2018 Continues Record Global Ocean Warming

How fast are the oceans warming?

(2019) Lijing Cheng et al.   SCIENCE

2017 was the warmest year on record for the global ocean

(2018) Lijing Cheng et al.   ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

Evolving Relative Importance of the Southern Ocean and North Atlantic in Anthropogenic Ocean Heat Uptake

(2018) Jia-Rui Shi et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Multidecadal Changes of the Upper Indian Ocean Heat Content during 1965-2016

(2018) Yuanlong Li et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Climate-change–driven accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter era

(2018) R. S. Nerem et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Longer and more frequent marine heatwaves over the past century

(2018) Eric C. J. Oliver et al.   Nature Communications

Hurricane Harvey Links to Ocean Heat Content and Climate Change Adaptation

(2018) Kevin E. Trenberth et al.   Earths Future

ENSO's Changing Influence on Temperature, Precipitation, and Wildfire in a Warming Climate

(2018) J. T. Fasullo et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Marine heatwaves under global warming

(2018) Thomas L. Frölicher et al.   NATURE

Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages

(2018) Terry P. Hughes et al.   NATURE

Recent Southern Ocean warming and freshening driven by greenhouse gas emissions and ozone depletion

(2018) Neil C. Swart et al.   Nature Geoscience

Anthropogenic influences on major tropical cyclone events

(2018) Christina M. Patricola et al.   NATURE

Altimeter-era emergence of the patterns of forced sea-level rise in climate models and implications for the future

(2018) John T. Fasullo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dominant Role of the Ocean Mixed Layer Depth in the Increased Proportion of Intense Typhoons During 1980–2015

(2018) Liguang Wu et al.   Earths Future

Decline in global oceanic oxygen content during the past five decades

(2017) Sunke Schmidtko et al.   NATURE

Improved estimates of ocean heat content from 1960 to 2015

(2017) Lijing Cheng et al.   Science Advances

An imperative to monitor Earth's energy imbalance

(2016) K. von Schuckmann et al.   Nature Climate Change

Earth’s Energy Imbalance

(2014) Kevin E. Trenberth et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

A review of global ocean temperature observations: Implications for ocean heat content estimates and climate change

(2013) J. P. Abraham et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Changes in precipitation with climate change

(2010) KE Trenberth   CLIMATE RESEARCH