Quantifying underestimates of long-term upper-ocean warming

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 999-1005

  Durack, Paul J ^a   Gleckler, Peter J ^a   Landerer, Felix W ^b   Taylor, Karl E ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ENERGY BUDGET; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT BUDGET; LONG-TERM CHANGE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; UPPER OCEAN; WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84908550680     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2389     Document Type: Article

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