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Presented By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Dorr Lecture - Dr. Joern Callies, California Institute of Technology

Using earthquakes to measure ocean warming

Dr. Joern Callies, California Institute of Technology Dr. Joern Callies, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Joern Callies, California Institute of Technology
More than 90% of the energy trapped on Earth by increasingly abundant greenhouse gases is absorbed by the ocean. Despite much progress over the past 20 years, monitoring the resulting ocean warming remains a challenging sampling problem. In this talk, I will present a new method that complements existing point measurements by inferring basin-scale deep-ocean temperature change from the travel times of sound waves that are generated by repeating earthquakes. I will show results from the East Indian Ocean and the Northwest Pacific Ocean. The measurements capture deep-ocean temperature variations on time scales from a few days to a decade. The approximate vertical structure of these variations can be inferred using measurements at different frequencies. I will argue that the new method, if extended globally, offers useful new constraints on the deep-ocean uptake and transport of heat.
Dr. Joern Callies, California Institute of Technology Dr. Joern Callies, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Joern Callies, California Institute of Technology

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