How is the ocean filled?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Gebbie, Geoffrey ^a   Huybers, Peter ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; SEAWATER;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; CHANGING CLIMATE; DISCRETIZATIONS; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN SURFACES; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE AREA; SURFACE LOCATION; SURFACE REGION; TRANSIENT RESPONSE; WATER MASS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; DIFFUSION; HEAT FLUX; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAWATER; SURFACE AREA; WATER MASS;

EID: 79953196464     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046769     Document Type: Article

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