Climate change impacts on coastal and pelagic environments in the southeastern Bay of Biscay

Climate Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 307-332

  Chust, Guillem ^a   Borja, Ángel ^a   Caballero, Ainhoa ^a   Irigoien, Xabier ^a   Sáenz, Jon ^b   Moncho, Roberto ^a   Marcos, Marta ^c   Liria, Pedro ^a   Hidalgo, Julia ^d   Valle, Mireia ^a   Valencia, Victoriano ^a  

^a MARINE RESEARCH DIVISION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^d TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

Author keywords

Basque Country; Bay of Biscay; Climate change; Coast; Precipitation; Review; Saltmarsh; Sea level; Temperature

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANOMALY PATTERNS; BASQUE COUNTRY; BAY OF BISCAY; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE PROJECTION; COAST; COASTAL WATERS; DAILY RAINFALL; FIXED BOUNDARIES; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; HEAT WAVES; HISTORICAL OBSERVATION; INTER-TIDAL SEAGRASSES; MEAN SEA LEVEL; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN LAYERS; OCEAN WARMING; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SALT MARSHES; SANDY BEACH; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEA TEMPERATURE; WAVE CLIMATES;

CLIMATOLOGY; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; HYDROGEOLOGY; OCEAN STRUCTURES; SEA LEVEL;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ACIDIFICATION; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE GAS; LITERATURE REVIEW; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; RAINFALL; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEAGRASS; STREAMFLOW; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BASQUE COUNTRY; BAY OF BISCAY; SPAIN;

EID: 80052502576     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00914     Document Type: Article

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