Comparison between weather buoy and comprehensive ocean-atmosphere data set wind data for the west coast of Canada

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 101, Issue C8, 1996, Pages 18377-18389

  Cherniawsky, Josef Y ^a   Crawford, William R ^a  

^a Institut Maurice Lamontagne   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COADS; DATA BUOYS; OCEAN/ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER BUOY; WIND DATA;

CANADA, WEST COAST;

EID: 0030463348     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96JC01687     Document Type: Article

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