Upper ocean warming pattern in the past 50 years

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 87-95

  Yasunaka, Sayaka ^a   Kimoto, Masahide ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Global mean ocean temperature; Global warming; Ocean subsurface temperature; Warming pattern

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EKMAN TRANSPORT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND STRESS;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84872869798     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-012-0159-z     Document Type: Article

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