Dense water formation in the Gulf of Lions shelf: Impact of atmospheric interannual variability and climate change

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 2092-2112

  Herrmann, Marine ^a   Estournel, Claude ^a   Déqué, Michel ^b   Marsaleix, Patrick ^a   Sevault, Florence ^b   Somot, Samuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dense water cascading; Interannual variability; Modeling

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DENSE WATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC MATTER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER COLUMN;

GULF OF LION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 50849135169     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2008.03.003     Document Type: Article

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