The Sea Level Budget Since 2003: Inference on the Deep Ocean Heat Content

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 209-229

  Dieng, Habib B ^a   Palanisamy, Hindumathi ^a   Cazenave, Anny ^a   Meyssignac, Benoit ^a   von Schuckmann, Karina ^b  

^a LEGOS   (France)

^b STATION MARINE D ENDOUME   (France)

Author keywords

Deep ocean warming; Ocean mass; Sea level rise; Thermal expansion

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; DATA HANDLING; SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL EXPANSION;

DEEP OCEAN; GLOBAL MEAN SEA LEVELS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OCEAN MASS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); THERMAL IMBALANCE;

SEA LEVEL;

EID: 84925467015     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: 15730956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-015-9314-6     Document Type: Review

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