Multi-decadal variability and trends in the temperature of the northwest European continental shelf: A model-data synthesis

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 106, Issue , 2012, Pages 96-117

  Holt, Jason ^a   Hughes, Sarah ^b   Hopkins, Joanne ^a   Wakelin, Sarah L ^a   Penny Holliday, N ^a   Dye, Stephen ^c   González Pola, César ^d   Hjøllo, Solfrid Sætre ^e,f   Mork, Kjell Arne ^e   Nolan, Glen ^g   Proctor, Roger ^a,k   Read, Jane ^a   Shammon, Theresa ^h   Sherwin, Toby ⁱ   Smyth, Tim ^j   Tattersall, Graham ^a   Ward, Ben ^a,l   Wiltshire, Karen Helen ^j  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^f BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^g MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

^h Department of Local Government and the Environment ^*  (United Kingdom)

ⁱ SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^j ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^l MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANALYSIS OF DATA; ANNUAL TRENDS; COASTAL OCEAN; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DATA-SOURCES; EUROPEAN SHELF; LONG WAVES; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MODEL SIMULATION; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NEAR-BOTTOM TEMPERATURE; OPEN OCEAN; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TIME-SCALES;

HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AVHRR; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DECADAL VARIATION; HEAT FLUX; LONGWAVE RADIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPEN OCEAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TIME SERIES; TIMESCALE;

ISLE OF MAN; PORT ERIN BAY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84868349874     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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