The effect of the NAO on sea level and on mass changes in the Mediterranean Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 944-952

  Tsimplis, M N ^a   Calafat, F M ^a   Marcos, M ^b   Jorda G ^b   Gomis, D ^b   Fenoglio Marc, L ^c   Struglia, M V ^d   Josey, S A ^a   Chambers, D P ^e  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d ENEA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

GRAVITY MEASUREMENT; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; MASS COMPONENTS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SEA LEVEL TRENDS; SEALEVEL CHANGE; WINTER NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION;

SEA LEVEL;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; GRACE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; WIND FIELD;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84878935518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20078     Document Type: Article

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