Recent Bottom Water Warming in the Pacific Ocean

Gregory C. Johnson¹, Sabine Mecking², Bernadette M. Sloyan³and Susan E. Wijffels³

¹NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA 98115-6349, USA
²Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
³CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA

J. Climate., 20 (21), 5365–5375, 2007.
Copyright 2007 American Meteorological Society. Further electronic distribution is not allowed.

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