Artifacts in variations of ocean heat content induced by the observation system changes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 7276-7283

  Cheng, Lijing ^a   Zhu, Jiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Argo; ocean heat content; sampling; shift; ship

Indexed keywords

ENTHALPY; SAMPLING; SEA LEVEL; SHIPS;

ARGO; CLIMATE INDICATORS; GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE; HISTORICAL OBSERVATION; OBSERVATION SYSTEMS; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; OCEAN OBSERVATION SYSTEMS; SHIFT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ARRAY; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT BALANCE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SAMPLING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

EID: 84911361246     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061881     Document Type: Article

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