Heat stored in the Earth system: where does the energy go?

The Earth energy imbalance due to climate change is dominated by energy/heat accumulating in the ocean (89%). Long-term sustained observations of the ocean coordinated through GOOS and GCOS continue to track this imbalance, and whether our mitigation efforts work.
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