Category Archives: Oceans

Sea level rise whiplash

Posted on February 8, 2019 by curryja | 112 comments

by Judith Curry

Some recent sea level rise publications, with implications for how we think about the worst case scenario for the 21st century.

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Posted in Oceans

Is ocean warming accelerating faster than thought?

Posted on January 21, 2019 by niclewis | 92 comments

by Nic Lewis

*** UPDATE : response to comments by Zeke Hausfather appended

There are a number of statements in Cheng et al. (2019) ‘How fast are the oceans warming’, (‘the paper’) that appear to be mistaken and/or potentially misleading. My analysis of these issues is followed by a reply from the paper’s authors.

Contrary to what the paper indicates:

Contemporary estimates of the trend in 0–2000 m depth ocean heat content over 1971–2010 are closely in line with that assessed in the IPCC AR5 report five years ago
Contemporary estimates of the trend in 0–2000 m depth ocean heat content over 2005–2017 are significantly (> 95% probability) smaller than the mean CMIP5 model simulation trend.

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Posted in climate models, IPCC, Oceans

Ocean Heat Content Surprises

Posted on January 14, 2019 by curryja | 271 comments

by Judith Curry

There have several interesting papers on ocean heat content published in recent weeks, with some very important implications.

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Posted in Oceans

Sea levels, atmospheric pressure and land temperature during glacial maxima

Posted on January 4, 2019 by curryja | 86 comments

by Alan Cannell

The new tropical lands: a carbon sink during formation and huge source of carbon dioxide and methane when lost to the sea.

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Posted in Oceans

Sea level rise: what’s the worst case?

Posted on November 29, 2018 by curryja | 145 comments

by Judith Curry

Draft of article to be submitted for journal publication.

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Posted in Oceans, Uncertainty

Special Report on Sea Level Rise

Posted on November 27, 2018 by curryja | 193 comments

by Judith Curry

I have now completed my assessment of sea level rise and climate change.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Oceans

Resplandy et al. Part 4: Further developments

Posted on November 23, 2018 by niclewis | 47 comments

By Nic Lewis

There have been further interesting developments in this story Continue reading →

Posted in Data and observations, Oceans, Uncertainty