Improved estimates of upper-ocean warming and multi-decadal sea-level rise

Nature

Volumn 453, Issue 7198, 2008, Pages 1090-1093

  Domingues, Catia M ^a   Church, John A ^a,b   White, Neil J ^a,b   Gleckler, Peter J ^c   Wijffels, Susan E ^a   Barker, Paul M ^a   Dunn, Jeff R ^a  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^b ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; ENERGY BUDGET; ESTIMATION METHOD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; WARMING;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEAT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; VOLCANO;

EID: 45749146649     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07080     Document Type: Article

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