Unabated planetary warming and its ocean structure since 2006

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 240-245

  Roemmich, Dean ^a   Church, John ^b   Gilson, John ^a   Monselesan, Didier ^b   Sutton, Philip ^c   Wijffels, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT BALANCE; HOMOGENEITY; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84923915684     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2513     Document Type: Article

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