Pacific origin of the abrupt increase in Indian Ocean heat content during the warming hiatus

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 445-449

  Lee, Sang Ki ^a,b   Park, Wonsun ^c   Baringer, Molly O ^b   Gordon, Arnold L ^d   Huber, Bruce ^d   Liu, Yanyun ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL OCEAN; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; HIATUS; LA NINA; NET RADIATION; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THROUGHFLOW; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDONESIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84987786738     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NGEO2438     Document Type: Article

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