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AGU: Geophysical Research Letters

 

Keywords

  • ocean heat content

Index Terms

  • Oceanography: General: Climate and interannual variability
  • Oceanography: General: General or miscellaneous

Abstract

Global ocean heat content 1955–2008 in light of recently revealed instrumentation problems

S. Levitus

National Oceanographic Data Center, NOAA, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

J. I. Antonov

National Oceanographic Data Center, NOAA, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

T. P. Boyer

National Oceanographic Data Center, NOAA, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

R. A. Locarnini

National Oceanographic Data Center, NOAA, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

H. E. Garcia

National Oceanographic Data Center, NOAA, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

A. V. Mishonov

National Oceanographic Data Center, NOAA, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

We provide estimates of the warming of the world ocean for 1955–2008 based on historical data not previously available, additional modern data, correcting for instrumental biases of bathythermograph data, and correcting or excluding some Argo float data. The strong interdecadal variability of global ocean heat content reported previously by us is reduced in magnitude but the linear trend in ocean heat content remain similar to our earlier estimate.

Received 31 December 2008; accepted 18 March 2009; published 11 April 2009.

Citation: Levitus, S., J. I. Antonov, T. P. Boyer, R. A. Locarnini, H. E. Garcia, and A. V. Mishonov (2009), Global ocean heat content 1955–2008 in light of recently revealed instrumentation problems, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L07608, doi:10.1029/2008GL037155.

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