The timescale and extent of thermal expansion of the global ocean due to climate change

Ocean Science

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 179-184

  Marcelja S ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; EDDY; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL OCEAN; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL EXPANSION; TIMESCALE;

EID: 80051521913     PISSN: 18120784     EISSN: 18120792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/os-6-179-2010     Document Type: Article

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