Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Tracking ocean heat uptake during the surface warming hiatus

  • Wei Liu,
  • Shang-Ping Xie,
  • Jian Lu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10926
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Mechanisms for the warming hiatus are inferred by tracking regional ocean heat uptake in different regions. Here, the authors show that the Indo-Pacific heat redistribution holds the key while the abyssal heat uptake in the Atlantic and Southern Oceans primarily reflects the downward penetration of anthropogenic heat.