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2026 Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

AAS: Ocean Heat Content Sets Another Record in 2025

In 2025, the Earth oceans stored more heat than ever before — about 23 Zetta Joules (ZJ).

Citation: Pan, Y. Y., and Coauthors: 2026: Ocean Heat Content Sets Another Record in 2025. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences,1-19

2025 Nature Climate Change

[ENG] NCC: large-scale and deep-reaching compound ocean state changes over the past 60 years

It is important to understand the combined effects of multiple changes on the ocean. Here, we use time of emergence to highlight the increases in impacts of individual and compound changes globally from the surface to the deeper ocean, identifying areas most affected.

Citation: Tan, Z., K. v. Schuckmann, S. Speich, L. Bopp, J. Zhu, and L. Cheng. (2025): Observed large-scale and deep-reaching compound ocean state changes over the past 60 years. Nature Climate Change. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02484-x

2025 Scientific Data

CODC-S: a quality-controlled global ocean salinity profiles dataset

This paper is about a quality-controlled global ocean salinity profiles dataset (CODC-S) used to support diverse oceanographic and climatic research

Citation: Tan Z, Zhu Y, Cheng L, Gouretski V, Pan Y, Yuan H, Wang Z, Li G, Song X, Zhang B, Bao S, Li Y, Zhu J. 2025. CODC-S: A quality-controlled global ocean salinity profiles dataset. Scientific Data, 12: 917. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05172-9

2025 Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Record High Temperatures in the Ocean in 2024

This paper is about the sea surface temperatures and deeper water temperatures reached a new record high in 2024

Citation: Cheng L. J. Abraham, K. E. Trenberth, J. Reagan, H.-M. Zhang, A. Storto, K. von Schuckmann, Y. Pan, Y. Zhu, M. E. Mann, J. Zhu, F. Wang, F. Yu, R. Locarnini, J. Fasullo, B. Huang, G. Graham, X. Yin, V. Gouretski, F. Zheng, Y. Li, B. Zhang, L. Wan, X. Chen, D. Wang, L. Feng, X. Song, Y. Liu, F. Reseghetti, S. Simoncelli, G. Chen, R. Zhang, A. Mishonov, Z. Tan, W. Wei, H. Yuan, G. Li, Q. Ren, L. Cao, Y. Lu, J. Du, K. Lyu, A. Sulaiman, M. Mayer, H. Wang, Z. Ma, S. Bao, H. Yan, Z. Liu, C. Yang, X. Liu, Z. Hausfather, T. Szekely, F. Gues: 2025: Record High Temperatures in the Ocean in 2024. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

2024 Earth System Science Data

IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset

This paper is about the release of the IAP temperature grid data (version 4)

Citation: Cheng, L., Pan, Y., Tan, Z., Zheng, H., Zhu, Y., Wei, W., Du, J., Yuan, H., Li, G., Ye, H., Gouretski, V., Li, Y., Trenberth, K., Abraham, J., Jin, Y., Reseghetti, F., Lin, X., Zhang, B., Chen, G., Mann, M., and Zhu, J., 2024: IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset, Earth Syst. Sci. Data.

2023 Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

A new ocean data quality control system reveals a stronger ocean warming rate

This paper is about the development of the ocean data quality control algorithm (CODC-QC)

Citation: Tan Z, Cheng L*, Gouretski V, Zhang B, Wang Y, Li F, Liu Z, and Zhu J., 2023: A new automatic quality control system for ocean profile observations and impact on ocean warming estimate. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 194, 103961