MIMOC: A global monthly isopycnal upper-ocean climatology with mixed layers

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1658-1672

  Schmidtko, Sunke ^a,b   Johnson, Gregory C ^a   Lyman, John M ^a,c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

climatology; global; mapping; objective mapping; salinity; temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; MAPPING; OCEAN HABITATS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE;

CONDUCTIVITY TEMPERATURE DEPTHS; DENSITY STRUCTURES; GLOBAL; GLOBAL CLIMATOLOGY; OBJECTIVE MAPPING; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SALINITY; SURFACE MIXED LAYERS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; DATABASE; MAPPING METHOD; MIXED LAYER; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WATER MASS;

EID: 84878074398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20122     Document Type: Article

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