Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
While other resources exist that present regional or national trends in temperatures, few tools offer such information on a local level. This dashboard helps to fill that gap by providing location-specific information about changes in temperature in the last 52 years.
Increased evaporative demand will be an essential consideration for land and water management planning going forward.
CPO’s Climate Observation Division supported a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters. The goal of this manuscript–”The impact of historical biases on the XBT-derived meridional overturning circulation estimates at 34°S”–is assess how the historical expendable bathythermograph measurement errors may affect the meridional mass and heat transport across one key ocean section in the South Atlantic Ocean.
A new study funded by CPO’s Climate Observations Division was recently published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. The paper, “Early Dynamics of Deep Blue XBT Probes,” focuses on the use of expendable bathythermographs (XBTs)to monitor global ocean heat content, variability of ocean currents, and meridional heat transports.