Direct observations of atmospheric boundary layer response to SST variations associated with tropical instability waves over the eastern equatorial Pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 15, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 3379-3393

  Hashizume, Hiroshi ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^b   Fujiwara, Masatomo ^c   Shiotani, Masato ^c   Watanabe, Tomowo ^d   Tanimoto, Youichi ^e   Liu, Timothy W ^a   Takeuchi, Kensuke ^f  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Frontier ObserResSysGlobal Change   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; SURFACE WAVES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND;

TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVES (TIW);

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; BOUNDARY LAYER; OCEANIC FRONT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WIND; TEMPERATURE INVERSION;

(EQUATORIAL EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0012499978     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<3379:DOOABL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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