Spatio-temporal upwelling trends along the Canary upwelling system (1967-2006)

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1146, Issue , 2008, Pages 320-337

  Gomez Gesteira M ^a   De Castro, M ^a   Alvarez I ^a   Lorenzo, M N ^a   Gesteira, J L G ^a,b   Crespo, A J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b Centro Tecnologico del Mar Fundacion CETMAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Canary upwelling system; Trends; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AUTUMN; CONFERENCE PAPER; LATITUDE; OCEANIC REGIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASHORE; SEAWATER UPWELLING; SUMMER; WIND; WINTER;

EID: 57249105501     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1446.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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