Sentences with phrase «global ocean heat content beginning»

With GRACE retrievals of surface mass commencing in 2002 and ARGO - derived estimates of global ocean heat content beginning a few years later, an era of unprecedented diagnostic capabilities began.

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In the present study, satellite altimetric height and historically available in situ temperature data were combined using the method developed by Willis et al. [2003], to produce global estimates of upper ocean heat content, thermosteric expansion, and temperature variability over the 10.5 - year period from the beginning of 1993 through mid-2003...