Effects of the North Sea Caspian pattern on surface fluxes of Euro-Asian-Mediterranean seas

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Gündüz, Murat ^a   Özsoy, Emin ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; HEAT FLUX; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WIND STRESS;

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS (EOF); MARINE CLIMATE; NORTH SEA CASPIAN PATTERN (NCP); SURFACE FLUX;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT FLUX; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WIND STRESS;

EID: 29344450644     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024315     Document Type: Article

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