First assessment of continental energy storage in CMIP5 simulations
Although much of the energy gained by the climate system over the last century has been stored in the oceans, continental energy storage remains important to estimate the Earth's energy imbalance and also because crucial positive climate feedback processes such as soil carbon and permafrost sta...
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ftcolumbiauniv:oai:academiccommons.columbia.edu:10.7916/D8C829RJ 2023-05-15T17:57:40+02:00 First assessment of continental energy storage in CMIP5 simulations Cuesta-Valero, Francisco José García-García, Almudena Beltrami, Hugo Smerdon, Jason E. 2016 https://doi.org/10.7916/D8C829RJ English eng American Geophysical Union https://doi.org/10.7916/D8C829RJ Climatic changes Energy storage Heat storage Geothermal resources Geophysics Articles 2016 ftcolumbiauniv https://doi.org/10.7916/D8C829RJ 2019-04-04T08:15:24Z Although much of the energy gained by the climate system over the last century has been stored in the oceans, continental energy storage remains important to estimate the Earth's energy imbalance and also because crucial positive climate feedback processes such as soil carbon and permafrost stability depend on continental energy storage. Here for the first time, 32 general circulation model simulations from the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) are examined to assess their ability to characterize the continental energy storage. Results display a consistently lower magnitude of continental energy storage in CMIP5 simulations than the estimates from geothermal data. A large range in heat storage is present across the model ensemble, which is largely explained by the substantial differences in the bottom boundary depths used in each land surface component. Article in Journal/Newspaper permafrost Columbia University: Academic Commons |
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Although much of the energy gained by the climate system over the last century has been stored in the oceans, continental energy storage remains important to estimate the Earth's energy imbalance and also because crucial positive climate feedback processes such as soil carbon and permafrost stability depend on continental energy storage. Here for the first time, 32 general circulation model simulations from the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) are examined to assess their ability to characterize the continental energy storage. Results display a consistently lower magnitude of continental energy storage in CMIP5 simulations than the estimates from geothermal data. A large range in heat storage is present across the model ensemble, which is largely explained by the substantial differences in the bottom boundary depths used in each land surface component. |
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Cuesta-Valero, Francisco José García-García, Almudena Beltrami, Hugo Smerdon, Jason E. |
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Cuesta-Valero, Francisco José García-García, Almudena Beltrami, Hugo Smerdon, Jason E. |
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Cuesta-Valero, Francisco José |
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First assessment of continental energy storage in CMIP5 simulations |
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First assessment of continental energy storage in CMIP5 simulations |
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First assessment of continental energy storage in CMIP5 simulations |
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First assessment of continental energy storage in CMIP5 simulations |
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American Geophysical Union |
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