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DOI | 10.1038/s41561-019-0333-7 |
Global ocean heat transport dominated by heat export from the tropical Pacific | |
Forget, Gael1; Ferreira, David2 | |
2019-05-01 | |
发表期刊 | NATURE GEOSCIENCE |
ISSN | 1752-0894 |
EISSN | 1752-0908 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 12期号:5页码:351-+ |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA; England |
英文摘要 | Heat redistribution is one of the main mechanisms by which oceans regulate Earth's climate. Analyses of ocean heat transport tend to emphasize global-scale seawater pathways and concepts such as the great ocean conveyor belt. However, it is the divergence or convergence of heat transport within an oceanic region, rather than the origin or destination of seawater transiting through that region, that is most immediately relevant to Earth's heat budget. Here we use a recent gridded estimate of ocean heat transport to reveal the net effect on Earth's heat budget, the 'effective' ocean heat transport, by removing internal ocean heat loops that have obscured the interpretation of measurements. The result demonstrates the overwhelming predominance of the tropical Pacific, which exports four times as much heat as is imported in the Atlantic and Arctic. It also highlights the unique ability of the Atlantic and Indian oceans to transport heat across the Equator-Northward and Southward, respectively. However, effective inter-ocean heat transports are smaller than expected, suggesting that global-scale seawater pathways play only a minor role in Earth's heat budget. |
领域 | 地球科学 ; 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000467814100010 |
WOS关键词 | INDONESIAN THROUGHFLOW ; ATMOSPHERE ; FLUX ; CIRCULATION ; FLOW |
WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/183088 |
专题 | 地球科学 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.MIT, Dept Earth Atmospher & Planetary Sci, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA; 2.Univ Reading, Dept Meteorol, Reading, Berks, England |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Forget, Gael,Ferreira, David. Global ocean heat transport dominated by heat export from the tropical Pacific[J]. NATURE GEOSCIENCE,2019,12(5):351-+. |
APA | Forget, Gael,&Ferreira, David.(2019).Global ocean heat transport dominated by heat export from the tropical Pacific.NATURE GEOSCIENCE,12(5),351-+. |
MLA | Forget, Gael,et al."Global ocean heat transport dominated by heat export from the tropical Pacific".NATURE GEOSCIENCE 12.5(2019):351-+. |
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