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

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).

Citation proposal
(2023) . GCOS EHI 1960-2020 Earth Heat Inventory Ocean Heat Content (Version 2). https://gdk.gdi-de.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/wdc-climate.de:3967268

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Citation

Date ( Publication ): 2023-01-24

Edition: 1

Identifier: GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_OHC_v2

Identifier: doi:10.26050/WDCC/GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_OHC_v2

Principal investigator

Mercator Ocean International - Karina von Schuckmann

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Mercator Ocean International - Karina von Schuckmann

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Mercator Ocean International - Audrey Minière

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Mercator Ocean International - Flora Gues

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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - Francisco José Cuesta-Valero

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Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change - Gottfried Kirchengast

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Scripps Institution for Oceanography - Susheel Adusumilli

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Scripps Institution for Oceanography - Fiammetta Straneo

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University of Reading - Richard Allan

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University of New South Wales - Paul M. Barker

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Climate and Atmospheric Sciences Institute - Hugo Beltrami

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NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information - Tim Boyer

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Chinese Academy of Sciences - Lijing Cheng

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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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Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research - Han Dolman

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National Oceanographic Centre - Catia Domingues

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University of Tasmania - Catia M. Domingues

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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - Almudena García-García

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University of Colorado - Donata Giglio

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University of California, San Diego - John Gilson

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Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change - Maximilian Gorfer

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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

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NOAA, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory - Gregory C. Johnson

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Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research - UK Met Office - Rachel Killick

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National Oceanographic Centre - Brian A. King

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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

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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique en Alpes - Gerhard Krinner

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Carnegie Mellon University - Mikael Kuusela

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Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research - Moritz Langer

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Norwegian Meteorological Institute - Thomas Lavergne

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European Space Agency - Isobel Lawrence

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University of New South Wales - Yuehua Li

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Meteorological Research Institute - John Lyman

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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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St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish - Andrew MacDougall

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University of New South Wales - Trevor McDougall

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Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation - Didier Paolo Monselesan

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Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research - Jean Nitzbon

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University of Leeds - Inès Otosaka

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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - Jian Peng

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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

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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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ETH Zürich - Sonia I. Seneviratne

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University of Edinburgh - Donald A. Slater

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The Club of Rome, The Netherlands Association - Leon Simons

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University of Leeds - Thomas Slater

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Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change - Andrea K. Steiner

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University of Exeter - Noah Smith

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Ocean Scope - Tanguy Szekely

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Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology - Toshio Suga

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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Wim Thiery

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Department of Geology and Geophysics - Mary-Louise Timmermanns

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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Inne Vanderkelen

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Susan E. Wijffels

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Northwest Institute of Eco–Environment and Resources (NIEER), - Tonghua Wu

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University of Zurich - Michael Zemp

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Publisher

WDC Climate at DKRZ

Point of contact

Mercator Ocean International - Karina von Schuckmann

Website: https://www.mercator-ocean.fr/en/

Format

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Keywords

Earth Energy Imbalance

Keywords

Earth heat inventory

Keywords

climate change

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

Metadata language: eng; USA

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OnLine resource: https://www.wdc-climate.de/ui/entry?acronym=GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_OHC_v2

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Content

Coverage Description

Attribute description: sea_and_land_ice_heat_content

Dimension

temporal_extent_19600101_20201231

Coverage Description

Attribute description: atmospheric_heat_content

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temporal_extent_19600101_20201231

Coverage Description

Attribute description: ocean_heat_content

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temporal_extent_19600101_20201231

Coverage Description

Attribute description: total_heat_content

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temporal_extent_19600101_20201231

Coverage Description

Attribute description: continental_heat_content

Dimension

temporal_extent_19600101_20201231

Metadata

File identifier: wdc-climate.de:3967268 XML

Metadata language: eng; USA

Hierarchy level: collection collection

Hierarchy level name: GCOS_EHI_1960-2020_OHC_v2

Date stamp: 2023-01-17T11:01:07

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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