Rising temperature and salinity fields to the north of the Almería-Orán Front during the past decade

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Plaza, Francisco ^a   Fraile Nuez, Eugenio ^a   Vargas Yáñez, Manuel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN HABITATS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES;

ISOBARIC SURFACES; ISOPYCNAL SURFACES; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; RISING TEMPERATURES; SALINITY FIELDS; THERMOHALINE; UPWARD TREND; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS; WATER-MASS PROPERTIES; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DETECTION METHOD; OCEANIC FRONT; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TIME SERIES; WARMING;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST);

EID: 69549091491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JC004066     Document Type: Article

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