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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-547-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-547-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
02 May 2024
Research article |
| 02 May 2024
| 02 May 2024
First comprehensive assessment of industrial-era land heat uptake from multiple sources
Faculty of Physical Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Geosciences Institute (IGEO, CSIC-UCM), Madrid, Spain
Jesús Fidel González-Rouco
Faculty of Physical Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Geosciences Institute (IGEO, CSIC-UCM), Madrid, Spain
Camilo Melo-Aguilar
Balearic Ocean Centre, Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC), Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Norman Julius Steinert
NORCE, Norwegian Research Centre, Climate and Environment, Bergen, Norway
Elena García-Bustamante
Department of Energy, Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
Philip de Vrese
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Johann Jungclaus
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Stephan Lorenz
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Stefan Hagemann
Institute of Coastal Systems – Analysis and Modeling, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht, Germany
Francisco José Cuesta-Valero
Department of Remote Sensing, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Remote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Almudena García-García
Department of Remote Sensing, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Remote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Hugo Beltrami
Climate and Atmospheric Sciences Institute, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada
Data sets
MPI-ESM1.2-LR P2k+ with a deep version of JSBACH (MPI-ESM P2k+d) F. García-Pereira et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10364950
Model code and software
ConForM: a one-dimensional heat Conduction Forward Model F. García-Pereira and J. F. González-Rouco https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10371439
Short summary
According to climate model estimates, the land stored 2 % of the system's heat excess in the last decades, while observational studies show it was around 6 %. This difference stems from these models using land components that are too shallow to constrain land heat uptake. Deepening the land component does not affect the surface temperature. This result can be used to derive land heat uptake estimates from different sources, which are much closer to previous observational reports.
According to climate model estimates, the land stored 2 % of the system's heat excess in the...
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