Industrial-era global ocean heat uptake doubles in recent decades

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 394-398

  Gleckler, Peter J ^a   Durack, Paul J ^a   Stouffer, Ronald J ^b   Johnson, Gregory C ^c   Forest, Chris E ^d  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; ENERGY BUDGET; GLOBAL OCEAN; HEAT FLUX; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

EID: 84962315306     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2915     Document Type: Article

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