Predominant atmospheric and oceanic patterns during coastal marine heatwaves

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2017, Pages

  Schlegel, Robert W ^a   Oliver, Eric C J ^b,c   Perkins Kirkpatrick, Sarah ^d   Kruger, Andries ^e,f   Smit, Albertus J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Climate change; Coastal; Code:R; in situ data; Marine heatwaves; Ocean; Reanalysis data

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032173246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00323     Document Type: Article

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