Teleconnections, midlatitude cyclones and Aegean Sea turbulent heat flux variability on daily through decadal time scales

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1713-1723

  Romanski, Joy ^a   Romanou, Anastasia ^b   Bauer, Michael ^b   Tselioudis, George ^c  

^a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Aegean; Cyclone frequency; Deepwater formation; Teleconnections; Turbulent flux

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907684915     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0545-0     Document Type: Article

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