Does the mediterranean sea influence the european summer climate? The anomalous summer 2003 as a test bed

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 7028-7045

  Tomassini, Lorenzo ^a   Elizalde, Alberto ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anomalies; Atmosphere ocean interaction; Climate variability; Coupled models; Mediterranean Sea; Regional models

Indexed keywords

ANOMALIES; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COUPLED MODELS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; REGIONAL MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EQUIPMENT TESTING; MOISTURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANOMALY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPORATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATIFICATION; SUMMER;

EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84867668536     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00330.1     Document Type: Article

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