Upper ocean heat content, SST, and surface heat flux in midlatitude oceanic frontal zonesNONAKA, MASAMI野中, 正見TAGUCHI, BUNMEINAKAMURA, HISASHI田口, 文明中村, 尚
Observational data from the Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Program were used to calculate the upper ocean heat content (OHC) anomaly. The thickness of the upper layer is taken as 300 m for the Pacific/Atlantic Ocean and 150 m for the Indian Ocean since the Indian Ocean has shallower...
Describing the variability of the ocean's thermal properties is therefore an important step toward understanding its role in the global heat budget. In the present study, we combine satellite altimetric height with in situ profiles to compute variability in global, upper- ocean heat content, ...
Upper ocean heat content and the rapid intensification of Hurricane Harvey on the Texas BightHenry Potter
A. Balmaseda, 2012: An ensemble esti- mation of the variability of upper-ocean heat content over the tropical Atlantic Ocean with multi-ocean reanalysis products. Climate Dyn., 39, 1001-1020.Zhu J, Huang B, Balmaseda MA (2012a) An ensemble estimation of the variability of upper-ocean ...
For example in a cold summer month, the sea surface temperature (SST) can be mostly as low as ~ 23-28C and upper ocean heat content (UOHC) ~ 0-20 kj cm-2. In contrast, during a warm summer the SST can be as high as ~ 28-30C, and UOHC increases up to 70 kj cm-2. ...
The OHC is important because a hurricane's surface winds mix the upper ocean and entrain cooler water into the oceanic mixed layer from below, subsequently cooling the sea surface in the region providing heat energy to the storm. For a given initial SST, since higher OHC reduces the wind-...
Determining the heat and freshwater budgets from research ships and autonomous vehicles, and surface salinity derived from satellite microwave radiometers, are described. The intensification of severe storms is given as an application of knowledge of the upper ocean heat content....
Ocean heat content (OHC) change contributes substantially to global sea level rise, so it is a vital task for the climate research community to estimate historical OHC. While there are large uncertainties regarding its value, in this study, the authors discuss recent progress to reduce the errors...
The variability of the upper ocean heat content (OHC) of the South China Sea (SCS) has a significant regional climate impact on the surrounding East and Southeast Asian countries. In this paper, the spatial–temporal variations of the upper OHC in the SCS and their relations to El Niño-...