2005 Caribbean mass coral bleaching event: A sea surface temperature empirical orthogonal teleconnection analysis

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Simonti, Alicia L ^a   Eastman, J Ronald ^b  

^a Clark Labs   (United States)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BLEACHING; CLEANING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME SERIES;

ANALYTICAL PROCEDURE; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; CLIMATE INDEX; CORAL BLEACHING; GLOBAL OCEAN; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; TELECONNECTIONS;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CORAL BLEACHING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL OCEAN; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 78649282733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006233     Document Type: Article

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