North Africa-West Asia (NAWA) sea-level pressure patterns and their linkages with the Eastern Mediterranean (EM) climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 2003, Pages

  Paz, Shlomit ^a   Tourre, Yves M ^b,c   Planton, Serge ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b MEDIAS France   (France)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; PRESSURE EFFECTS; RAIN; SEA LEVEL;

SEA-LEVEL PRESSURE (SLP);

GEOPHYSICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE FORCING; CORRELATION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE;

AFRICA; ASIA; EURASIA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 17744414626     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017862     Document Type: Article

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