GC34B:
Earth's Energy Imbalance and Energy Flows through the Climate System II

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Session ID#: 16633

Session Description:
Earth’s Energy Imbalance (EEI) is the fundamental measure of climate. The goal of this session is to bring together experts from ocean and atmospheric reanalysis, air-sea fluxes, ocean heat content (OHC), climate models, atmospheric radiation and sea level to better synthesize all the information available on the energy flows through the climate system and inventories of where it resides.  This is a central topic under a CLIVAR research focus “CONCEPT-HEAT” “Consistency between planetary energy balance and ocean heat storage”.  Papers on fluxes of energy at top-of-atmosphere and the surface, and analyses of changes in storage of energy and its movement around are encouraged.   A major reservoir is the ocean and ways to improve OHC analyses and achieve closure of the energy budget over time are especially included.   Assessments of model and reanalyses performance, observational results, and insights on EEI from both global and regional “cage” studies are encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Kevin E Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States, Tristan L'Ecuyer, University of Wisconsin, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, United States and Karina von Schuckmann, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille Cedex 09, France
Chairs:  Tristan L'Ecuyer, University of Wisconsin, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, United States and Karina von Schuckmann, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille Cedex 09, France
OSPA Liaison:  Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

1620 Climate dynamics [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1635 Oceans [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3339 Ocean/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Surface energy fluxes and their representation in CMIP5 models (Invited) (121490)
Martin Wild, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Atlantic meridional heat transports computed from estimating Earth’s energy locally (Invited) (121432)
John Fasullo, NCAR, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Kevin E Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Improved estimates of ocean heat content from 1960-2015 (123681)
Lijing Cheng1, Kevin E Trenberth2, John Fasullo3, Tim Boyer4, John P Abraham5 and Jiang Zhu1, (1)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (5)University of St Thomas, St. Paul, MN, United States
Satellite-Based Top-of-Atmosphere Radiative Fluxes: Update to the CERES Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) Data Product (176501)
David R Doelling1, Norman G Loeb2, Wenying Su2, Hailan Wang3, Le Trang Nguyen3, Joseph Corbett3 and Lusheng Liang4, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)ADNET Systems Inc., Lanham, United States
Hemispheric energy balance from an ocean perspective (194835)
Maria Zita Hakuba, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and Graeme L Stephens, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Capabilities of VOS-based fluxes for estimating ocean heat budget and its variability (141050)
Sergey Gulev, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia and Konstantin Belyaev, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, SAIL, Moscow, Russia
Sea and land surface temperatures, ocean heat content, Earth’s energy imbalance and net radiative forcing over the recent years (131698)
Habib Boubacar Dieng, LEGOS/CNES, Toulouse, France, Anny A Cazenave, Université de Toulouse, LEGOS (CNES/CNRS/IRD/UT), Toulouse, France, Benoit Meyssignac, CNES, LEGOS, Toulouse, France and Karina von Schuckmann, Mercator Ocean international, Scientific Direction, Toulouse, France
The Earth's Energy Budget Across CMIP5 Model (189087)
Robert W Portmann and Erik Joseph Lester Larson, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

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