Is the world ocean warming? Upper-ocean temperature trends: 1950-2000

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 174-187

  Harrison, D E ^a,b   Carson, Mark ^b  

^a NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GLOBAL WARMING;

OCEAN WARMING; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPPER-OCEAN TEMPERATURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WARMING;

EID: 33947502528     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO3005.1     Document Type: Article

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