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Levitus et al. 2005

Levitus, S., Antonov, J. and Boyer, T. (2005). Warming of the world ocean, 1955–2003. Geophysical Research Letters 32: doi: 10.1029/2004GL021592. issn: 0094-8276.

We present new estimates of the variability of ocean heat content based on: a) additional data that extends the record to more recent years; b) additional historical data for earlier years. During 1955--1998 world ocean heat content (0--3000 m) increased 14.5 ¿ 1022 J corresponding to a mean temperature increase of 0.037¿C at a rate of 0.20 Wm-2 (per unit area of Earth's total surface area).

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Keywords
Oceanography, Physical, Decadal ocean variability (1616, 1635, 3305, 4215), Atmospheric Processes, Climate change and variability (1616, 1635, 3309, 4215, 4513), Global Change, Oceans (1616, 3305, 4215, 4513)

Journal
Geophysical Research Letters
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