Can global warming affect tropical ocean heat transport?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Hazeleger, Wilco ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; ENERGY TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; WIND;

OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT; SUBTROPICAL CELLS;

GLOBAL WARMING;

GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 30744456490     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023450     Document Type: Article

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