Climatologically significant effects of space-time averaging in the North Atlantic sea-air heat flux fields

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2743-2763

  Gulev, Sergey K ^a,b  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR/SEA INTERACTION; HEAT FLUX; PARAMETERIZATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0031420762     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<2743:CSEOST>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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