Preprints
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1243
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1243
03 May 2024
 | 03 May 2024

TEOS-10 and the Climatic Relevance of Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction

Rainer Feistel

Abstract. Unpredicted observations in the climate system, such as recently an excessive ocean warming, are often lacking immediate causal explanations and are challenging the numerical models. As a highly advanced mathematical tool, the Thermodynamic Equation of Seawater – 2010 (TEOS-10) had been established by international bodies as an interdisciplinary standard and is recommended for use in geophysics, such as especially in climate research. From its very beginning, the development of TEOS-10 was supported by Ocean Science through publishing successive stages and results. Here, history and properties of TEOS-10 are briefly reviewed. With focus on the air-sea interface, selected current problems of climate research are discussed and tutorial examples for the possible use of TEOS-10 in the associated context are presented, such as related to ocean heat content, latent heat and rate of marine evaporation, properties of sea spray aerosol, or climatic effects of low-level clouds. Appended to this article, a list of publications and their metrics is provided for illustrating the uptake of TEOS-10 by the scientific community, along with some continued activities, addressing still pending, connected issues such as uniform standard definitions of uncertainties, of relative humidity, seawater salinity or pH.

This article is dedicated to the Jubilee celebrating 20 years of Ocean Science.

Publisher's note: Copernicus Publications remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims made in the text, published maps, institutional affiliations, or any other geographical representation in this preprint. The responsibility to include appropriate place names lies with the authors.
Rainer Feistel

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2024-1243', Trevor McDougall, 11 May 2024
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Rainer Feistel, 16 May 2024
  • RC2: 'Comment on egusphere-2024-1243', Remi Tailleux, 09 Jun 2024
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Rainer Feistel, 12 Jun 2024
  • CC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2024-1243', Pascal Marquet, 16 Jun 2024
    • AC3: 'Reply on CC1', Rainer Feistel, 17 Jun 2024
      • CC2: 'Reply on AC3', Pascal Marquet, 25 Jun 2024
  • CC3: 'Comment on egusphere-2024-1243', Olaf Hellmuth, 28 Jun 2024
  • AC4: 'Comment on egusphere-2024-1243', Rainer Feistel, 22 Jul 2024

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2024-1243', Trevor McDougall, 11 May 2024
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Rainer Feistel, 16 May 2024
  • RC2: 'Comment on egusphere-2024-1243', Remi Tailleux, 09 Jun 2024
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Rainer Feistel, 12 Jun 2024
  • CC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2024-1243', Pascal Marquet, 16 Jun 2024
    • AC3: 'Reply on CC1', Rainer Feistel, 17 Jun 2024
      • CC2: 'Reply on AC3', Pascal Marquet, 25 Jun 2024
  • CC3: 'Comment on egusphere-2024-1243', Olaf Hellmuth, 28 Jun 2024
  • AC4: 'Comment on egusphere-2024-1243', Rainer Feistel, 22 Jul 2024
Rainer Feistel
Rainer Feistel

Viewed

Total article views: 596 (including HTML, PDF, and XML)
HTML PDF XML Total BibTeX EndNote
447 107 42 596 14 23
  • HTML: 447
  • PDF: 107
  • XML: 42
  • Total: 596
  • BibTeX: 14
  • EndNote: 23
Views and downloads (calculated since 03 May 2024)
Cumulative views and downloads (calculated since 03 May 2024)

Viewed (geographical distribution)

Total article views: 584 (including HTML, PDF, and XML) Thereof 584 with geography defined and 0 with unknown origin.
Country # Views %
  • 1
1
 
 
 
 

Cited

Latest update: 05 Oct 2024
Download
Short summary
1. Global warming occurs to 90 % in the ocean but is insufficiently understood at the air-sea interface. 2. Thermodynamics of the standard TEOS-10 is an improved tool for the description of heat exchange processes.