Seasonal heat budgets of the Red and Black seas

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Matsoukas, C ^a,b   Banks, Andy C ^c   Pavlakis, K G ^b,d   Hatzianastassiou, N ^b,e   Stackhouse Jr , Paul W ^f   Vardavas, I ^b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^d TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^f NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTHALPY; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINE WATER;

AERODYNAMICS; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY FLUX; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEAT BUDGET; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MODELING; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SOLAR RADIATION;

AFRICA; BLACK SEA; EGYPT; EURASIA; NORTH AFRICA; RED SEA [(GVR) EGYPT];

EID: 37349069208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JC003849     Document Type: Article

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