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How fast are the oceans warming?
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Observational records of ocean heat content show that ocean warming is accelerating
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“Globally averaged sea surface temperature (SST) has increased by +0.7 ◦C over the last 100 years (Bindoff et al., 2007), with observations indicating that the heat content trend in the upper 2000 m of the ocean has increased from 0.55 to 0.68 Jm−2 s−1 since 1991 (Cheng et al., 2019).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cheng, L., Abraham, J., Hausfather, Z., & Trenberth, K. E.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2019-01-11
- Volume
- 363
- Issue
- 6423
- Pages
- 128-129
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2909681691
- Cited by
- 544
- References
- 13
- FWCI
- 40.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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