Synchrony in relationships between the North Atlantic Oscillation and water chemistry among Sweden's largest lakes

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 4 I, 2004, Pages 1191-1201

  Weyhenmeyer, Gesa A ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; CLIMATE EFFECT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 3843072953     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.4.1191     Document Type: Article

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