The Influence of Sea Ice on Ocean Heat Uptake in Response to Increasing...

Journal of Climate;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Two significant changes in ocean heat uptake that occur in the vicinity...surface in the Arctic Ocean. Ocean heat uptake caused by sea ice retreat is...climate response with strong ocean heat uptake in the Southern Ocean and modest...

Ocean Chlorofluorocarbon and Heat Uptake during the Twentieth Century in...

Journal of Climate;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......using ocean observations. The ocean heat uptake between 1957 and 1996 in the...secular trend. The trend in ocean heat uptake is considerably larger than...requirement is to get the rate of ocean heat uptake correct. This is the primary...

Comparing oceanic heat uptake in AOGCM transient climate change...

Journal of Climate;  May 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ......compare the rates of heat uptake by different models...effective diffusivity for ocean heat anomalies (Sokolov...the MIT model. The "ocean heat uptake efficiency"1 used...scenario. Therefore, ocean heat uptake efficiencies for different...

Heat Uptake and the Thermohaline Circulation in the Community Climate...

Journal of Climate;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Ocean heat uptake and the thermohaline circulation...most frequently analyzed are the ocean heat uptake and the North Atlantic thermohaline...Houghton et al. 2001). The interest in ocean heat uptake was increased by the observational...

Ocean heat uptake in transient climate change: Mechanisms and uncertainty...

Journal of Climate;  October 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The ocean heat uptake (OHU) is studied using the...period. The diagnosis of heat flux convergence anomaly...GMR mixing. The analysis of heat flux convergence indicates...1. Introduction The ocean regulates global climate change because of its large heat capacity. In a ...

The role of climate sensitivity and ocean heat uptake on AOGCM transient...

Journal of Climate;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......climate sensitivity and ocean heat uptake in determining the range...and the efficiency of ocean heat uptake. Some possible physical...other atmosphere and ocean fields. Here we are concerned...with which they transfer heat into the ocean. The climate...

Estimates of meridional atmosphere and ocean heat transports

Journal of Climate;  August 15, 2001 ;     700+ words ......are evaluated by computing the implied ocean heat transports, utilizing physical constraints...areas are inferred and show that poleward ocean heat transports are dominant only between...Climate, 14, 164-179. Bryden, H. L., 1993: Ocean heat transport across 24 deg N latitude. ...

How Can Tropical Pacific Ocean Heat Transport Vary?

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......in the South Pacific and affects the ocean heat transport in the southern tropical Pacific...atmospheric anomalies can affect tropical ocean heat transport as the tropical thermocline...loss in the midlatitudes affect tropical ocean heat transport by driving an enhanced ...

Recent Bottom Water Warming in the Pacific Ocean*

Journal of Climate;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Zealand. Rough estimates of the change in ocean heat content suggest that the abyssal warming...a significant fraction of upper World Ocean heat gain over the past few decades. 1. Introduction...2005), estimates of interannual World Ocean heat storage changes (Willis et al. 2004...

Inverse analysis adjustment of the SOC air-sea flux climatology using...

Journal of Climate;  October 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ......flux climatology using 10 hydrographic ocean heat transport constraints distributed throughout...estimated error bounds. The global mean net ocean heat loss to the atmosphere with these adjustments...found with recent estimates of the global ocean heat transport obtained using ...

Deep-ocean heat uptake

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  May 1, 2003 ;     425 words ......at the surface. We study the ocean heat uptake in a global warming scenario...and below 700 m. The deep-ocean heat uptake (DOHU) is almost exclusively...IGOR V. KAMENKOVICH. "The Deep-Ocean Heat Uptake in Transient Climate Change...

Why is There an Evaporation Minimum at the Equator?*

Journal of Climate;  November 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ......caused by an interaction between the ocean heat transport and the distribution of surface...temperature gradient and increases the poleward ocean heat transport. Low latent heat fluxes over...solar radiation is partially offset by ocean heat flux divergence. Large values under the...

Looking for the role of the ocean in tropical Atlantic decadal climate...

Journal of Climate;  March 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......how variations in surface heat fluxes and ocean heat transports contribute to variations of tropical...surface fluxes and is damped by changes in the ocean heat transport. The changes in ocean heat transport are dominated by the horizontal...

The deep-ocean heat uptake in transient climate change

Journal of Climate;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The deep-ocean heat uptake (DOHU) in transient...identical, showing that the heat uptake by the OGCM is a linear...process. After 70 yr the ocean heat uptake is almost evenly...the viewpoint of deep-ocean heat uptake (DOHU), the slowdown...

Seagoing sensor sends climate data

USA Today;  August 1, 1996 ;     355 words ......school's Space Science and Engineering Center. A drifting ocean heat flux sensor could provide important clues to long-term climate...U.S. "Most storms that strike the East Coast are driven by ocean heat fluxes. Heat flux is also an important part of the climate...