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Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019

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  • Lijing Cheng1,2,11,
  • John Abraham3,
  • Jiang Zhu1,2,
  • Kevin E. Trenberth4,
  • John Fasullo4,
  • Tim Boyer5,
  • Ricardo Locarnini5,
  • Bin Zhang2,6,
  • Fujiang Yu7,
  • Liying Wan7,
  • Xingrong Chen7,
  • Xiangzhou Song8,
  • Yulong Liu9 &
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  • Michael E. Mann10 

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Acknowledgements

The IAP analysis is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant Nos. 2016YFC1401806 and 2017YFA0603202). Author contributions: LC and JZ are responsible for the IAP analysis; JA and LC drafted the initial manuscript. All coauthors provide continual and vital support to the IAP analysis and activities; plus, they contributed to refining this manuscript. NCAR is sponsored by the US National Science Foundation. TB, RL contribution funded in partnership with the NOAA OAR Ocean Observing and Monitoring Division. The efforts of Dr. Fasullo in this work were partially supported by the Regional and Global Model Analysis (RGMA) component of the Earth and Environmental System Modeling Program of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Biological & Environmental Research (BER) via National Science Foundation IA 1844590. The efforts of Dr. Fasullo in this work were also supported in part by NSF Award #AGS-1419571.

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  1. International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

    Lijing Cheng & Jiang Zhu

  2. Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China

    Lijing Cheng, Jiang Zhu & Bin Zhang

  3. University of St. Thomas, School of Engineering, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55105, USA

    John Abraham

  4. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, 80307, USA

    Kevin E. Trenberth & John Fasullo

  5. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Centers for Environmental Information, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20910, USA

    Tim Boyer & Ricardo Locarnini

  6. Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China

    Bin Zhang

  7. National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, Ministry of Natural Resources of China, Beijing, 100081, China

    Fujiang Yu, Liying Wan & Xingrong Chen

  8. College of Oceanography, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, China

    Xiangzhou Song

  9. National Marine Data and Information Service, TianJin, 300171, China

    Yulong Liu

  10. Department of Meteorology & Atmospheric Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802, USA

    Michael E. Mann

  11. State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Hangzhou, 310012, China

    Lijing Cheng

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Cheng, L., Abraham, J., Zhu, J. et al. Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 37, 137–142 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-020-9283-7

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  • Received: 26 December 2019

  • Revised: 06 January 2020

  • Accepted: 09 January 2020

  • Published: 27 January 2020

  • Issue Date: February 2020

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-020-9283-7

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