Influence of atmospheric circulation on turbulent air-sea heat fluxes over the Mediterranean Sea during winter

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Papadopoulos, Vassilis P ^a   Kontoyiannis, Harilaos ^a   Ruiz, Simón ^b   Zarokanellos, Nikolaos ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGY;

AIR-SEA HEAT FLUX; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC PATTERN; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC INDEX; COMBINED EFFECT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; INDEPENDENT MODE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUBBASINS; TRANSIENT EVENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BOUNDARY LAYER; CORRELATION; HEAT FLUX; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; TURBULENT FLOW; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EAST); MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84859454668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007455     Document Type: Article

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