Correction to “Revisiting the Earth's sea‐level and energy budgets from 1961 to 2008”

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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 40, 4066, doi:10.1002/grl.50752, 2013 Correction to “Revisiting the Earth’s sea-level and energy budgets from 1961 to 2008” John A. Church, Neil J. White, Leonard F. Konikow, Catia M. Domingues, J. Graham Cogley, Eric Rignot, Jonathan M. Gregory, Michiel R. van den Broeke, Andrew J. Monaghan, and Isabella Velicogna Received 5 July 2013; accepted 12 July 2013; published 8 August 2013. Citation: Church, J. A., N. J. White, L. F. Konikow, C. M. Domingues, J. Graham Cogley, E. Rignot, J. M. Gregory, M. R. van den Broeke, A. J. Monaghan, and I. Velicogna (2013), Correction to “Revisiting the Earth’s sea-level and energy budgets from 1961 to 2008”, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 4066, doi:10.1002/grl.50752. [ 1 ] In the paper “Revisiting the Earth’s sea-level and energy budgets from 1961 to 2008” by John A. Church et al. (Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L18601, doi:10.1029/ 2011GL048794, 2011), the 0–700 m thermosteric sea level and ocean heat content time series, updated from Domingues et al. [2008], did not reflect global estimates because the contribution from the South Indian Ocean was accidentally omitted. This error does not lead to visible differences in Figure 2a or Table 1 and only contributes to a minimal difference in Figure 3. However, it does affect the shallow ocean (larger by 22%–24%), the total ocean (larger by 13%–14%), the total storage (larger by 12%–13%), and the total forcing minus total storage (reduced by 3%) terms in Table 2. The corrected Table 2 is reproduced below. The overall conclusions are also not affected by the above error. The corrected time series (version 2.0) used herein are available at http://www.cmar.csiro.au/ sealevel/thermal_expansion_ocean_heat_timeseries.html. Reference Domingues, C. M., J. A. Church, N. J. White, P. J. Gleckler, S. E. Wijffels, P. M. Barker, and J. R. Dunn (2008), Improved estimates of upper-ocean warming and multi-decadal sea-level rise, Nature, 453(7198), 1090–1093, doi:10.1038/nature07080. Table 2. The Earth’s Heat Budget a Component Shallow ocean (0–700 m) Deep ocean (700–3000 m) Abyssal ocean (3000 m bottom) Total ocean storage Glaciers (Latent only) Antarctica (Latent only) Greenland (Latent only) Sea ice Continents Atmosphere Total other storage Total storage 217.5 b Solar + Ozone + well-mixed GHGs Energy consumption Volcanic Outgoing radiation Total forcing Total forcing A Total storage a The integrated changes in the heat storage and the radiative forcing are in units of 10 J. The total forcing minus the total storage is the amount of energy that must be balanced by the aerosol cooling (or other climate forcing). b Bold numbers indicate sum of other rows, as indicated in first column. ©2013. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. 0094-8276/13/10.1002/grl.50752