The deep-ocean heat uptake in transient climate change

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1352-1363

  Huang, Boyin ^a   Stone, Peter H ^a   Sokolov, Andrei P ^a   Kamenkovich, Igor V ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

DEEP-OCEAN HEAT UPTAKE (DOHU);

GLOBAL WARMING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEEP WATER; FRESHWATER INPUT; HEAT FLUX; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; WARMING;

EID: 0037592697     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442-16.9.1352     Document Type: Article

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