Origins of heat and freshwater anomalies underlying regional decadal sea level trends

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 563-567

  Fukumori, Ichiro ^a   Wang, Ou ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; ocean circulation; sea level rise

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WATER;

GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; REGIONAL SEA LEVEL CHANGES; SEA LEVEL RISE; TEMPERATE REGIONS; THERMOSTERIC SEA LEVEL; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN;

SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE FLUX; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WATER MASS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84878189287     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50164     Document Type: Article

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