PC24C:
Tracking Ocean Heat Content and Its Role in Earth's Climate Variability and Change II Posters


Session ID#: 28436

Session Description:
The ocean’s capacity to store heat and to redistribute it geographically and over depth is fundamental to understanding Earth’s climate and sea level variability and change. More than 90% of the Earth's energy imbalance and about one-third of observed global mean sea level rise are explained by ocean heat uptake. This session aims to bring together studies tracking ocean heat content and thermosteric sea level and its implications for climate and sea level variability and change, from global to regional scales. We welcome studies based on in situ and satellite observing systems, ocean or coupled reanalyses, and climate modelling as well as process studies. Studies focusing on the ocean’s role in the Earth energy imbalance, climate sensitivity and regional changes associated to natural climate modes of variability are also solicited.
Primary Chair:  Karina von Schuckmann, Mercator Océan, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France; Mercator Ocean International, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France
Co-chairs:  Tim Boyer, National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Cheng Lijing, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Beijing, China and Andrea Storto, Fondazione CMCC, Bolognia, Italy
Moderators:  Tim Boyer, National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Andrea Storto, Fondazione CMCC, Bolognia, Italy
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Tim Boyer, National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Index Terms:

4215 Climate and interannual variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4260 Ocean data assimilation and reanalysis [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4262 Ocean observing systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4556 Sea level: variations and mean [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • PL - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Hemispheric Asymmetry In Upper Ocean Heat Content : Role of Natural Variability (309850)
Saurabh Rathore, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, Australia, Nathaniel L. Bindoff, University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, Australia, Helen Elizabeth Phillips, University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, IMAS, Hobart, Australia and Ming Feng, CSIRO, Oceans and Atmosphere, Crawley, Australia
Bidecadal Change of the Global Ocean Vertical Heat Transport and Its Implications for the Recent Surface Warming Slowdown (313924)
Xinfeng Liang, University of South Florida Tampa, College of Marine Science, Tampa, FL, United States, Christopher G Piecuch, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Rui M Ponte, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States, Gaël Forget, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Carl I Wunsch, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States and Patrick Heimbach, University of Texas, Austin, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Austin, TX, United States; University of Texas, Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States
NOAA’s Operational Oceanic Heat Content Suite of Products: A source for Climate Studies in the Ocean Basins (326806)
Eileen Maturi1, Lynn K Shay2, Jodi Brewster2, David R Donahue3 and Eric W Leuliette4, (1)NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD, United States, (2)RSMAS/University of Miami, Department of Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States, (3)NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, OSPO Program, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (4)NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Reserch, Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry, College Park, Maryland, United States
The North Atlantic Cold Blob Revisited (322039)
Tachanat Bhatrasataponkul, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States; FSU COAPS, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Mark A Bourassa, Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Variation of Indo–Pacific upper ocean heat content during 2001–2012 (219204)
Xiaofen WU, Hangzhou, China

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