Uncertainties of the ocean heat content estimation induced by insufficient vertical resolution of historical ocean subsurface observations

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1383-1396

  Cheng, Lijing ^a,b   Zhu, Jiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENTHALPY; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

CONVEX SHAPES; HIGHER LATITUDES; OBSERVATION SYSTEMS; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ERROR ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPPER OCEAN; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84902147043     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00220.1     Document Type: Article

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