Estimating global ocean heat content changes in the upper 1800m since 1950 and the influence of climatology choice

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1945-1957

  Lyman, John M ^a,b   Johnson, Gregory C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPENDABLE BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS; INTEGRAL VALUES; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; PROFILING FLOAT; SAMPLING DEPTHS; SAMPLING UNCERTAINTIES; UNDER-SAMPLED; VERTICAL SEPARATION;

ENTHALPY; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANOMALY; ARGO; CLIMATOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL OCEAN; HEAT CAPACITY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

EID: 84897588520     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00752.1     Document Type: Article

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