Decadal variability of net water flux at the Mediterranean Sea Gibraltar Strait

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 100, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-10

  Fenoglio Marc, L ^a   Mariotti, A ^b   Sannino, G ^c   Meyssignac, B ^d   Carillo, A ^c   Struglia, M V ^c   Rixen, M ^e  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ENEA   (Italy)

^d LEGOS   (France)

^e WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gibraltar net water flux; Ocean mass change; Sea level; Water cycle

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; GIBRALTAR STRAIT; GIBRALTARS; LONG-TERM TREND; LONG-TERM VARIABILITY; MASS CHANGE; MASS VARIATIONS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MODULATING EFFECT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE COUPLED MODEL; PRECIPITATION AND RUNOFF; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATION; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER RUNOFFS; SEA SURFACES; WATER CYCLE; WATER FLUX; WATER MASS FLUX;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EVAPORATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RUNOFF; SEA LEVEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; EVAPORATION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER DISCHARGE; RUNOFF; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WATER MASS;

BOSPORUS STRAIT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

EID: 84867615139     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.08.007     Document Type: Article

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