Heat stored in the Earth system 1960-2020: Where does the energy go?

von Schuckmann, Karina; Minière, Audrey; Gues, Flora; Cuesta-Valero, Francisco José; Kirchengast, Gottfried; Adusumilli, Susheel; Straneo, Fiammetta; Allan, Richard; Barker, Paul M.; Beltrami, Hugo; Boyer, Tim; Cheng, Lijing; Church, John; Desbruyeres, Damien; Dolman, Han; Domingues, Catia; García-García, Almudena; Giglio, Donata; Gilson, John; Gorfer, Maximilian; Haimberger, Leopold; Hendricks, Stefan; Hosoda, Shigeki; Johnson, Gregory C.; Killick, Rachel; King, Brian A.; Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas; Korosov, Anton; Krinner, Gerhard; Kuusela, Mikael; Langer, Moritz; Lavergne, Thomas; Li, Yuehua; Lyman, John; Marzeion, Ben; Mayer, Michael; MacDougall, Andrew; Lawrence, Isobel; McDougall, Trevor; Monselesan, Didier Paolo; Nitzbon, Jean; Otosaka, Inès; Peng, Jian; Purkey, Sarah; Roemmich, Dean; Sato, Kanako; Sato, Katsunari; Savita, Abhishek; Schweiger, Axel; Shepherd, Andrew; Seneviratne, Sonia I.; Simons, Leon; Slater, Donald A.; Slater, Thomas; Smith, Noah; Steiner, Andrea K.; Suga, Toshio; Szekely, Tanguy; Thiery, Wim; Timmermanns, Mary-Louise; Vanderkelen, Inne; Wijffels, Susan E.; Wu, Tonghua; Zemp, Michael

GCOS EHI Experiment 1960-2020

hdl:21.14106/279f535efb48324f4f604bb390f74deadf268812

von Schuckmann, Karina et al.

Experiment

climate change Earth Energy Imbalance Earth heat inventory

Summary: GCOS EHI Experiment 1960-2020 contains a consistent long-term Earth system heat inventory over the period 1960-2020. The Earth climate system is out of energy balance and heat has accumulated continuously over the past decades, warming the ocean, the land, the cryosphere and the atmosphere. According to the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, this planetary warming over multiple decades is human-driven and results in unprecedented and committed changes to the Earth system, with adverse impacts for ecosystems and human systems. The Earth heat inventory provides a measure of the Earth energy imbalance, and allows for quantifying how much heat has accumulated in the Earth system, and where the heat is stored. The Earth heat inventory is the most fundamental global climate indicator that the scientific community and the public can use as the measure of how well the world is doing in the task of bringing anthropogenic climate change under control. We call for an implementation of the Earth heat inventory into the Paris agreement’s global stocktake based on best available science. 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): ‘Heat stored in the Earth system 1960-2020: Where does the energy go?’.
Project: GCOS_EHI (GCOS Earth Heat Inventory)
Contact: Karina von Schuckmann (
karina.von.schuckmann@nullmercator-ocean.fr
)
Spatial Coverage: Longitude 0 to 360 Latitude -90 to 90
Temporal Coverage: 1960-01-01 to 2020-12-31
Use constraints: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Data Catalog: World Data Center for Climate
Size: 531.44 KiB (544198 Byte)
Format: NetCDF
Status: completely archived
Creation Date: 2022-07-20
Future Review Date: 2032-07-22

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Cite as: von Schuckmann, Karina; Minière, Audrey; Gues, Flora; Cuesta-Valero, Francisco José; Kirchengast, Gottfried; Adusumilli, Susheel; Straneo, Fiammetta; Allan, Richard; Barker, Paul M.; Beltrami, Hugo; Boyer, Tim; Cheng, Lijing; Church, John; Desbruyeres, Damien; Dolman, Han; Domingues, Catia; García-García, Almudena; Giglio, Donata; Gilson, John; Gorfer, Maximilian; Haimberger, Leopold; Hendricks, Stefan; Hosoda, Shigeki; Johnson, Gregory C.; Killick, Rachel; King, Brian A.; Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas; Korosov, Anton; Krinner, Gerhard; Kuusela, Mikael; Langer, Moritz; Lavergne, Thomas; Li, Yuehua; Lyman, John; Marzeion, Ben; Mayer, Michael; MacDougall, Andrew; Lawrence, Isobel; McDougall, Trevor; Monselesan, Didier Paolo; Nitzbon, Jean; Otosaka, Inès; Peng, Jian; Purkey, Sarah; Roemmich, Dean; Sato, Kanako; Sato, Katsunari; Savita, Abhishek; Schweiger, Axel; Shepherd, Andrew; Seneviratne, Sonia I.; Simons, Leon; Slater, Donald A.; Slater, Thomas; Smith, Noah; Steiner, Andrea K.; Suga, Toshio; Szekely, Tanguy; Thiery, Wim; Timmermanns, Mary-Louise; Vanderkelen, Inne; Wijffels, Susan E.; Wu, Tonghua; Zemp, Michael (2022). Heat stored in the Earth system 1960-2020: Where does the energy go?. World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://hdl.handle.net/21.14106/279f535efb48324f4f604bb390f74deadf268812

BibTeX RIS

Contact type	Person	ORCID	Organization
Contact	Karina von Schuckmann	-	Mercator Ocean International
Author	Karina von Schuckmann	-	Mercator Ocean International
Author	Audrey Minière	-	Mercator Ocean International
Author	Flora Gues	-	Mercator Ocean International
Author	Francisco José Cuesta-Valero	-	Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Author	Gottfried Kirchengast	-	Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change
Author	Susheel Adusumilli	-	Scripps Institution for Oceanography
Author	Fiammetta Straneo	-	Scripps Institution for Oceanography
Author	Richard Allan	-	University of Reading
Author	Paul M. Barker	-	University of New South Wales
Author	Hugo Beltrami	-	Climate and Atmospheric Sciences Institute
Author	Tim Boyer	-	NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information
Author	Lijing Cheng	-	Chinese Academy of Sciences
Author	John Church	-	University of New South Wales
Author	Damien Desbruyeres	-	French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Author	Han Dolman	-	Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Author	Catia Domingues	-	National Oceanographic Centre
Author	Almudena García-García	-	Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Author	Donata Giglio	-	University of Colorado
Author	John Gilson	-	University of California, San Diego
Author	Maximilian Gorfer	-	Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change
Author	Leopold Haimberger	-	Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University Vienna
Author	Stefan Hendricks	-	Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Author	Shigeki Hosoda	-	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Author	Gregory C. Johnson	-	NOAA, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Author	Rachel Killick	-	Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research - UK Met Office
Author	Brian A. King	-	National Oceanographic Centre
Author	Nicolas Kolodziejczyk	-	French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Author	Anton Korosov	-	Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
Author	Gerhard Krinner	0000-0002-2959-5920	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique en Alpes
Author	Mikael Kuusela	-	Carnegie Mellon University
Author	Moritz Langer	-	Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Author	Thomas Lavergne	-	Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Author	Yuehua Li	-	University of New South Wales
Author	John Lyman	-	Meteorological Research Institute
Author	Ben Marzeion	-	Institute of Geography
Author	Michael Mayer	-	Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University Vienna
Author	Andrew MacDougall	-	St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish
Author	Isobel Lawrence	-	European Space Agency
Author	Trevor McDougall	-	University of New South Wales
Author	Didier Paolo Monselesan	-	Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation
Author	Jean Nitzbon	-	Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Author	Inès Otosaka	-	University of Leeds
Author	Jian Peng	-	Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Author	Sarah Purkey	-	Scripps Institution for Oceanography
Author	Dean Roemmich	-	Scripps Institution for Oceanography
Author	Kanako Sato	-	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Author	Katsunari Sato	-	Japan Meteorological Agency
Author	Abhishek Savita	0000-0003-2800-3636	GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Author	Axel Schweiger	-	Applied Physics Laboratory
Author	Andrew Shepherd	-	Center for Polar Observation and Modeling, University of Leeds
Author	Sonia I. Seneviratne	-	ETH Zürich
Author	Leon Simons	-	The Club of Rome, The Netherlands Association
Author	Donald A. Slater	-	University of Edinburgh
Author	Thomas Slater	-	University of Leeds
Author	Noah Smith	-	University of Exeter
Author	Andrea K. Steiner	-	Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change
Author	Toshio Suga	-	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Author	Tanguy Szekely	-	Ocean Scope
Author	Wim Thiery	-	Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Author	Mary-Louise Timmermanns	-	Department of Geology and Geophysics
Author	Inne Vanderkelen	-	Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Author	Susan E. Wijffels	-	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Author	Tonghua Wu	-	Northwest Institute of Eco–Environment and Resources (NIEER),
Author	Michael Zemp	-	University of Zurich
Investigator	Karina von Schuckmann	-	Mercator Ocean International

Is documented by

[1] DOI von Schuckmann, Karina; Cheng, Lijing; Palmer, Matthew D.; Hansen, James; Tassone, Caterina; Aich, Valentin; Adusumilli, Susheel; Beltrami, Hugo; Boyer, Tim; Cuesta-Valero, Francisco José; Desbruyères, Damien; Domingues, Catia; García-García, Almudena; Gentine, Pierre; Gilson, John; Gorfer, Maximilian; Haimberger, Leopold; Ishii, Masayoshi; Johnson, Gregory C.; Killick, Rachel; King, Brian A.; Kirchengast, Gottfried; Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas; Lyman, John; Marzeion, Ben; Mayer, Michael; Monier, Maeva; Monselesan, Didier Paolo; Purkey, Sarah; Roemmich, Dean; Schweiger, Axel; Seneviratne, Sonia I.; Shepherd, Andrew; Slater, Donald A.; Steiner, Andrea K.; Straneo, Fiammetta; Timmermans, Mary-Louise; Wijffels, Susan E. (2020). Heat stored in the Earth system: where does the energy go?. doi:10.5194/essd-12-2013-2020

[2] DOI von Schuckmann, Karina; Minère, Audrey; Gues, Flora; Cuesta-Valero, Francisco José; Kirchengast, Gottfried; Adusumilli, Susheel; Straneo, Fiammetta; Allan, Richard; Barker, Paul M.; Beltrami, Hugo; Boyer, Tim; Cheng, Lijing; Church, John; Desbruyeres, Damien; Dolman, Han; Domingues, Catia M.; García-García, Almudena; Giglio, Donata; Gilson, John E.; Gorfer, Maximilian; Haimberger, Leopold; Hendricks, Stefan; Hosoda, Shigeki; Johnson, Gregory C.; Killick, Rachel; King, Brian; Kolodziejczyk, Nikolas; Korosov, Anton; Krinner, Gerhard; Kuusela, Mikael; Langer, Moritz; Lavergne, Thomas; Lawrence, Isobel; Li, Yuehua; Lyman, John; Marzeion, Ben; Mayer, Michael; MacDougall, Andrew H.; McDougall, Trevor; Monselesan, Didier Paolo; Nitzbon, Jan; Otosaka, Inès; Peng, Jian; Purkey, Sarah; Roemmich, Dean; Sato, Kanako; Sato, Katsunari; Savita, Abhishek; Schweiger, Axel; Shepherd, Andrew; Seneviratne, Sonia I.; Simons, Leon; Slater, Donald A.; Slater, Thomas; Smith, Noah; Steiner, Andrea; Suga, Toshio; Szekely, Tanguy; Thiery, Wim; Timmermans, Mary-Louise; Vanderkelen, Inne; Wjiffels, Susan E.; Wu, Tonghua; Zemp, Michael. (2022). Heat stored in the Earth system 1960–2020: Where does the energy go?. doi:10.5194/essd-2022-239

Attached Dataset Groups ( 8 )

Parent project(s)

GCOS Earth Heat Inventory

[Entry acronym: GCOS_EHI_1960-2020] [Entry id: 3929277]