Patterns of change in sea surface temperature in the North Atlantic during the last three decades: Beyond mean trends

Climatic Change

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 419-431

  Taboada, Fernando González ^a   Anadón, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITY; CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; DEGREE OF NON-LINEARITY; FUTURE CLIMATE; LOCAL PATTERNS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTHERN LATITUDES; PHYSICAL CHANGES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEASONAL CYCLE; SPATIAL PATTERNING; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HEURISTIC METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AVHRR; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EXTREME EVENT; ISOTHERM; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATIFICATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPORAL CYCLE; TREND ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84867665940     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0485-6     Document Type: Article

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