Deep and intermediate layer warming in the western Mediterranean: Water mass changes and heaving

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Zunino, Patricia ^a   Vargas Yanez M ^a   Moya, Francina ^a   Garcia Martinez M C ^a   Plaza, Francisco ^b  

^a Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN HABITATS;

DENSITY SURFACES; INTERMEDIATE LAYERS; ISOBARIC SURFACES; ISOPYCNAL SURFACES; LEVANTINE INTERMEDIATE WATERS; TEMPERATURE TRENDS; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

INTERMEDIATE WATER; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; SALINITY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WARMING; WATER MASS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 72149092685     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039578     Document Type: Article

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