Clarifying the link between surface salinity and freshwater fluxes on monthly to interannual time scales

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3190-3201

  Vinogradova, Nadya T ^a   Ponte, Rui M ^a  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

freshwater flux; surface salinity

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TIME MEASUREMENT; WATER;

DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; EARTH'S CLIMATE; FRESHWATER FLUXES; INDIRECT METHODS; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; SURFACE SALINITIES; TERRESTRIAL RUNOFFS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ADVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; FRESHWATER; MIXING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; TIMESCALE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84882771672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20200     Document Type: Article

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