Satellite images of upwellings and cold filament dynamics as transient effects of violent air-sea interactions downstream from the island of Sardinia (western Mediterranean Sea)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C2, 1998, Pages 3013-3031

  Salusti, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UPWELLING;

ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SARDINIA;

EID: 0032519266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97jc01914     Document Type: Article

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