El Niño-Southern Oscillation impacts translated to the watershed scale: Estuarine salinity patterns along the Texas Gulf Coast, 1982 to 2004

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 72, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 247-260

  Tolan, James M ^a  

^a TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

El Ni o Southern Oscillation; empirical orthogonal function analysis; estuary; Fourier analysis; salinity; Texas coast; time series

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHED;

GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847037059     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2006.10.018     Document Type: Article

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