Future climate change and upwelling in the California Current

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 15, 2003, Pages

  Snyder, Mark A ^a   Sloan, Lisa C ^a   Diffenbaugh, Noah S ^a   Bell, Jason L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

GREENHOUSE GASES; CALIFORNIA; CALIFORNIA CURRENT; FUTURE CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE-GAS FORCING; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING (RCM); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEASONALITY; WIND DRIVEN UPWELLING;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPWELLING; WIND FORCING;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0242274108     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017647     Document Type: Article

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