Email: sonia.seneviratne@env.ethz.ch
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http://www.iac.ethz.ch/  

  Author

Center for Polar Observation and Modeling, University of Leeds - Andrew Shepherd  
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Email: A.Shepherd@leeds.ac.uk
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not filled  

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Scripps Institution for Oceanography - Donald A. Slater  
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Email: donald.slater@ed.ac.uk
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n/a  

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Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change - Andrea K. Steiner  
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Email: andi.steiner@uni-graz.at
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https://wegcenter.uni-graz.at/en/  

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Scripps Institution for Oceanography - Fiammetta Straneo  
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Email: fstraneo@ucsd.edu
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n/a  

  Author

Department of Geology and Geophysics - Mary-Louise Timmermanns  
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Email: mary-louise.timmermans@yale.edu
Website
https://earth.yale.edu/  

  Author

Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation - Susan E. Wijffels  
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Email: swijffels@whoi.edu
Website
http://www.cmar.csiro.au  

  Publisher

WDC Climate at DKRZ  

  Point of contact

Mercator Ocean International - Karina von Schuckmann  
Website
https://www.mercator-ocean.fr/en/  
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Keywords
  • Earth heat inventory
Keywords
  • climate change
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CC BY 4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Hierarchy level name
GCOS_EHI_EXP_v2
Date stamp
2020-07-08T12:08:01
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115
Metadata standard version
ISO 19115-2:2009

  Point of contact

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

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

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