I. Vanderkelen
Global Heat Uptake by Inland Waters
Vanderkelen, I.; Lipzig, N. P. M.; Lawrence, D. M.; Droppers, B.; Golub, M.; Gosling, S. N.; Janssen, A. B. G.; Marce, R.; Schmied, H. Mller; Perroud, M.; Pierson, D.; Pokhrel, Y.; Satoh, Y.; Schewe, J.; Seneviratne, Sonia I.; Stepanenko, V. M.; Tan, Z.; Woolway, R. I.; Thiery, W.
Authors
N. P. M. Lipzig
D. M. Lawrence
B. Droppers
M. Golub
Dr SIMON GOSLING SIMON.GOSLING@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Climate Risks and Environmental Modelling
A. B. G. Janssen
R. Marce
H. Mller Schmied
M. Perroud
D. Pierson
Y. Pokhrel
Y. Satoh
J. Schewe
Sonia I. Seneviratne
V. M. Stepanenko
Z. Tan
R. I. Woolway
W. Thiery
Abstract
©2020. The Authors. Heat uptake is a key variable for understanding the Earth system response to greenhouse gas forcing. Despite the importance of this heat budget, heat uptake by inland waters has so far not been quantified. Here we use a unique combination of global-scale lake models, global hydrological models and Earth system models to quantify global heat uptake by natural lakes, reservoirs, and rivers. The total net heat uptake by inland waters amounts to 2.6±3.2×1020J over the period 1900–2020, corresponding to 3.6% of the energy stored on land. The overall uptake is dominated by natural lakes (111.7%), followed by reservoir warming (2.3%). Rivers contribute negatively (-14%) due to a decreasing water volume. The thermal energy of water stored in artificial reservoirs exceeds inland water heat uptake by a factor ∼10.4. This first quantification underlines that the heat uptake by inland waters is relatively small, but non-negligible.
Citation
Vanderkelen, I., Lipzig, N. P. M., Lawrence, D. M., Droppers, B., Golub, M., Gosling, S. N., …Thiery, W. (2020). Global Heat Uptake by Inland Waters. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(12), Article e2020GL087867. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087867
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | May 27, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 4, 2020 |
Publication Date | Jun 28, 2020 |
Deposit Date | Jun 10, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 16, 2020 |
Journal | Geophysical Research Letters |
Print ISSN | 0094-8276 |
Electronic ISSN | 1944-8007 |
Publisher | American Geophysical Union |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 47 |
Issue | 12 |
Article Number | e2020GL087867 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087867 |
Keywords | General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Geophysics |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4597564 |
Publisher URL | https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020GL087867 |
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