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Global ocean heat content 1955–2008 in light of recently revealed instrumentation problems
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We provide estimates of the warming of the world ocean for 1955–2008 based on historical data not previously available, additional modern data, correcting for instrumental biases of bathythermograph data, and correcting or excluding some Argo float data. The strong interdecadal variability of global ocean heat content reported previously by us is reduced in magnitude but the linear trend in ocean heat content remain similar to our earlier estimate.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Levitus, S., Antonov, J. I., Boyer, T. P., Locarnini, R. A., Garcia, H. E., & Mishonov, A. V.
- Venue
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 2009-04-11
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 7
- ISSN
- 0094-8276 (ISSN-L)
- 1944-8007
- OpenAlex
- W1553680878
- Cited by
- 755
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 52.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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