Abstract Satellite observations are used to establish the dominant magnitudes, scales, and mechanisms of intraseasonal variability in ocean dynamic sea level ( ? ) Persian Gulf over 2002–15. Empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis applied altimetry data reveals a basinwide, single-signed fluctuation that contributes importantly variance at monthly decadal time scales. An EOF Gravity Recove...

Balochi is known in the literature of area studies and linguistics as a series of dialects, for the most part mutually intelligible, differing mainly in vocabulary and the degree of influence from neighboring languages, mainly Persian (cf. Elfenbein 1989a, 1989b). It is spoken by three to five million people in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Oman and the Persian Gulf states, Turkmenistan, East Af...

Coral communities in the Persian/Arabian Gulf (PAG) withstand unusually high salinity levels and regular summer temperature maxima of up to ∼35 °C that kill conspecifics elsewhere. Due to the recent formation of the PAG and its subsequent shift to a hot climate, these corals have had only <6,000 y to adapt to these extreme conditions and can therefore inform on how coral reefs may respond to gl...

abstract the present work aims to determine fauna and abundance of hermit crabs in the southern qeshm island. for these aims, after preview of coastal zone, eight stations were selected in the intertidal zones of southern qeshm island. sampling in these stations was conducted during the dec. 2013. totally, 605 specimens of hermit crabs were studied and calculated. for identification and accurat...

Sea surface currents are often modeled using numerical models without adequately addressing the issue of model calibration at regional scale. The aim this study is to calibrate MIKE 21 ocean for Persian Gulf and Oman improve sea obtained from model. was performed through data assimilation with altimetry hydrographic observations variational assimilation, where weights objective functions were d...