Climatic changes in the subtropical Southeast Atlantic: The St. Helena Island Climate Index (1893-1999)

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 59, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 321-337

  Feistel, Rainer ^a   Hagen, Eberhard ^a   Grant, Keith ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; RAIN; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WIND;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); UPWELLING SYSTEM;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRADE WIND; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BENGUELA CURRENT;

EID: 1542291466     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2003.07.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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