Is the Mediterranean Sea surface height variability predictable?

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 33, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 225-238

  Sušelj, Kay ^a   Tsimplis, Michael N ^b   Bergant, Klemen ^a,c  

^a Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia   (Slovenia)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Atmospheric forcing on sea surface height; Multivariate models; Sea surface height

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SEA LEVEL; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ATMOSPHERIC INDICES; CROSS-VALIDATION; LINEAR STATISTICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT (SSH);

METEOROLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ALTIMETRY; ANNUAL CYCLE; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; TOPEX-POSEIDON; WIND VELOCITY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 39749201493     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2006.12.001     Document Type: Article

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