Mitigation-driven global heat imbalance in the late 21st century
<p><span style="font-family:'AdvOTf0129623';font-size:10.000000pt;">While the changes in ocean heat uptake in a warming climate have been well explored, the changes in response to climate mitigation efforts remain unclear. Using coupled climate model simulations, here we </span><span style="font-family:'AdvOTf0129623+fb';font-size:10.000000pt;">fi</span><span style="font-family:'AdvOTf0129623';font-size:10.000000pt;">nd that in response to a hypothesized reduction of greenhouse gases in the late 21st century, ocean heat uptake would signi</span><span style="font-family:'AdvOTf0129623+fb';font-size:10.000000pt;">fi</span><span style="font-family:'AdvOTf0129623';font-size:10.000000pt;">cantly decline in all ocean basins except the North Atlantic, where a persistently weakened Atlantic meridional overturning circulation results in sustained heat uptake. These prolonged circulation anomalies further lead to interbasin heat exchanges, characterized by a sustained heat export from the Atlantic to the Southern Ocean and a portion of heat transfer from the Southern Ocean to the Indo-Paci</span><span style="font-family:'AdvOTf0129623+fb';font-size:10.000000pt;">fi</span><span style="font-family:'AdvOTf0129623';font-size:10.000000pt;">c. Due to ocean heat uptake decline and interbasin heat export, the Southern Ocean experiences the strongest decline in ocean heat storage therefore emerging as the primary heat exchanger, while heat changes in the Indo-Paci</span><span style="font-family:'AdvOTf0129623+fb';font-size:10.000000pt;">fi</span><span style="font-family:'AdvOTf0129623';font-size:10.000000pt;">c basin are relatively limited.</span></p>
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