Long-term salinity changes and implications for the global water cycle

International Geophysics

Volumn 103, Issue , 2013, Pages 727-757

  Durack, Paul J ^a,b   Wijffels, Susan E ^b   Boyer, Tim P ^c  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate model; Climate variability; Evaporation; History; Hydrography; Measurement; Precipitation; Rainfall; Salinity; Water cycle

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886432884     PISSN: 00746142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-391851-2.00028-3     Document Type: Chapter

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