Observed and simulated full-depth ocean heat-content  changes for 1970–2005

Cheng, Lijing; Trenberth, Kevin E.; Palmer, Matthew D.; Zhu, Jiang; Abraham, John P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-925-2016

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-925-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-925-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

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26 Jul 2016

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Observed and simulated full-depth ocean heat-content changes for 1970–2005

Lijing Cheng, Kevin E. Trenberth, Matthew D. Palmer, Jiang Zhu, and John P. Abraham

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Final revised paper (published on 26 Jul 2016)
Preprint (discussion started on 08 Apr 2016)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC1: 'Comments to “Observed and simulated full-depth ocean heat content changes for 1970-2005”', xiao boot, 25 Apr 2016
- SC2: 'Response to SC1', Lijing Cheng, 29 Apr 2016
RC1: 'Manuscript MS No.: os-2016-16', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 May 2016
- SC3: 'Responses to Reviewer#1's comments', Lijing Cheng, 12 May 2016
RC2: 'Review of manuscript entitled “Observed and simulated full-depth ocean heat content changes for 1970-2005”, by Lijing Cheng, Kevin E. Trenberth, Matthew D. Palmer, Jiang Zhu, John P. Abraham', Magdalena Balmaseda, 09 May 2016
- SC4: 'Responses to reviewer#2's comments', Lijing Cheng, 12 May 2016
  - EC1: 'the "discussion period" will remain open until June 3', Matthew Hecht, 13 May 2016
AC1: 'Final Response', John Abraham, 06 Jun 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by John Abraham on behalf of the Authors (07 Jun 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (09 Jul 2016) by Matthew Hecht

AR by John Abraham on behalf of the Authors (09 Jul 2016) Manuscript

Short summary

A new method of observing ocean heat content throughout the entire ocean depth is provided. The new method is compared with simulated ocean heat content changes from climate models. The comparisons are carried out in various depth layers of the ocean waters. It is found that there is excellent agreement between the models and the observations. Furthermore, we propose that changes to ocean heat content be used as a fundamental metric to evaluate climate models.