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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Zeitschriften
DOI 10.5194/esd-14-609-2023
Lizenz creative commons licence
Titel (primär) Continental heat storage: contributions from the ground, inland waters, and permafrost thawing
Autor Cuesta-Valero, F.J.; Beltrami, H.; García-García, A.; Krinner, G.; Langer, M.; MacDougall, A.H.; Nitzbon, J.; Peng, J. ORCID logo ; von Schuckmann, K.; Seneviratne, S.I.; Thiery, W.; Vanderkelen, I.; Wu, T.
Quelle Earth System Dynamics
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
Department RS
Band/Volume 14
Heft 3
Seite von 609
Seite bis 627
Sprache englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
Daten-/Softwarelinks https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13603
https://doi.org/10.1890/100125
https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v66.21295
https://doi.org/10.48364/ISIMIP.931371
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7837996
Supplements https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/14/609/2023/esd-14-609-2023-supplement.pdf
Abstract Heat storage within the Earth system is a fundamental metric for understanding climate change. The current energy imbalance at the top of the atmosphere causes changes in energy storage within the ocean, the atmosphere, the cryosphere, and the continental landmasses. After the ocean, heat storage in land is the second largest term of the Earth heat inventory, affecting physical processes relevant to society and ecosystems, such as the stability of the soil carbon pool. Here, we present an update of the continental heat storage, combining for the first time the heat in the land subsurface, inland water bodies, and permafrost thawing. The continental landmasses stored 23.8 ± 2.0 × 1021 J during the period 1960–2020, but the distribution of heat among the three components is not homogeneous. The sensible diffusion of heat through the ground accounts for ∼90 % of the continental heat storage, with inland water bodies and permafrost degradation (i.e. latent heat) accounting for ∼0.7 % and ∼9 % of the continental heat, respectively. Although the inland water bodies and permafrost soils store less heat than the solid ground, we argue that their associated climate phenomena justify their monitoring and inclusion in the Earth heat inventory.
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Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Beltrami, H., García-García, A., Krinner, G., Langer, M., MacDougall, A.H., Nitzbon, J., Peng, J., von Schuckmann, K., Seneviratne, S.I., Thiery, W., Vanderkelen, I., Wu, T. (2023):
Continental heat storage: contributions from the ground, inland waters, and permafrost thawing
Earth Syst. Dynam. 14 (3), 609 - 627 10.5194/esd-14-609-2023