Tropical Cyclone Impacts on Coastal Regions: the Case of the Yucatán and the Baja California Peninsulas, Mexico

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1388-1402

  Farfán, Luis M ^a   D’Sa, Eurico J ^b   Liu, Kam biu ^b   Rivera Monroy, Victor H ^b  

^a Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada Unidad La Paz   (Mexico)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baja California Peninsula; Chlorophyll a; Mexico; Tropical cyclones; Yucat n Peninsula

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930819353     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-014-9797-2     Document Type: Article

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