Shoaling of the off-equatorial south Indian Ocean thermocline: Is it driven by anthropogenic forcing?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Cai, Wenju ^a   Sullivan, Arnold ^a   Cowan, Tim ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

20TH CENTURY; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN; SURFACE WARMING; ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HEAT FLUX; SHOALING WAVE; SIMULATION; THERMOCLINE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 50849114531     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034174     Document Type: Article

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