Salinity drift of global Argo profiles and recent halosteric sea level variation

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 108, Issue , 2013, Pages 42-55

  Wang, Xidong ^a   Han, Guijun ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Wu, Xinrong ^a   Zhang, Xuefeng ^a  

^a Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

Author keywords

Argo salinity drift; Atlantic Decadal Oscillation; ENSO; Indian Ocean Dipole; Pacific Decadal Oscillation; Sea level

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CALIBRATION; CLIMATOLOGY; TROPICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARRAY FOR REAL-TIME GEOSTROPHIC OCEANOGRAPHY SALINITY DRIFT; ATLANTIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; EL NIÑO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL ARRAYS; HEIGHT ANOMALY; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; REAL-TIME GEOSTROPHIC OCEANOGRAPHIES; SALINITY FIELDS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

SEA LEVEL;

ANOMALY; ARGO; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; ATLAS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GLOBAL OCEAN; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84880346972     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2013.06.005     Document Type: Article

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