ArticleNature communications2021
Anthropogenic forcing and response yield observed positive trend in Earth's energy imbalance.
Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Negligible contribution from aerosols to recent trends in Earth's energy imbalance.Science advances · 2025Article
- Observation-based estimate of Earth's effective radiative forcing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Confronting Earth System Model trends with observations.Science advances · 2025Review
- Global and regional drivers for exceptional climate extremes in 2023-2024: beyond the new normal.NPJ climate and atmospheric science · 2025Article
- Recent Advances in the Observation and Modeling of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions, Cloud Feedbacks, and Earth's Energy Imbalance: A Review.Current pollution reports · 2025Review
- Observational Assessment of Changes in Earth's Energy Imbalance Since 2000.Surveys in geophysics · 2024Review
- Robust acceleration of Earth system heating observed over the past six decades.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Anthropogenic aerosol and cryosphere changes drive Earth's strong but transient clear-sky hemispheric albedo asymmetry.Communications earth & environment · 2022Article
- Anthropogenic forcing and response yield observed positive trend in Earth's energy imbalance.Nature communications · 2021Article
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Abstract
The observed trend in Earth's energy imbalance (TEEI), a measure of the acceleration of heat uptake by the planet, is a fundamental indicator of perturbations to climate. Satellite observations (2001-2020) reveal a significant positive globally-averaged TEEI of 0.38 ± 0.24 Wm
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