Keyword(s)

Ocean temperature and salinity contributions - global and regional sea-level changes, oceans, central component of climate systems - storing, transporting quantities of heat, expendable bathythermograph (XBT) - and upper-ocean temperature profiles, World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) - quality, global, top- to bottom survey of ocean temperature and salinity, estimating steric sea-level change - using ocean syntheses, Simple Ocean Data Analysis (SODA) model, Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission, 20th-century climate and project 21st-century climate simulations - using coupled AOGCMs, coupled AOGCMs, mechanisms behind - global average and regional sea-level changes, increased spatial resolution, in resolving continental shelves and semi-enclosed seas