Patterns of Indian Ocean sea-level change in a warming climate

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 546-550

  Han, Weiqing ^a   Meehl, Gerald A ^b   Rajagopalan, Balaji ^c   Fasullo, John T ^b   Hu, Aixue ^b   Lin, Jialin ^d   Large, William G ^b   Wang, Jih Wang ^a   Quan, Xiao Wei ^a   Trenary, Laurie L ^a   Wallcraft, Alan ^e   Shinoda, Toshiaki ^e   Yeager, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; HADLEY CELL; ICE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MELTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; THERMAL EXPANSION; WALKER CIRCULATION;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 77955212406     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo901     Document Type: Article

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