Recent Energy Balance of Earth

作     者：Robert S. Knox David H. Douglass 

作者机构：不详 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Geosciences》 (地球科学国际期刊（英文）)

年 卷 期：2010年第1卷第3期

页      面：99-101页

学科分类：07[理学] 070601[理学-气象学] 0706[理学-大气科学] 

主　　题：Energy Balance Radiative Imbalance Ocean Heat Content 

摘      要：A recently published estimate of Earth’s global warming trend is 0.63 ± 0.28 W/m2, as calculated from ocean heat content anomaly data spanning 1993-2008. This value is not representative of the recent (2003-2008) warming/cooling rate because of a “flattening that occurred around 2001-2002. Using only 2003-2008 data from Argo floats, we find by four different algorithms that the recent trend ranges from –0.010 to –0.161 W/m2 with a typical error bar of ±0.2 W/m2. These results fail to support the existence of a frequently-cited large positive computed radiative imbalance.