Ocean climate change fingerprints attenuated by salt fingering?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 2009, Pages

  Johnson, Gregory C ^a   Kearney, Kelly A ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATERS; CLIMATE STUDIES; DIFFUSIVE MIXING; DOUBLE DIFFUSIVE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INDIAN OCEAN; OCEAN CHANGES; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; SALINITY CHANGE; SALINITY STRATIFICATION; SUBTROPICAL WATER; TEMPERATURE STRATIFICATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; CLIMATE CHANGE; FINGERING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SALINITY; STRATIFICATION;

EID: 72049106358     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040697     Document Type: Article

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