Regional differences in winter sea level variations in the Baltic Sea for the past 200 yr

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 60 A, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 384-393

  Hünicke, Birgit ^a,b   Luterbacher, Jürg ^c   Pauling, Andreas ^d   Zorita, Eduardo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; DECADAL VARIATION; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BALTIC SEA;

EID: 39049112298     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2007.00298.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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