Comparison of tropical ocean-atmosphere fluxes with the NCAR community climate model CCM3

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3047-3058

  Collins, William D ^a,c   Wang, Junyi ^a   Kiehl, Jeffrey T ^a,c   Zhang, Guang J ^a   Cooper, Daniel I ^b   Eichinger, William E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; HEAT FLUX; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYER; OCEAN FLUX; TROPICS;

EID: 0031433497     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<3047:COTOAF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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