Interannual and decadal changes in equatorial wind stress in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans and the Eastern Ocean Coastal response

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1722-1729

  Clarke, Allan J ^a   Lebedev, Anna ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COASTAL ZONES; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL;

DECADAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY;

WIND STRESS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EAST COAST RESPONSE; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; WIND STRESS;

EID: 0031177727     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<1722:IADCIE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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