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  • 标题:The Ocean’s Role in Climate
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  • 作者:Raymond Schmitt ; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • 期刊名称:Oceanography - Oceanography Society
  • 印刷版ISSN:1042-8275
  • 出版年度:2018
  • 卷号:31
  • 期号:2
  • 页码:32-40
  • DOI:10.5670/oceanog.2018.225
  • 出版社:Oceanography Society
  • 摘要:RIGHT.  The “Blue Marble”: GOES-7 satellite image of the Pacific Ocean, North and South America, and Hurricane Andrew, August 25, 1992.  Image credit: NASA/JPL/GSFC.  > High res figure Oceanographers have arrived late to the climate problem. Continuous climate records longer than a century or more are available for many cities, but are unheard of for the ocean. In the last 30 years, there has been great progress in expanding ocean observations to the point that we can start to address climate problems, but the shortness of the records is a constant impediment to progress. Of course, we are also now in an era when the climate problem looms larger than ever. Once the unhurried domain of state climatologists, the rapid buildup of atmospheric CO 2  in the industrial era has turned climate into one of the most critical of all research topics. While we remain limited by short time series, the basics physics of the climate system assures a significant place for the ocean because it dominates the planetary reservoirs of heat, water, and CO 2 . This article summarizes the ocean’s essential contributions to the maintenance of Earth’s climate and asserts the need for sustaining a high quality ocean observing system for the long durations necessary to observe and understand climate.
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