Aegean sea water masses during the early stages of the Eastern Mediterranean Climatic Transient (1988-90)

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1841-1859

  Gertman, Isaac ^a   Pinardi, N ^b   Popov, Y ^c   Hecht, A ^a  

^a ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; FLOW OF WATER; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; STATISTICS; SURVEYING;

CLIMATIC TRANSIENT; DEEP WATER; SEA WATER MASSES; WATER MASS FORMATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DEEP WATER; FORMATION MECHANISM; INTERMEDIATE WATER; SEAWATER; WATER MASS;

CRETAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 33750042250     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO2940.1     Document Type: Article

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