Deep ocean heat uptake as a major source of spread in transient climate change simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 22, 2009, Pages

  Boe J ^a   Hall, A ^a   Qu, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODEL; DEEP OCEAN; GLOBAL SURFACE WARMING; HIGH LATITUDES; MIXED LAYER; POLICY MAKING; SURFACE WARMING; TIME-SCALES; TRANSIENT CLIMATE CHANGE;

GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

SIMULATORS;

BASELINE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEEP SEA; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; POLICY MAKING; TIMESCALE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 72049132333     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040845     Document Type: Article

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