Sensitivity of global upper-ocean heat content estimates to mapping methods, XBT bias corrections, and baseline climatologies

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 4817-4842

  Boyer, Tim ^a   Domingues, Catia M ^b,c,d   Good, Simon A ^e   Johnson, Gregory C ^f   Lyman, John M ^f,g   Ishii, Masayoshi ^h   Gouretski, Viktor ⁱ   Willis, Josh K ^j   Antonov, John ^k   Wijffels, Susan ^l   Church, John A ^l   Cowley, Rebecca ^l   Bindoff, Nathaniel L ^b,c,d,l  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^d ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science   (Australia)

^e MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^f NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^h JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^j CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^l CSIRO   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Climate variability; Heat budgets fluxes; Oceanic variability; Physical meteorology and climatology; Trends; Variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ENTHALPY; MAPPING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; HEAT BUDGETS/FLUXES; OCEANIC VARIABILITIES; TRENDS; VARIABILITY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BASELINE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; CORRECTION; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; MAPPING METHOD; METEOROLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84977513531     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0801.1     Document Type: Article

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