GC027
Earth’s energy imbalance and energy flows through the climate system
Session ID#: 77900
Session Description:
Anthropogenic climate change has given rise to a radiative flux imbalance at the top-of-atmosphere (TOA), referred to as Earth’s energy imbalance (EEI). Presently, the most reliable approach to estimate EEI is through assessing the rate of change of heat content across all Earth system components: ocean, cryosphere, land and atmosphere. The evolution of both EEI and associated internal energy exchanges will shape our future climate. To further our understanding of climate variability and change we encourage contributions from all relevant disciplines, exploiting in-situ measurements, reanalysis, climate modeling, and remote sensing techniques. Of particular interest are: discussions of uncertainty in heat storage estimates; characterization of the spatio-temporal variability of EEI and internal energy exchanges; processes perturbing energy budgets and energy flows through the climate system. Implications for key climate metrics, such as sea level, the hydrological cycle and climate extremes, as well as novel techniques that estimate EEI are also encouraged.
Index Terms:
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1621 Cryospheric change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1635 Oceans [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: Maria Zita Hakuba, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States
Conveners: Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States, Matthew D Palmer, Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom and Tristan L'Ecuyer, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Primary Liaison: Maria Zita Hakuba, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States
The transient response of atmospheric and oceanic heat transports to anthropogenic warming (495511)
Chengfei He, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, Zhengyu Liu, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States and Aixue Hu, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Global pattern formation of ocean surface heat uptake in a warming climate (497428)
Shineng Hu, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Shang-Ping Xie, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Wei Liu, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
UVSQ-SAT, a small nanosatellite to observe the Sun and the Earth - Imagine a new way for measuring Earth's energy imbalance (500374)
Mustapha Meftah1, Luc Damé2, Philippe Keckhut3, Alain Hauchecorne3, Slimane Bekki2, Alain Sarkissian4, Jean-Paul Carta5, Rogers Dave6, Emmanuel Bertran7 and The UVSQ-SAT team, (1)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (2)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France, (3)CNRS, Guyancourt, France, (4)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (5)CARTA-ROUXEL, Paris, France, (6)Nanovation, Paris, France, (7)LATMOS, Guyancourt, France
Evolution of ocean heat content related to ENSO (511577)
Cheng Lijing1, Kevin E Trenberth2, John Fasullo2, Michael Mayer3, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda4 and Jiang Zhu5, (1)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, Austria, Vienna, Austria, (4)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, (5)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China
Seismic ocean thermometry (518625)
Wenbo Wu1, Zhongwen Zhan1, Jörn Callies2 and Sidao Ni3, (1)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth's Dynamics, Wuhan,Hubei, China
Energetic origins of the Anthropocene: modeling human abundance, distribution and energy use in space and time (519067)
Robbie Burger, University of Arizona, Institute of the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States, Mikka Tallavaara, University of Helsinki, Department of Geosciences and Geography, Helsinki, Finland, Trevor Fristoe, University of Konstanz, Department of Biology, St. Louis, Germany, Miska Luoto, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, John Schramski, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, Vanessa Weinberger, GEMA Center for Genomics, Ecology & Environment, Santiago, Chile, Jordan G Okie, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States and Bridging Biodiversity and Conservation Science Program University of Arizona
Increase in the rate of ocean warming (520574)
John P Abraham, University of St Thomas, St. Paul, MN, United States, Cheng Lijing, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Beijing, China, Kevin E Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Zeke Hausfather, Berkeley Earth, Berkeley, CA, United States and Grant Foster, Tempo Analytics, Old Town, United States
Improved estimates of ocean heat content for understanding the Earth's Energy Imbalance. (520825)
Tim Boyer, National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, MD, United States; National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS/NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Ricardo A Locarnini, NOAA NODC, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Alexey V Mishonov, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and James R Reagan, ESSIC - University of Maryland, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Top-of-atmosphere radiation budget derived from the ERBS wide field of view instrument (545106)
Antonio Viudez-Mora1, Takmeng Wong1, Paul W Stackhouse Jr1 and Seiji Kato2, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States
What can sea level change tell us about Earth’s energy imbalance? (560397)
Maria Zita Hakuba, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, Thomas Frederikse, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Felix W Landerer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Impact of Sea Surface Temperature Variability vs. Anthropogenic Forcing on the Top-of-Atmosphere Radiation Budget (566999)
Shiv Priyam Raghuraman, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, David Paynter, NOAA GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States and V Ramaswamy, NOAA/OAR/ GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States
Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions and their Footprint on Heat Transport Variability in the Northern Hemisphere (577439)
Jisk Attema, Netherlands eScience Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Yang Liu, Wageningen University and Research Center, Meteorology and Air Quality Group, Wageningen, Netherlands and Wilco Hazeleger, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Decomposing observed radiative flux changes during the A-Train satellite era (581784)
Ryan J. Kramer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Haozhe He, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, Brian J. Soden, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States and Lazaros Oreopoulos, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Global surface energy and water cycle variability 2001-2011 from satellite data. (601280)
Keith Haines1, Bo Dong2, Christopher Thomas2, Chunlei Liu2 and Richard Philip Allan3, (1)University of Reading, Meteorology, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (2)University of Reading, Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)University of Reading, READING, United Kingdom
Variability in the Global Energy Budget and Transports 1985-2017 (487245)
Chun Lei Liu, Qingdao, Shandong, China, Richard Philip Allan, University of Reading, READING, United Kingdom and Jianjun Xu, Guangdong Ocean University, Guangdong, China
