warming of the world ocean

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Warming of the World Ocean
Sydney Levitus, * John I. Antonov, Timothy P. Boyer, Cathy Stephens


Warming of the World Ocean -- Levitus et al. 287 (5461): 2225 -- Science


We quantify the interannual-to-decadal variability of the heat content (mean temperature) of the world ocean from the surface through 3000-meter depth for the period 1948 to 1998. The heat content of the world ocean increased by ~2 × 1023 joules between the mid-1950s and mid-1990s, representing a volume mean warming of 0.06°C. This corresponds to a warming rate of 0.3 watt per meter squared (per unit area of Earth's surface). Substantial changes in heat content occurred in the 300- to 1000-meter layers of each ocean and in depths greater than 1000 meters of the North Atlantic. The global volume mean temperature increase for the 0- to 300-meter layer was 0.31°C, corresponding to an increase in heat content for this layer of ~1023 joules between the mid-1950s and mid-1990s. The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans have undergone a net warming since the 1950s and the Indian Ocean has warmed since the mid-1960s, although the warming is not monotonic.

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How's that working out 8 years later?

 

[fncceo]

Warm ocean?

Sounds wonderful

 

[cnm]

How's that working out 8 years later?

Here you go, something from Scientific American for you to ignore...

The researchers concluded that half of overall ocean warming has occurred since 1997—a date that they noted in their paper was “nearly coincident with the beginning of the observed surface warming hiatus.”

Deep Ocean Waters Are Trapping Vast Stores of Heat​

 

[skookerasbil]

Weatherman......brilliant resurrecting these fossil threads!

Hysterical stuff.....and the jackasses are saying the exact same things today and what has changed?

Nothing!!