Anomalous rainfall and associated atmospheric circulation in the northeast Spanish Mediterranean area and its relationship to sediment fluidization events in a lake

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Soler, Marianna ^a   Serra, Teresa ^a   Colomer, Jordi ^a   Romero, Romualdo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUIDIZATION; LAKES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; BAROCLINIC WAVES; SEDIMENT DISTRIBUTION;

RAIN;

FLUIDIZATION; LAKES; RAIN; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BAROCLINIC WAVE; FLUIDIZATION; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LOW PRESSURE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN WATER; RAINFALL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; VERTICAL MIGRATION;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERONA [CATALONIA]; IBERIAN PENINSULA; LAKE BANYOLES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33847652119     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004810     Document Type: Article

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