On the sensitivity of projected oceanic thermal expansion to the parameterisation of sub-grid scale ocean mixing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 3461-3464

  Weaver, Andrew J ^a   Wiebe, Edward C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; SEA LEVEL; THERMAL EXPANSION;

OCEANIC THERMAL EXPANSION; SUB-GRID SCALE OCEAN MIXING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; THERMAL EXPANSION;

EID: 0033502848     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL002362     Document Type: Article

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