Climatic changes in the Aegean Sea influence the Eastern Mediterranean thermohaline circulation (1986-1997)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1617-1620

  Theocharis, Alexander ^a   Nittis, Kostas ^a   Kontoyiannis, Harilaos ^a   Papageorgiou, Emanuel ^a   Balopoulos, Efstathios ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

AEGEAN SEA; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDRODYNAMICS; SALINITY; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATER MASS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC SHIFTS; COMBINED EFFECT; DENSE WATERS; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; TEMPERATURE DROPS; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS;

EID: 0033153690     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900320     Document Type: Article

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