OS44A:
US CLIVAR Session on the Global Energy Balance, Ocean Heat Content, and the Warming Hiatus III Panel Discussion


Session ID#: 11192

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]

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