Earth's Energy Imbalance More Than Doubled in Recent Decades

Mauritsen, Thorsten; Tsushima, Yoko; Meyssignac, Benoit; Loeb, Norman G.; Hakuba, Maria; Pilewskie, Peter; Cole, Jason; Suzuki, Kentaroh; Ackerman, Thomas P.; Allan, Richard P.; Andrews, Timothy; Bender, Frida A.‐M.; Bloch‐Johnson, Jonah; Bodas‐Salcedo, Alejandro; Brookshaw, Anca; Ceppi, Paulo; Clerbaux, Nicolas; Dessler, Andrew E.; Donohoe, Aaron; Dufresne, Jean‐Louis; Eyring, Veronika; Findell, Kirsten L.; Gettelman, Andrew; Gristey, Jake J.; Hawkins, Ed; Heimbach, Patrick; Hewitt, Helene T.; Jeevanjee, Nadir; Jones, Colin; Kang, Sarah M.; Kato, Seiji; Kay, Jennifer E.; Klein, Stephen A.; Knutti, Reto; Kramer, Ryan; Lee, June‐Yi; McCoy, Daniel T.; Medeiros, Brian; Megner, Linda; Modak, Angshuman; Ogura, Tomoo; Palmer, Matthew D.; Paynter, David; Quaas, Johannes; Ramanathan, Veerabhadran; Ringer, Mark; von Schuckmann, Karina; Sherwood, Steven; Stevens, Bjorn; Tan, Ivy; Tselioudis, George; Sutton, Rowan; Voigt, Aiko; Watanabe, Masahiro; Webb, Mark J.; Wild, Martin; Zelinka, Mark D.

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Earth's Energy Imbalance More Than Doubled in Recent Decades

2025
By Mauritsen, Thorsten ; Tsushima, Yoko ; Meyssignac, Benoit ; ...

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AGU Advances
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Mauritsen, Thorsten ; Tsushima, Yoko ; Meyssignac, Benoit ; Loeb, Norman G. ; Hakuba, Maria ; Pilewskie, Peter ; Cole, Jason ; Suzuki, Kentaroh ; Ackerman, Thomas P. ; Allan, Richard P. ; Andrews, Timothy ; Bender, Frida A.‐M. ; Bloch‐Johnson, Jonah ; Bodas‐Salcedo, Alejandro ; Brookshaw, Anca ; Ceppi, Paulo ; Clerbaux, Nicolas ; Dessler, Andrew E. ; Donohoe, Aaron ; Dufresne, Jean‐Louis ; Eyring, Veronika ; Findell, Kirsten L. ; Gettelman, Andrew ; Gristey, Jake J. ; Hawkins, Ed ; Heimbach, Patrick ; Hewitt, Helene T. ; Jeevanjee, Nadir ; Jones, Colin ; Kang, Sarah M. ; Kato, Seiji ; Kay, Jennifer E. ; Klein, Stephen A. ; Knutti, Reto ; Kramer, Ryan ; Lee, June‐Yi ; McCoy, Daniel T. ; Medeiros, Brian ; Megner, Linda ; Modak, Angshuman ; Ogura, Tomoo ; Palmer, Matthew D. ; Paynter, David ; Quaas, Johannes ; Ramanathan, Veerabhadran ; Ringer, Mark ; von Schuckmann, Karina ; Sherwood, Steven ; Stevens, Bjorn ; Tan, Ivy ; Tselioudis, George ; Sutton, Rowan ; Voigt, Aiko ; Watanabe, Masahiro ; Webb, Mark J. ; Wild, Martin ; Zelinka, Mark D.
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OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) ; CSL (Chemical Sciences Laboratory) ; GFDL (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory)
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Global warming results from anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions which upset the delicate balance between the incoming sunlight, and the reflected and emitted radiation from Earth. The imbalance leads to energy accumulation in the atmosphere, oceans and land, and melting of the cryosphere, resulting in increasing temperatures, rising sea levels, and more extreme weather around the globe. Despite the fundamental role of the energy imbalance in regulating the climate system, as known to humanity for more than two centuries, our capacity to observe it is rapidly deteriorating as satellites are being decommissioned.
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AGU Advances, 6(3)
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2024AV001636
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2576-604X ; 2576-604X
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