Is the Upper Ocean warming? Comparisons of 50-year trends from different analyses

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2259-2268

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ENTHALPY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERPOLATION; STANDARDS;

CONFIDENCE LEVEL (CL); DATA ARCHIVING; DATA SETS; GLOBAL OCEANS; INTER-DECADAL; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL SAMPLING; SPATIAL STRUCTURING; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; UPPER OCEAN; UPPER-OCEAN HEAT; UPPER-OCEAN TEMPERATURE; WORLD OCEAN;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COOLING; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL OCEAN; NOAA SATELLITE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SAMPLING; SPATIAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 45349083798     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI2002.1     Document Type: Article

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