HR: 13:45h
AN: OS12B-01    [PDF]
TI: World Ocean heat content, 1955-1999
AU: * Levitus, S
EM: sydney.levitus@noaa.gov
AF: NODC/NOAA, E/OC5, 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 United States
AU: Antonov, J
EM: john.antonov@noaa.gov
AF: NODC/NOAA, E/OC5, 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 United States
AU: Boyer, T
EM: tim.boyer@noaa.gov
AF: NODC/NOAA, E/OC5, 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 United States
AB: We update our earlier estimates (Levitus et al., 2000) of ocean heat content for the world ocean with the additional 1.7 million temperature profiles that have become available as part of "World Ocean Database 2001". The results are quantitatively similar through the early 1990s but the newer estimates are lower for the 1990s due to an error in processing the XBT data for the earlier results. This difference does not affect any previous conclusions regarding the dominance of ocean heat content in the earth's heat balance for this period or possible causes of the heat content variability. The results of multivariate analyses of ocean heat content are presented.
DE: 1635 Oceans (4203)
DE: 4215 Climate and interannual variability (3309)
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting