Deep ocean heat content changes estimated from observation and reanalysis product and their influence on sea level change

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Kouketsu, Shinya ^a   Doi, Toshimasa ^a   Kawano, Takeshi ^a   Masuda, Shuhei ^a   Sugiura, Nozomi ^a   Sasaki, Yuji ^a   Toyoda, Takahiro ^b   Igarashi, Hiromichi ^a   Kawai, Yoshimi ^a   Katsumata, Katsuro ^a   Uchida, Hiroshi ^a   Fukasawa, Masao ^a   Awaji, Toshiyuki ^a,c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; ENTHALPY; SEA LEVEL;

ANTARCTICA; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DATA FIELDS; DEEP OCEAN; DEEP WATER; GLOBAL OCEAN; HEAT BALANCE; HEAT CONTENTS; OBSERVATION SYSTEMS; REANALYSIS; SEALEVEL CHANGE; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; DECADAL VARIATION; DEEP WATER; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEAT BALANCE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SAMPLING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79952459893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006464     Document Type: Article

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