MapEval4OceanHeat (ME4OH): an objective assessment of mapping methods used to estimate ocean heat content change

Donata Giglio1, Matthew D Palmer2, Didier Monselesan3, Catia M Domingues4, Anrijs Abele5, Rémy Asselot6, Tim Boyer7, Lijing Cheng8, Gael Forget9, Fourest Sebastien10, Marlos P Goes11, Maria Zita Hakuba12, Leon Hermanson13, Gregory C Johnson14, Rachel Elizabeth Killick15, Nicolas Kolodziejczyk16, Mikael Kuusela17, William Llovel18, Dr. John M Lyman19, Benoit Meyssignac20, Katie Mills1, Doug M Smith15, Thea Sukianto21, Charles Troupin22 and Zhankun Wang23, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Bristol, United Kingdom, (3)CSIRO, Environment, Hobart, TAS, Australia, (4)National Oceanography Centre, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-operative Research Centre, United Kingdom, (5)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (6)BRGM, 24 avenue Léonard de Vinci, F-33600 Pessac, France, Pessac, France, (7)NOAA NCEI, Washington, United States, (8)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (9)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, EAPS, Cambridge, United States, (10)Centre National d'Études Spatiales, Toulouse, France, (11)Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (12)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (13)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, (14)Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, United States, (15)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, (16)UBO, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, Laboratoire d’Oceanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), Plouzane, France, Plouzane, France, (17)Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, Pittsburgh, United States, (18)CNRS, Plouzané, France, (19)JIMAR/PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States, (20)Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France, (21)Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Pittsburgh, United States, (22)Université de Liège, AGO-GHER, Liege, Belgium, (23)NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI-MD, Silver Spring, United States