Retraction Note: Quantification of ocean heat uptake from changes in atmospheric O2 and CO2 composition

Published: 25 September 2019
 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1585-5

 The original article was published on 31 October 2018

Author Affiliations

Affiliations

1. Department of Geosciences and Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

   • L. Resplandy

2. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

   • R. F. Keeling
   • , Y. Eddebbar
   •  & M. K. Brooks

3. Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

   • R. Wang

4. LMD/IPSL, ENS, PSL Research University, École Polytechnique, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Paris, France

   • L. Bopp

5. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA

   • M. C. Long

6. NOAA, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA

   • J. P. Dunne

7. GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany

   • W. Koeve
   •  & A. Oschlies

Retraction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0651-8,
published online 31 October 2018.


Shortly after publication, arising from comments from Nicholas Lewis, we realized that our reported uncertainties were underestimated owing to our treatment of certain systematic errors as random errors.

In addition, we became aware of several smaller issues in our analysis of uncertainty. Although correcting these issues did not substantially change the central estimate of ocean warming, it led to a roughly fourfold increase in uncertainties, significantly weakening implications for an upward revision of ocean warming and climate sensitivity.
Because of these weaker implications, the Nature editors asked for a Retraction, which we accept.
Despite the revised uncertainties, our method remains valid and provides an estimate of ocean warming that is independent of the ocean data underpinning other approaches. The revised paper, with corrected uncertainties, will be submitted to another journal. The Retraction will contain a link to the new publication, if and when it is published.



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