Global Ocean Integrals and Means, with Trend Implications

Annual Review of Marine Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-33

  Wunsch, Carl ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Freshwater exchange; Future observations; Global averages; Global integrals; Heat uptake; Inhomogeneous signals; Sea level change

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANTHROPOGENIC SIGNALS; FUTURE OBSERVATIONS; GLOBAL AVERAGES; GLOBAL INTEGRALS; HISTORICAL OBSERVATION; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; SAMPLING DENSITIES; SEALEVEL CHANGE;

SEA LEVEL;

ALTIMETRY; FRESHWATER; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL OCEAN; HEAT BALANCE; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER EXCHANGE;

SEA WATER;

CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; HISTORY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; SEA; TEMPERATURE; TRENDS;

CLIMATE; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; OCEANOGRAPHY; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84954239714     PISSN: 19411405     EISSN: 19410611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-122414-034040     Document Type: Article

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