Temporal evolution of the water mass properties during the Eastern Mediterranean transient (EMT) in the Aegean Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Sayn, Erdem ^a   Beşiktepe, Şükrü T ^b  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; STREAM FLOW; TIME SERIES;

AEGEAN SEA; DATA SETS; DENSE WATERS; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; LOW TEMPERATURES; SURFACE SALINITIES; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; WATER MASS; WATER-MASS PROPERTIES; WINTER MONTHS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEASONALITY; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TIME SERIES; WATER MASS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 77958177473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005694     Document Type: Article

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