The coastal ocean response to the global warming acceleration and hiatus

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Liao, Enhui ^a,b,c   Lu, Wenfang ^a,b,c   Yan, Xiao Hai ^a,b,c   Jiang, Yuwu ^a,c   Kidwell, Autumn ^b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COLD STRESS; COOLING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LATITUDE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84947248241     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep16630     Document Type: Article

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