Coupled ocean-atmospheric waves on the equatorial front

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 3863-3866

  Xie, Shang Ping ^a   Ishiwatari, Masaki ^a   Hashizume, Hiroshi ^a   Takeuchi, Kensuke ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVES; DEEP CONVECTION; DIMETHYL SULFIDE; EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL SIMULATIONS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; WIND;

PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER (PBL);

EID: 0032178964     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900014     Document Type: Article

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