Can the Topex/Poseidon altimetry data be used to estimate air-sea heat flux in the North Atlantic?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 139-142

  Wang, Liping ^a   Koblinsky, Chester ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; ANEROID ALTIMETERS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; ESTIMATION; HEAT FLUX; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR SEA HEAT FLUX; ALTIMETRY DATA; BATHYTHERMOGRAPH DATA;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

AIR-SEA FLUX; AIR/SEA FLUX; ALTIMETRY; HEAT; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; TOPEX/POSEIDON;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0030906339     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03695     Document Type: Article

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