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Acknowledgements

The IAP analysis is supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFA0603202), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB42040402), and Key Deployment Project of Centre for Ocean Mega-Research of Science, CAS (Grant No. COMS2019Q01). NCAR is sponsored by the US National Science Foundation. The efforts of Dr. FASULLO in this work were supported by NASA Award 80NSSC17K0565, and by the Regional and Global Model Analysis (RGMA) component of the Earth and Environmental System Modeling Program of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Biological & Environmental Research (BER) via National Science Foundation IA 1844590. The efforts of Dr. MISHONOV and Mr. REAGAN were partially supported by NOAA (grant NA14NES4320003 to CISESS-MD at the University of Maryland).

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  1. International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

    Lijing Cheng & Jiang Zhu

  2. Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China

    Lijing Cheng, Bin Zhang & Jiang Zhu

  3. University of St. Thomas, School of Engineering, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55105, USA

    John Abraham

  4. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, 80307, USA

    Kevin E. Trenberth & John Fasullo

  5. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Centers for Environmental Information, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20910, USA

    Tim Boyer, Ricardo Locarnini, Alexey Mishonov & Jim Reagan

  6. Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China

    Bin Zhang

  7. National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, Ministry of Natural Resources of China, Beijing, 100081, China

    Fujiang Yu, Liying Wan & Xingrong Chen

  8. College of Oceanography, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, China

    Xiangzhou Song

  9. National Marine Data and Information Service, Tianjin, 300171, China

    Yulong Liu

  10. Department of Meteorology & Atmospheric Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802, USA

    Michael E. Mann

  11. 1Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, S. Teresa Research Center, Lerici, 19032, Italy

    Franco Reseghetti

  12. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sede di Bologna, Bologna, 40128, Italy

    Simona Simoncelli & Viktor Gouretski

  13. South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, China

    Gengxin Chen

  14. ESSIC/CISESS-MD, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 20742, USA

    Alexey Mishonov & Jim Reagan

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Cheng, L., Abraham, J., Trenberth, K.E. et al. Upper Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High in 2020. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 38, 523–530 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-021-0447-x

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