Mesoscale, seasonal and interannual variability in the Mediterranean Sea using a numerical ocean model

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 66, Issue 2-4, 2005, Pages 321-340

  Fernández, Vicente ^a   Dietrich, David E ^a   Haney, Robert L ^b   Tintoré, Joaquín ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Interannual variability; Mediterranean sea; Ocean modelling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL DISPERSION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 23444441007     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2004.07.010     Document Type: Article

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