Annual amphidromic columns of sea temperature in global oceans from Argo data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2056-2062

  Chen, Ge ^a   Zhang, Haifeng ^a   Wang, Xuan ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

annual amphidromic column; Argo; sea temperature

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; SURFACE WATERS;

ARGO; DIRECT MEASURES; OCEANIC MIXED LAYERS; PHASE PROPERTIES; PRECISE MONITORING; SEA TEMPERATURE; SOLAR PENETRATION; TEMPERATURE CHANGES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARGO; DATA SET; GLOBAL OCEAN; MIXED LAYER; MONITORING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84898885111     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059430     Document Type: Article

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