Recent bottom water warming in the Pacific Ocean

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 5365-5375

  Johnson, Gregory C ^a   Mecking, Sabine ^b   Sloyan, Bernadette M ^c   Wijffels, Susan E ^c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTHALPY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ABYSSAL TEMPERATURE; BOTTOM WATER WARMING; HEAT GAIN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABYSSAL ZONE; BOTTOM WATER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WARMING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 36348970562     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1879.1     Document Type: Article

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