OS41A:
US CLIVAR Session on the Global Energy Balance, Ocean Heat Content, and the Warming Hiatus I Posters


Session ID#: 11139

Session Description:
Understanding Earth's energy budget is fundamental to evaluating climate variability and change, including the rate of global warming and the recent 15-year hiatus in global surface warming. This hiatus has caused confusion and debate within the scientific and policy spheres. It also offers an opportunity to study and improve our understanding of climate change dynamics. Mechanisms proposed for the hiatus include deeper ocean warming, slowdown in net radiative forcing, and natural variability. The ocean covers more than 70% of the Earth's surface and sequesters 90% of the excess heat in the Earth's system. This session invites contributions exploring the ocean’s role in the Earth's heat budget in general and the global warming hiatus in particular. Topics of particular interest include interdecadal variability and the interaction with climate change, radiative forcing and related processes, and ocean heat storage and deeper ocean warming as relevant to this global surface warming hiatus.
Primary Convener:  Xiao-Hai Yan, Univ Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Conveners:  James Carton, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Tim Boyer, NOAA NCEI, Washington, United States and Michael Patterson, US CLIVAR Project Office, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Xiao-Hai Yan, Univ Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, James Carton, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Tim Boyer, National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Michael Patterson, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, US CLIVAR Project Office, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Michael Patterson, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, US CLIVAR Project Office, Boulder, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3339 Ocean/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4513 Decadal ocean variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

How the ocean subsurface changes (0-1500m) during the recent warming slowdown and the impact of observation system change (61802)
Lijing Cheng, Fei Zheng and Jiang Zhu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Beijing, China
Pacific Sea Level Rise Pattern and Global Warming Hiatus (65284)
Cheryl Peyser1, Jianjun Yin1 and Felix W Landerer2, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Recent improvements in ocean heat content estimation (66024)
John P Abraham, University of St. Thomas, School of Engineering, Minnesota, MN, United States
Geographical distribution of surface temperature change over the 2003-2013 decade. (66891)
Habib Boubacar Dieng, LEGOS/CNES, Toulouse, France, Anny A Cazenave, Laboratoire d'Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie Spatiale, Observatoire Midi Pyrénées, LEGOS-CNES-CNRS-IRD-UPS, Toulouse, France, Hindumathi Palanisamy, LEGOS/CNRS, Toulouse Cedex 09, France and Benoit Meyssignac, CNES, LEGOS, Toulouse, France
Are recent global mean temperature trends anomalous relative to the CMIP5 ensemble? (68030)
Marena Lin and Peter J Huybers, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
The Human Influence on Global Warming: Sensitivity to AMOC and OHE (75755)
Ross J Salawitch, University of Maryland, AOSC and Chemistry, College Park, United States, Austin Patrick Hope, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, MD, United States, Nora Rose Mascioli, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Timothy P Canty, University of Maryland, College Park, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, MD, United States
Interhemispheric Changes in Atlantic Ocean Heat Content and Their Link to Global Monsoons (79205)
Hosmay Lopez, UM-CIMAS/NOAA-AOML, Miami, FL, United States; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States, Sang-Ki Lee, University of Miami, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Miami, United States, Shenfu Dong, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States and Gustavo Jorge Goni, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL, United States
Using Observations and Climate Models to Investigate Recent Variability in Upper Ocean Warming (83563)
Paul James Durack1, Peter J Gleckler1, Eric Guilyardi2 and Felix W Landerer3, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)LOCEAN-IPSL, CNRS/IRD/MNHN/Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
The Earth's Energy Budget Across CMIP5 Models (85044)
Robert W Portmann and Erik Joseph Lester Larson, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
The Warming Hiatus, Natural Variability and Thermal Ocean Structure (85280)
Andreas Groth1, Vincent Moron2,3, Andrew William Robertson4, Dmitri A Kondrashov1 and Michael Ghil1,5, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Aix-Marseille University, Aix en Provence, France, (3)CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence Cedex, France, (4)Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, United States, (5)Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Geosciences, Paris, France

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