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Geofysisk institutt

GFI/BCCR Seminar: Global ocean warming: using data and climate models to improve our understanding

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Peter Gleckler (PCMDI, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA): 

Global ocean warming: using data and climate models to improve our understanding

 

Abstract
This presentation will describe several studies of large scale ocean temperature changes in the historically forced simulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP).

The presentation will begin by reviewing the in-situ network of available temperature measurements (circa 1960's to present) that are used to compare with models. A formal detection and attribution study of global ocean warming will then be described. Finally, recent work examining the global ocean uptake of heat during the industrial era will be highlighted, including estimates of changes in the deeper ocean.