Ocean heat content variability and change in an ensemble of ocean reanalyses

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 909-930

  Palmer, M D ^a   Roberts, C D ^a   Balmaseda, M ^b   Chang, Y S ^c   Chepurin, G ^d   Ferry, N ^e   Fujii, Y ^f   Good, S A ^a   Guinehut, S ^g   Haines, K ^h   Hernandez, F ^e,i   Kohl A ^j   Lee, T ^k   Martin, M J ^a   Masina, S ^l,m   Masuda, S ⁿ   Peterson, K A ^a   Storto, A ^l   Toyoda, T ^f   Valdivieso, M ^h   Vernieres, G ^o   Wang, O ^k   Xue, Y ^p   more..

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e MERCATOR OCÉAN   (France)

^f JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^g CLS   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^j UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^k CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^m ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

ⁿ JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^o NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^p NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Climate change; Data assimilation; Energy budget; Global warming; Heat content; Inter comparison; Observations; Ocean; Ocean models; Ocean reanalyses; Ocean state estimation; Temperature; Variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENERGY BUDGET; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84940875938     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2801-0     Document Type: Article

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