Climate change and upwelling: Response of Iberian upwelling to atmospheric forcing in a regional climate scenario

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 11-12, 2013, Pages 2813-2824

  Miranda, P M A ^a,c   Alves, J M R ^a   Serra, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Atmosphere Ocean interaction; Climate Change; RACMO; ROMS; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPWELLING;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84878106888     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1442-9     Document Type: Article

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