Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Recent hemispheric asymmetry in global ocean warming induced by climate change and internal variability

  • Saurabh Rathore,
  • Nathaniel L. Bindoff,
  • Helen E. Phillips,
  • Ming Feng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15754-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Observations of global ocean heat content during 2005–2015 have shown a strong hemispheric asymmetry, and the southern hemisphere accounts 92% of the total heat gain. Here, the authors show that the rate of observed global ocean warming is consistent with a forced symmetric climate change signal and an asymmetric climate variation for this period.