Climate teleconnections at monthly time scales in the Ligurian Sea inferred from satellite data

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 66, Issue 2-4, 2005, Pages 157-170

  Orfila, A ^a,b   Alvarez A ^a   Tintore J ^a   Jordi, A ^a   Basterretxea, G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ligurian Sea; South Pacific and North Atlantic variability; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; OSCILLATIONS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SPECIFIC HEAT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

GEOGRAPHICAL PROXIMITY; SEA LEVEL ANOMALY (SLA); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

TELECONNECTION;

LIGURIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 23444462655     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2004.07.011     Document Type: Article

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