Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Extreme weather events and sea level rise are increasing, intensified by a warming ocean. Understanding heat in the ocean can help better predict extreme weather and long-term climate shifts. A network of robotic instruments called Argo is helping scientists track warming beneath the surface and it’s showing us the ocean's heat content is increasing steeply. This video shares just how much the ocean is warming, and how the Argo program needs more support to continue to give society the full picture of ocean warming.
#Argo #OceanWarming #OceanHeat #MarineHeatWaves #ScrippsOceanography #UCSanDiego #COP28
Animation by Jessica Kendall-Bar. jessiekb.com
Science Advisors: Sarah Purkey & Megan Scanderbeg - Climate, Atmospheric Sciences, and Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
Argo data are collected and made freely available by the International Argo Program and the national programs that contribute to it. Argo Website: https://argo.ucsd.edu
Publication: doi.org/10.17882/42182
Other data sources (in order of appearance):
Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution (MUR) Sea Surface Temperature Analysis. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=5101
Monthly Global Sea Surface Temperature Timeseries: OISST V2.1 - ClimateReanalyzer.org, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine. climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_monthly
Internal ocean temperature difference: Roemmich-GiIson Argo Climatology (2009). Anomaly calculated from the over Jan 2004 - Dec 2018 average.
Publication: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2009.03.004
Dataset: https://sio-argo.ucsd.edu/pub/Global_Marine_Argo_Atlas/RG_ArgoClim_Temp.nc,
Ocean heat content: Lyman and Johnson (2014) updated for Johnson et al. (BAMS State of the Climate 2023). climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-ocean-heat-content
Code to generate Argo data visualizations is available via Github at: github.com/jmkendallbar/Argo-Animation
Extreme weather events and sea level rise are increasing, intensified by a warming ocean. Understanding heat in the ocean can help better predict extreme weather and long-term climate shifts. A network of robotic instruments called Argo is helping scientists track warming beneath the surface and it’s showing us the ocean's heat content is increasing steeply. This video shares just how much the ocean is warming, and how the Argo program needs more support to continue to give society the full picture of ocean warming.
#Argo #OceanWarming #OceanHeat #MarineHeatWaves #ScrippsOceanography #UCSanDiego #COP28
Animation by Jessica Kendall-Bar. jessiekb.com
Science Advisors: Sarah Purkey & Megan Scanderbeg - Climate, Atmospheric Sciences, and Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
Argo data are collected and made freely available by the International Argo Program and the national programs that contribute to it. Argo Website: https://argo.ucsd.edu
Publication: doi.org/10.17882/42182
Other data sources (in order of appearance):
Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution (MUR) Sea Surface Temperature Analysis. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=5101
Monthly Global Sea Surface Temperature Timeseries: OISST V2.1 - ClimateReanalyzer.org, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine. climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_monthly
Internal ocean temperature difference: Roemmich-GiIson Argo Climatology (2009). Anomaly calculated from the over Jan 2004 - Dec 2018 average.
Publication: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2009.03.004
Dataset: https://sio-argo.ucsd.edu/pub/Global_Marine_Argo_Atlas/RG_ArgoClim_Temp.nc,
Ocean heat content: Lyman and Johnson (2014) updated for Johnson et al. (BAMS State of the Climate 2023). climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-ocean-heat-content
Code to generate Argo data visualizations is available via Github at: github.com/jmkendallbar/Argo-Animation
