A review of global ocean temperature observations: Implications for ocean heat content estimates and climate change

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 450-483

  Abraham, J P ^a   Baringer, M ^b   Bindoff, N L ^c,d,e   Boyer, T ^f   Cheng, L J ^g   Church, J A ^d   Conroy, J L ^h   Domingues, C M ^e   Fasullo, J T ⁱ   Gilson, J ^j   Goni, G ^b   Good, S A ^k   Gorman, J M ^a   Gouretski, V ^l   Ishii, M ^m   Johnson, G C ^f   Kizu, S ⁿ   Lyman, J M ^f,o   Macdonald, A M ^p   Minkowycz, W J ^q   Moffitt, S E ^r,s   Palmer, M D ^k   Piola, A R ^t   Reseghetti, F ^u   Schuckmann, K ^v   Trenberth, K E ⁱ   Velicogna, I ^w,x   Willis, J K ^x   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^h GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^m METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

ⁿ TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^o UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^p WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^q 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^t UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^u ENEA   (Italy)

^v IFREMER   (France)

^w UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^x CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Argo float; Earth energy balance; expendable bathythermograph; global warming; ocean heat content; thermosteric sea level rise

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; ENERGY BALANCE; ENTHALPY; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; THERMAL EXPANSION; TIDE GAGES;

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; ANTHROPOGENIC WARMING; ARGO FLOAT; CONDUCTIVITY TEMPERATURE DEPTHS; EXPENDABLE BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES; THERMOSTERIC SEA LEVEL;

SEA LEVEL;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARGO; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY BALANCE; GLOBAL OCEAN; GLOBAL WARMING; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL EXPANSION;

EID: 84884383193     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: 19449208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rog.20022     Document Type: Article

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