Regional mesoscale air–sea coupling impacts and extreme meteorological events role on the Mediterranean Sea water budget

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 1029-1051

  Lebeaupin Brossier, Cindy ^a   Bastin, Sophie ^b   Béranger, Karine ^c   Drobinski, Philippe ^d  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^c ENSTA PARISTECH   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Air sea coupling; Extreme events; HyMeX; Med CORDEX; Mediterranean Sea; MORCE; Water budget

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939884988     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2252-z     Document Type: Article

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