Changes in the global hydrological-cycle inferred from ocean salinity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 2010, Pages

  Helm, Kieran P ^a,b   Bindoff, Nathaniel L ^a,b,c,d   Church, John A ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d Wealth from Oceans Flagship   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

DENSITY SURFACES; GLOBAL DATASETS; GLOBAL PATTERNS; HIGH LATITUDES; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; LOW LATITUDES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEAN SALINITY; SALINITY CHANGE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WATER CYCLE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; EVAPORATION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SALINITY; UPPER OCEAN;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77957700626     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044222     Document Type: Article

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