Comparative analysis of the long-term variability of winter surface temperature in the Black and Aegean seas during 1982-2004 associated with the large-scale atmospheric forcing

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1349-1359

  Kazmin, Alexander S ^a   Zatsepin, Andrei G ^a   Kontoyiannis, Harilaos ^b  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean sea; Atmospheric forcing; Black sea; Correlation analysis; Decadal changes; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

AEGEAN SEA; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BLACK SEA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECADAL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; DECADAL VARIATION; HEAT TRANSFER; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TELECONNECTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WIND FORCING; WINTER;

AEGEAN SEA; BLACK SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 77954850007     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1985     Document Type: Article

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