Quantile trends in Baltic Sea level

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Barbosa, Susana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CURVE FITTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER LEVELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; BALTIC SEAS; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; QUANTILE REGRESSIONS; TIDE GAUGES; WIND PATTERNS;

SEA LEVEL;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OCEAN WAVE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGE; WIND PROFILE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 60149092927     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035182     Document Type: Article

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