Full-depth temperature trends in the northeastern Atlantic through the early 21st century

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 7971-7979

  Desbruyeres D G ^a   McDonagh, E L ^a   King, B A ^a   Garry, F K ^b   Blaker, A T ^a   Moat, B I ^a   Mercier, H ^c  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

hiatus; North Atlantic; observations; temperature

Indexed keywords

COOLING; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGY; NAVIGATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE;

HIATUS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTHEASTERN ATLANTIC; OBSERVATIONS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WATER-MASS PROPERTIES;

HEAT FLUX;

COOLING; DATA SET; GLOBAL WARMING; GYRE; HEAT FLUX; HIATUS; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEA SURFACE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 84923359419     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061844     Document Type: Article

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