Table 1 Trends of global area mean OHC and correlation coefficients (r) between the OHCT and the FT (observation-based global area mean net radiative fluxes at the top of atmosphere) or FS (the global area mean net ocean surface energy flux)

From: Assessment of the global ocean heat content and North Atlantic heat transport over 1993–2020

Depth

Datasets

OHC trend (Wm−2)

r (Fs)

r (FT)

1993–2017

2005–2017

1993–2017

2005–2017

1993–2017

2005–2017

0–300 m

ORAS5

0.38 ± 0.01

0.26 ± 0.01

0.44

0.76

0.49

0.72

GLORYS

0.45 ± 0.01

0.28 ± 0.01

0.25

0.57

0.17

0.40

FOAM

0.39 ± 0.02

0.23 ± 0.02

0.17

0.37

0.13

0.21

CGLORS

0.38 ± 0.01

0.25 ± 0.01

0.15

0.61

0.12

0.46

IAP

0.35 ± 0.01

0.20 ± 0.01

−0.08

0.51

−0.14

0.38

0–700 m

ORAS5

0.64 ± 0.01

0.45 ± 0.01

0.41

0.71

0.41

0.61

GLORYS

0.77 ± 0.01

0.43 ± 0.02

0.24

0.53

0.14

0.32

FOAM

0.60 ± 0.03

0.36 ± 0.04

0.11

0.26

0.08

0.12

CGLORS

0.57 ± 0.01

0.41 ± 0.01

−0.002

0.45

−0.08

0.27

IAP

0.57 ± 0.01

0.31 ± 0.01

−0.14

0.39

−0.19

0.25

0–2000 m

ORAS5

1.09 ± 0.01

0.84 ± 0.01

0.28

0.46

0.26

0.31

GLORYS

1.00 ± 0.02

0.52 ± 0.04

0.20

0.42

0.13

0.23

FOAM

0.74 ± 0.08

0.75 ± 0.07

0.07

0.18

0.09

0.05

CGLORS

0.71 ± 0.01

0.71 ± 0.02

0.04

0.37

−0.05

0.25

IAP

0.87 ± 0.01

0.61 ± 0.01

−0.09

0.33

−0.13

0.20

Full Depth

ORAS5

1.11 ± 0.01

0.88 ± 0.01

0.30

0.46

0.29

0.32

GLORYS

0.75 ± 0.02

0.27 ± 0.05

0.29

0.40

0.24

0.25

FOAM

0.94 ± 0.08

0.99 ± 0.07

0.06

0.19

0.08

0.07

CGLORS

0.85 ± 0.02

1.11 ± 0.02

0.24

0.30

0.15

0.22

IAP

0.72 ± 0.01

0.69 ± 0.01

0.58

0.34

0.60

0.51

  1. Mean FT 0.61 0.79
  2. Mean FS 0.58 0.74
  3. The OHC trend is computed using the central difference of OHC divide by the global surface area (see data and methods section for details). Significant trend is in bold after applying the Mann–Kendall test at a significance level of 0.01. Significant r is also in bold after applying the two tailed test using Pearson critical values at the level of 0.01. Note r is calculated from 12 month running mean time series. Observed mean FT and mean FS from DEEPC is listed below the table.