BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//18.83.4.138//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Oceans at MIT X-WR-CALDESC:Striving to understand\, harness and sustain Earth'\;s def ining frontier. X-FROM-URL:http://oceans.mit.edu X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20171105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20181104T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180311T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20170620T150500-02mm6q7uplh244fa4f7at8slfk_R20170530T190500@google.com DTSTAMP:20180503T082247Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:WHOI Seminar | Physical Oceanography CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Observations show that the upper ocean has been warming since t he 1970s\, and it is usually attributed to global warming that is associat ed with the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere . The global ocean is implicitly considered as a passive heat reservoir\, and it is assumed that the ocean was in equilibrium with the atmosphere be fore the anthropogenic global warming had occurred. However\, the global o cean is a dynamically active heat exchanger involving processes of various temporal and spatial scales and has a memory of thousands of years. Not o nly the heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere but the vertical heat f lux passing the lower face of the upper ocean contribute to the changes in the observed upper ocean heat content. In this talk\, I will present the mean and the bidecadal change of the ocean vertical heat flux as well as t he related physical processes from a dynamically consistent and data-const rained ocean state estimate - ECCO (Estimating the Circulation & Climate o f the Ocean). Implications of the vertical redistribution of ocean heat on the changes of the upper and deep ocean heat contents\, particularly the recently much-debated global warming 'hiatus'\, will also be discussed. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170620T150500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170620T160500 LOCATION:Clark 507 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Xinfeng Liang\, U. South Florida. ‘Vertical Redistribution of the G lobal Oceanic Heat Content’. Clark 507 URL:http://oceans.mit.edu/event/xinfeng-liang-u-south-florida-tbd-clark-507 -2 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nObservations sho w that the upper ocean has been warming since the 1970s\, and it is usuall y attributed to global warming that is associated with the increasing conc entration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The global ocean is impli citly considered as a passive heat reservoir\, and it is assumed that the ocean was in equilibrium with the atmosphere before the anthropogenic glob al warming had occurred. However\, the global ocean is a dynamically activ e heat exchanger involving processes of various temporal and spatial scale s and has a memory of thousands of years. Not only the heat exchange betwe en ocean and atmosphere but the vertical heat flux passing the lower face of the upper ocean contribute to the changes in the observed upper ocean h eat content. In this talk\, I will present the mean and the bidecadal chan ge of the ocean vertical heat flux as well as the related physical process es from a dynamically consistent and data-constrained ocean state estimate - ECCO (Estimating the Circulation & Climate of the Ocean). Implications of the vertical redistribution of ocean heat on the changes of the upper a nd deep ocean heat contents\, particularly the recently much-debated globa l warming 'hiatus'\, will also be discussed. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR