Modeling the Mediterranean Sea interannual variability during 1961-2000: Focus on the Eastern Mediterranean Transient

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Beuvier, J ^a,b,c   Sevault, F ^a   Herrmann, M ^a   Kontoyiannis, H ^d   Ludwig, W ^e   Rixen, M ^f   Stanev, E ^g   Branger, K ^b,c   Somot, S ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b ENSTA PARISTECH   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^f NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^g INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE DENSITY WAVES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; RECREATIONAL FACILITIES;

AEGEAN SEA; AIR SEA FLUX; ANTICYCLONIC EDDIES; ATLANTIC WATER; ATMOSPHERIC FLUXES; BLACK SEA; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DEEP WATER; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; FORCINGS; FORMATION RATES; FRESHWATER INFLOW; GIBRALTAR STRAIT; HEAT CONTENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; INTERMEDIATE LAYERS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; RIVER RUNOFFS; SALT CONTENT; SURFACE CIRCULATION; SURFACE COOLING; THERMOHALINE; VERTICAL STRATIFICATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTICYCLONE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EVAPORATION; FRESHWATER INPUT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RUNOFF; SALINITY; STRATIFICATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; WIND PROFILE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST);

EID: 77956081440     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005950     Document Type: Article

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