Fifty-Year trends in global ocean salinities and their relationship to broad-scale warming

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 4342-4362

  Durack, Paul J ^a   Wijffels, Susan E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIASING; GLOBAL OCEAN; HISTORICAL ARCHIVE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; MEAN FLOW; NEUTRAL DENSITIES; OCEAN BASINS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; PRESSURE SURFACE; SALINITY CHANGE; SALINITY FIELDS; SEA SURFACES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SURFACE SALINITIES; SURFACE WARMING; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE-SALINITY RELATIONSHIP;

AMPLIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 77958092441     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3377.1     Document Type: Article

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