Tracking ocean heat uptake during the surface warming hiatus

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Liu, Wei ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a   Lu, Jian ^b  

^a San Diego   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT TRANSFER; HIATUS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; THROUGHFLOW; TRADE WIND;

HEAT; INDIAN OCEAN; SEA; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84962432720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10926     Document Type: Article

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