Sensitivity of air-sea fluxes to SST perturbations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2431-2446

  Rivin, Ilya ^a,b   Tziperman, Eli ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA FLUX; GCM; HEAT FLUX; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0031421515     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<2431:SOASFT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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