Seasonal heat budget of the Mediterranean Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1-15

  Matsoukas, C ^a,b   Banks, A C ^c   Hatzianastassiou, N ^a,d   Pavlakis, K G ^a,e   Hatzidimitriou, D ^a,b   Drakakis, E ^a,e   Stackhouse, P W ^f   Vardavas, I ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^e TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^f NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPORATION; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOLAR RADIATION; TURBULENT FLOW; WATER WAVES;

HEAT BUDGET; SOLAR RADIATION; WATER MASS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 31644445830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JC002566     Document Type: Article

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