Table 2 Temporal change (2000s minus 1990s) of North Atlantic water age and Apparent Oxygen Utilization (AOU) across multi-model mean and seven individual Earth System models
Variable | Models | Mean | Median | Mode | Volume weighted mean |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ΔWater age (yr) | Multi-model meana | +2.3 ± 1.2 | +2.3 ± 0.7 | +1.7 ± 1.1 | +2.3 ± 0.9 |
CanESM5 | +3.6 | +2.6 | +1.7 | +3.8 | |
EC-Earth3-CC | +4.0 | +3.4 | +2.6 | +2.6 | |
MRI-ESM2-0 | +2.6 | +2.5 | +1.4 | +2.2 | |
NorESM2-LM | +2.1 | +2.5 | +2.6 | +2.7 | |
NorESM2-MM | +1.3 | +2.6 | +2.8 | +2.4 | |
UKESM1-0-LL | +0.7 | +1.2 | -0.5 | +1.1 | |
FOCI-MOPS | +1.7 | +1.6 | +1.6 | +1.3 | |
ΔAOU (μmol/kg) | Multi-model meana | +0.8 ± 0.3 | +0.7 ± 0.4 | +0.5 ± 0.3 | +0.6 ± 0.2 |
CanESM5 | +0.5 | +0.5 | +0.6 | +0.5 | |
EC-Earth3-CC | +1.3 | +1.3 | +0.8 | +0.4 | |
MRI-ESM2-0 | +0.4 | +0.3 | +0.2 | +0.7 | |
NorESM2-LM | +0.8 | +0.8 | +0.9 | +0.8 | |
NorESM2-MM | +0.9 | +0.5 | +0.4 | +0.6 | |
UKESM1-0-LL | +1.1 | +1.1 | +0.2 | +1.0 | |
FOCI-MOPS | +0.5 | +0.2 | +0.3 | +0.4 |