Detection of an observed 135 year ocean temperature change from limited data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2252-2258

  Hobbs, William R ^a   Willis, Joshua K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Detection and Attribution; Ocean observation; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC WARMING; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; DETECTION AND ATTRIBUTIONS; GLOBAL MEAN SEA LEVELS; OCEAN OBSERVATIONS; SEA LEVEL RISE; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES;

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MAGNITUDE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 84879914510     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50370     Document Type: Article

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